Aerocharger
#11
GaugeMods
Nothing fancy and taken before high res digital cameras. These are from our trips to Sturgis. Mine is the Gold and white with and without the sidecar. My brothers is the red one. He has the same matching sidecar I have. He has 2 kids that would travel with him as well.
The turbos are mounted inside the left fairing knda out of sight made for a real sleeper in the late 90's before big inch motors.
The one with my family we were getting ready for Sturgis 94. Also have a matching trailer I pulled with the family. Three women on a motorcycle and you need all the room you can get. Plus at that time we had all our camping gear in the trailer to save money on motels. I weighed it one time on the way to Sturgis and with the trailer and the 4 of us it scaled at 2765 lbs.
That was the reason I went with the turbos on both of our bikes. At the time I found about 100 hp would pull the sidecar and trailer with four people at interstate speeds just fine but in the mid 90's big inch motors which were 96 inch even from S&S were not proven or reliable and to hop up an 80 incher to get 100 hp resulted in the same thing. The turbo bolted on to a stock 80 inch and gave me 100 hp and 100 tq. I installed 5 other kits on dressers a Heritage and a wide glide for friends of mine.
There a lot of fun to ride without the sidecars. But now the vrod makes it seem pretty slow.
Dennis
Nothing fancy and taken before high res digital cameras. These are from our trips to Sturgis. Mine is the Gold and white with and without the sidecar. My brothers is the red one. He has the same matching sidecar I have. He has 2 kids that would travel with him as well.
The turbos are mounted inside the left fairing knda out of sight made for a real sleeper in the late 90's before big inch motors.
The one with my family we were getting ready for Sturgis 94. Also have a matching trailer I pulled with the family. Three women on a motorcycle and you need all the room you can get. Plus at that time we had all our camping gear in the trailer to save money on motels. I weighed it one time on the way to Sturgis and with the trailer and the 4 of us it scaled at 2765 lbs.
That was the reason I went with the turbos on both of our bikes. At the time I found about 100 hp would pull the sidecar and trailer with four people at interstate speeds just fine but in the mid 90's big inch motors which were 96 inch even from S&S were not proven or reliable and to hop up an 80 incher to get 100 hp resulted in the same thing. The turbo bolted on to a stock 80 inch and gave me 100 hp and 100 tq. I installed 5 other kits on dressers a Heritage and a wide glide for friends of mine.
There a lot of fun to ride without the sidecars. But now the vrod makes it seem pretty slow.
Dennis
#12
#14
Boxed it up and sent it to Aerocharger themselves as no one in Aussy knows about these units. Plus I want the pros to do the job and even though postage a bloody expensive it's well worth it to have my horsepower back again.....I really really miss the arm pulling, grin making feeling I get at 10lbs! (It was even more insane at 20lbs)
#15
Boxed it up and sent it to Aerocharger themselves as no one in Aussy knows about these units. Plus I want the pros to do the job and even though postage a bloody expensive it's well worth it to have my horsepower back again.....I really really miss the arm pulling, grin making feeling I get at 10lbs! (It was even more insane at 20lbs)
They have made some nice improvements in the design that make them almost bullet proof. hope you get it back soon. What did they charge for the rebuild if you don't mind me asking. The one I have is in need of some work. Just don't ride it that much since I have the one on the Vrod and my brothers is a backup since he got a new Street glide.
Dennis
#16
I only posted it on Friday so it will rake a couple of weeks to get to the USA and then a week i recon for them to assess it. Fingers crossed I have not buggered it too much. I am thinking of asking them about semi-sponsorship or cutting me a deal on parts or somthing as i want to fly the Aerocharger Flag at the Aussy Land Speed Trials next year.
Theu have a price list on the Aerocharger wecsite for the repair costs for various componets etc. Ill try to hunt down the URl and post it for yah.
Theu have a price list on the Aerocharger wecsite for the repair costs for various componets etc. Ill try to hunt down the URl and post it for yah.
#17
Theu have a price list on the Aerocharger wecsite for the repair costs for various componets etc. Ill try to hunt down the URl and post it for yah.[/QUOTE]
Didn't see that when I went to the site. Found the repair Price list. Thanks and good luck with the racing when yo get it back and Winter is done down under.
Dennis
Didn't see that when I went to the site. Found the repair Price list. Thanks and good luck with the racing when yo get it back and Winter is done down under.
Dennis
#18
Are the bike turbos a veriable vane just like the sled ones? I ride mountain sleds in the winter, a few of the guys I ride with are running Aerochargers. They are very strong units and require lower boost levels than other makes to get same hp numbers. Very impressive to run a 250hp 2 stroke on a 500lb machine. Reliable power too. Im sure their bike units are as good as it gets
#19
Are the bike turbos a veriable vane just like the sled ones? I ride mountain sleds in the winter, a few of the guys I ride with are running Aerochargers. They are very strong units and require lower boost levels than other makes to get same hp numbers. Very impressive to run a 250hp 2 stroke on a 500lb machine. Reliable power too. Im sure their bike units are as good as it gets
#20
Aerocharger
I exchanged some notes with the staff at Aerocharger and it seems an HD kit is in the making. It looks like the target is 08 and later bikes and they said check back soon. Soon is a relative term but it sounds very promising. I'd love to see Aerocharger get back into this space adding more choice for v-twin FI.