Turbo install done!
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Turbo install done!
Got my Trask turbo system installed and done. I am going to tell you all right now its the best money you can spend for the return that you get in terms of preformance.
First on the menu was a guy with a S&S 117 must feel kind of sad to get walked on by a guy who has his wife on the back. For a snack after lunch was some *** clown who told me I wasted a bunch of money on my air cleaner cover. I just smiled and told him let do it at the next light. I told the wife to wave bye at him right before the light changed. His 1200 sporty just didnt have enough.
Anyway if you are going to do a major build this winter call or look up TRASK PERFORMANCE first. I am going back out to ride now.
Beman
First on the menu was a guy with a S&S 117 must feel kind of sad to get walked on by a guy who has his wife on the back. For a snack after lunch was some *** clown who told me I wasted a bunch of money on my air cleaner cover. I just smiled and told him let do it at the next light. I told the wife to wave bye at him right before the light changed. His 1200 sporty just didnt have enough.
Anyway if you are going to do a major build this winter call or look up TRASK PERFORMANCE first. I am going back out to ride now.
Beman
pics? how was the install? any pics of the install? what size turbo did you go with? who did the exhaust work? what set up you running in the bike? you got to give us more info than that.
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I dont have a lot of pics i have been riding it so here is one from the phone.Okay its got 255 cams. Replaced a bunch of bearing in the case and for the cams. Its a 96 inch motor running 8 lbs of boost. So intake and all that is custom and it comes with high hp/torque clutch as well. Thundermax with a 2 bar sensor from TRASK and wide band O2 sensors. The tunner is absolute hands down sick with the two bar sensor and wide band o2 sensors. TRASK did the exhaust work and tuning as well.
JCK one quick point. I am going to make two assumptions. One is you pay retail and two a shop has to do the work. I saw the parts you list about your bike there. Here is what I come up with(again reatil). 106 kit $725 big boy head work starts at 300 dollars so i will cut you some slack and say you got the base port and plosih for $300, andrews cams $289 Fat cat exhaust $650. I am guessing you had a tunner installed so let say it was a chep one for $400 with tuning time. So were looking at $3365 in parts if you paid retail. That does not include a bearing kit for your cam job gakets or oil or push rods. I would guess a shop would charge 15 hours min to do this work at 70/hr thats just over 1000 dollars. So the avarge guy is looking at about $4365 for the motor that you got.
Now if you do the work your self you can take out a grand but that is the same for buying the turbo its a 8-10 hour install. So really work time is a wash.
You are making 103 horse and 113 tq I am making signifcatly more than at min and way way way more than that depending on how we set the boost. So dollar per horse power we are sitting about the same.
JCK one quick point. I am going to make two assumptions. One is you pay retail and two a shop has to do the work. I saw the parts you list about your bike there. Here is what I come up with(again reatil). 106 kit $725 big boy head work starts at 300 dollars so i will cut you some slack and say you got the base port and plosih for $300, andrews cams $289 Fat cat exhaust $650. I am guessing you had a tunner installed so let say it was a chep one for $400 with tuning time. So were looking at $3365 in parts if you paid retail. That does not include a bearing kit for your cam job gakets or oil or push rods. I would guess a shop would charge 15 hours min to do this work at 70/hr thats just over 1000 dollars. So the avarge guy is looking at about $4365 for the motor that you got.
Now if you do the work your self you can take out a grand but that is the same for buying the turbo its a 8-10 hour install. So really work time is a wash.
You are making 103 horse and 113 tq I am making signifcatly more than at min and way way way more than that depending on how we set the boost. So dollar per horse power we are sitting about the same.
very nice set up man, what about the lower end, did you do a timken bearing or the lefty to handle that power? any crank work... if not are you worried about it?
i love the look of that thing! have always wanted to run a turbo!
i love the look of that thing! have always wanted to run a turbo!
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I will get some better pictures tonight when i get home. Anyway the bottom end is an interesting question. My crank has some long miles on it it sounds and looked damn good when we put the camera in it so we left it this time when we did the install. I am going to put some miles on it this fall see how things look and if it is showing any problems we will split it race crank it and do a 110" kit during the snow season. I did do a timken kit on the cams cuz thats an easy one to get it.
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did you check you run out on it? you had your cank out and did not replace the bearing? why open up the bottom end if you are not going to true it and do a bearing replacement... now a 110 with that turbo = so sick!!!
