5500 Rev Limit?
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From: Coachella Valley
5500 Rev Limit?
I bought my FatBob a few months ago. Actually it is my wife's bike. When I rode this bike it always seemed a little quicker than my Triumph TBird. However, sometimes, we race a little when taking off from a light. She swears that my bike is faster. So the other day, I took her bike out and found that the rev limiter is set at 5500 rpm. We bought this bike barely used, it was a rental. Did they set the limiter low? Maybe to keep people from abusing the bike when it was rented? or is that the normal limit.?
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I bought my FatBob a few months ago. Actually it is my wife's bike. When I rode this bike it always seemed a little quicker than my Triumph TBird. However, sometimes, we race a little when taking off from a light. She swears that my bike is faster. So the other day, I took her bike out and found that the rev limiter is set at 5500 rpm. We bought this bike barely used, it was a rental. Did they set the limiter low? Maybe to keep people from abusing the bike when it was rented? or is that the normal limit.?
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http://www.harley-performance.com/stage-1.html
Stage one raises your rev limiter to 6200. I never approach that without shifting first.
Stage one raises your rev limiter to 6200. I never approach that without shifting first.
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I have the rev limit on mine set to 6200 using my tuner. With a stock motor it's useless to even get near that since it's well out of the powerband. And since I don't want to know when the valves start to float I keep it under 6000 anyway.
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Yup, that's stock. Assuming the engine's stock, what I've heard from a few people with a lot of experience working on Harleys is that you can set the rev limiter to 6300 before you start to worry about valve float.
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Like the others said, there's nothing past 5500 with the stock motor, if you're hitting the limiter, shift earlier.
As far as valve float, I used to turn my old 95" to 6500+ regularly with stock springs and never had any float. New bagger se tuner stage 1 maps are at 6400 right from harley, don't know why.
As far as valve float, I used to turn my old 95" to 6500+ regularly with stock springs and never had any float. New bagger se tuner stage 1 maps are at 6400 right from harley, don't know why.