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Dec 11, 2016 | 10:44 AM

#31

T^2

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Originally Posted by Mchad

Maybe if your changing jets on a carb... I don't know a tuner of a modern EFI Harley that doesn't either require a tuner married to your ECM or a license fee to use the shops.

My point was that you don't - as far as I know - have to own any tuner yourself to take your bike into a shop and have a custom tune made via a dyno. They can create your tune and flash your ECM with their own equipment (unless this particular part of the world has changed since I last took note). Perhaps there are cost associated with the shops license fees when using their equipment, but that cost would be rolled into the overall cost they charge your for dyno'ing your bike. That cost is likely made transparent to the bike owner getting the service done (unless the shop provides a detailed/itemized invoice). Is there savings to be had if you already have a PV? Perhaps. Would make sense if it eliminates the charge to use the shop's license. However, I wouldn't know. The last dyno work I had done was in 2001.

Oh... and that 2001 dyno work I had done was on a EFI bike. If memory serves, no PV's or the like back then.

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Dec 11, 2016 | 12:15 PM

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Mchad

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ok, if you say so

Dec 11, 2016 | 10:26 PM

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NORTY FLATZ

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Originally Posted by confederate

With all due respect, 14.6 is lean.

Especially with gas laced with 10% ethanol...

Dec 11, 2016 | 10:33 PM

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NORTY FLATZ

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Originally Posted by WH1_T-type

I've got a 2016 Low Rider S that I'm looking at adding Two Brothers exhaust to. The local shop wants just shy of 2K to get the exhaust, power commander V, install, and dyno tune it.

For under 1K I can get the exhaust and either a FP3 or PC V myself and install it all and do the butt dyno.

I will NOT be doing any more upgrades until the engine is dead so even though the FP3 doesn't have a lot of expandability, it seems like it would do what I need it to and it would be YEARS before I would need anything else.

My goal is just better sound and performance gains would be nice, but as long as I'm not losing Anything it isn't a priority.

Is it really worth paying all that money for a dyno?

Since you're in Sandy Eggo, Lee's Cycle Racing has a dyno, and they set up suspensions too.