Hi, I just bought a 2012 883 Iron and Im looking to increase power and give my bike a custom look.. Is there anything you other sportsters riders can suggest?

 

Does nothing for looks, but a jug swap is probably the cheapest way to increase your output if you do the work yourself.

 

Best bang for your buck

 

Define "cheap" and "easy". Reliability figure into it too? Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick 2.

 

Don't forget the intakes, exhaust and dyno tune. Thought about the jug swap but realized that I'd be better off doing the heads and cams at the same time. When I am ready, I will have the stuff to do it with since I am exploring tuners and have the intake and exhaust.

 

What is your budget?

Generally I suggest doing intake and pipes first. They will be beneficial no matter what modification route you go. If you want, you can then go the 1200/1250 route.

For a tune, I'd suggest a PCIII or better kind of solution (PCV, PV SERT, etc). They are better tuning options than XIED/Fuelpak and yet flexible enought to grow if you continue to mod. There are pros and cons to the different solutions so you'd need to decide which would suit you best.

 

Welcome to HDF from the UK. You need to spend some time looking around in here and get a feel of the forum. Your question is so open we can't give you any useful answers until you have a better idea of what you would like to do.

The best advice is get out there and ride your bike as it is for a while. There is no need to race to change it!

 

Yep, it's called "break-in" - welcome & just put some miles on your new scoot...congrats!

 

Is your goal really to increase power, or is it to make your bike accelerate faster?

The absolute cheapest thing you can do is lighten your bike by removing the unnecessary pounds. The extreme to which you go is up to you entirely here, but every pound counts. Exhaust shields, fenders, reflectors, mirrors, lights, passenger pegs, they add up to decreased acceleration.

In addition to the other options mentioned in this thread previously, you could change your pulleys out - a larger one on the rear or a smaller one on front, or both. This could give you quite a boost on the accel rate, but at a loss of top end speed, and your bike will rev higher at a given speed, but it is a good go fast trick that for some reason not many sporty guys do, but a large percentage of my vrod bros do employ.

 

I can't imagine changing an 883 gearing for more low end torque at the cost of higher rpms. I'd never consider doing that.