Screw the purely cosmetic stuff....your bike looks great the way it is. Go for the performance mods. Get an intake, exhaust, and programer (SEST, TT, Power Commander). Best bang for your buck.

 

Mate,

Firstly, fantastic paint job.

As for a grand well spent? Have you considered buying a street in Detroit. Sorry bad joke.

Spend maybe a little more and buy a combination of the following;

Vance and Hines (black big radius two into two) pipes, a Power Commander and a Big Sucker air filter and only then will you truly start enjoying the `Harley Davidson' experience.

Enjoy the fatty.

Cheers
Speedybrother Sydney Australia
2010 Fatbob

 

Here is what I'm in the process of doing with $1k

1) Buy slip-ons super cheap from someone who bought them, used them for a season and then put them on the shelf to collect dust. I just paid $60 for an entire tommy-gun exhaust with cycle shacks that I'm going to have powered black.
2) Splurge on J&S jack for wrenching on the bike and doing your own oil changes.
3) Different seat. I always thought my stock seat wasn't bad until I sat on another Bob that had something different. That seat blows. I'm leaning towards a C&C seat.
4) Replace the stock Fat Bob taillight with the LED model. I don't mind the fender with the light filling it. However once you put that in you'll realize putting smoked signal lenses on is a must.

 

Thanks/ great feedback here. I just put a couple more hundred miles on her today. I feel like the performance upgrades are definitely the way to go. I have only had the bike for a few weeks but she feels a bit slow in higher gears.

1584cc...not sure how many horsepower that comes out to but what can I expect to gain (in HP roughly) if I replace the pipes & do the mudmod intake??

I realize that I have a lot to learn, yet.

 

i put the dyna pillow look seat on my 09 fat bob. i think it looks better and fits the flow of the bike better than the sundowner...very comfortable too. i also have a windvest windshield which is sleek and looks great on the fat bob vs. the stock windshield from harley. i have black vance and hines short shot pipes..sound great and not too expensive. also dyna rigid mount saddlebags.

 

my favorite uprades so far are rush slip-ons, 6 inch pull-back risers and tri bar taillight.

 

i also put some se cams in and my bike is as fast as a se2008 110 road king.....
a friend of me has got one....
we are so close on the speed thing....
so i'm pretty happy with that upgrade....

so air filter,rase tuner,exhaust and i also did the cams....

 

New intake, programmer, new pipes. Best mod you can make to bring the motor to life.

 

I have a brand new set of chromed Harley Davidson lowers for that bike. It has the official HD stamp. I am going to do something else and will accept $150 + the trade of your Fat Bob lowers in like new condition. I am going to strip the coating anyhow. You pay shipping to and from. All is original packaging and the foam tape has not been removed. Just call the # below.

 

The mods I would make would be

1) Tank Lift (and its Cheap)
2) Pipes
3) Fuel Processor
4) Free flowing air filter

If you play your cards right all of these could be purchased for $1000.00, and if you are willing to do the work yourself could be done in less than 1 weekend, probably less than a day, depending on how many beer breaks you take.