[kkinderen]

I purchased the stage iv with the bike but put 2000 miles on the bike while waiting on the parts. During that time I started second guessing whether I even needed the upgrade. It felt that good. But I went ahead and did it anyway.

The result was more tame than I expected. I have very little understanding of how to read the chart but it seems odd that it was checked only between 3400 and 5600 RPM. Shouldn't it have started below 2000 and reach at least 6500?

Seat of the pants, seems like no change up to 3000 RPM and then it feels it could keep pulling until lights peed is reached. I haven't hit 5000 RPM on the road yet.

I have plans to go to another shop just to get another opinion but curious what you might think.

For the parts list and the chart from the catalog see my album.

 

[kkinderen]

I was hoping for some good advice. Thanks. I'm off to another shop next Thursday to discuss options. Reliability is a concern for me.

 

[kkinderen]

Back from the non-dealer shop. They didn't tell me anything different than you guys told me but I don't think I'm ready to change out the cam yet. I did replace the head pipes as I had previously planned. I also dropped the SE tuner for a TTS MasterTune II. The new run didn't show much of a change (as expected) but I'm getting nowhere near the heat coming up from under the bike. The ride feels great even from a stop but at 3000 RPM it's like a switch is thrown.

I think my next step, before trying to clean up the low RPM curve is to spend some money and effort on bullet proofing. I need to kind of plan things in packages I can afford. I should have that together in a few days.

I asked the dealer about the chart. The high cutoff he said was because of the speed limiter. Not covering the lower RPMs - a mistake. They offered to re-run but I took a pass.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[kkinderen]

I did 500 miles on Sunday from Brunswick, MD down 340, Ft. Valley Road, 211 (and Cooters for lunch), then south on Skyline and Blue Ridge to Lynchburg and back via 29. The bike rode like an absolute dream and as much as I could expect.

I'm not so good at feeling differences. I thought the HP/TQ differences might actually relate to two different kinds of dynos. I think I've heard that SuperFlow generally reads higher than the same bike on a DynoJet. If you look at the SuperFlow chart, the initial is actually the same setup as the final from the dynojet run on this post.

My only complaints about the original dyno and setup were that the chart started too late and ended too early and that I didn't feel much of a difference over stock (explained by my lack of sensitivity I guess).

I'm keeping the SE cam for a while and looking at projects to bulletproof the engine. Then, maybe later, I might look at some more performance steps. Maybe. I plan to have this bike for a very long time so I want to take things slowly and do them for the right reason.