With my engine build can someone give me some suggestions on what Cam can I change to, to make my bike sound better at Idle...A Stock Bike with Rinehart's on it, sounds better at low RPM and Idle that mine does... It is just pathetic the way it sounds..I know that this might seem to be a trivial matter to lots of you all, but it is a big deal to me...I hate to start it up when someone asks to hear it, because the way it sounds...Lets not get it twisted, because it runs Strong, like a Raped Ape, but sounds like a stock bike off the showroom floor...It is a 01 Road King with the MM FI System and makes 95HP with 103TQ...It has as S&S Full Header with 4" Rinehart's...I have had several different combinations of Headers and Exhaust systems and nothing has changed much with the Idle Sound...I even have the Reinhardt, Competition Baffle installed...I have the S&S 510 G cams installed in my build...95" SE Flat Top Pistons... 9:7:1 Compression... .030 Head Gasket...82 CC Combustion Chambers...1.900 Dia. Intake Valve... 1.610 Dia. Exhaust Valve...590 Lift Beehive Valve Springs...195/205 Exhaust Port Flow... 265/270 Intake Port Flow....There you have it.....So, What Cam can I put in this motor combo that will give me some Exhaust Lope, so that it will not sound like a Stocker...

 

Not gonna happen with a fuel injected motor. Want some lope? Sell your bike and buy a cammed Evo motor or a Shovel. That's your only two options.

 

Yep, my evo S&S 111 makes people jump when it fires off, and hits like a sum beach,
the '09 sounds like an air compressor.

 

The HQ 120 in my 06 Ultra has a pretty good lope going on at the stock 1,000 rpm idle setting. I'm running the HQ 0033G cams, there are cams out there which will lope pretty decent in a FI bike, SE204 sounds pretty good. But there are also quite a few cams that don't sound much different than stock in a FI bike.

FWIW, I've never been one to choose a cam based on sound, I choose a cam based on where it fits my expectations on the build.

 

Yep, I gotta disagree with the first two responses. While I agree that a fuel injected Twin Cam is never going to sound like a shovelhead or Evo, I've heard some pretty choppy idling FI Twin Cams. Even my 103 HO has a pretty good lope when it idles down, certainly much more so than a stock 96 or standard stock 103.

 

The MM has a separated throttle body, and doesn't cross talk.
A nicely built Delphi FI TC sounds good,
just stated mine sounds like an air compressor,,,for now