BaD 96"
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From: Passaic County, NJ
The 7's have a bit more lift than the 6's, right? Should be a good seat of the pants test.
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the cams make a hell of a jump, i did it then heads very quickly after, I have as much as i can do unless i do a big bore.I used adjustable push rods and change my cam bearings out for the se ones. that is huge like double the rollers. but loner is still the man!
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what are your dyno results looking like 96 w cams vs w/ heads. Im so on the fence about head work on my cammed 96", but have such a hard time justifying about $1000 installed for heads when that would get me a chrome front end and chrome outer primary.
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Where are you buying your chrome that $1000 only gets you forks and a primary? I got my chrome front end kit off ebay for less than half of the cost of new, and the kit was BRAND NEW. A chrome outer primary can probably be had fairly cheap on ebay with people selling their take-off's because they put a black one on.
Also, replacing the heads is something uou can do if you can operate a ratchet and/or open end wrenches. Sending them off to a company like bigboyz and spending $300-$400 on the headwork (increase compression slightly, port job etc). Reinstalling the heads isn't rocket science.
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Most cams have a later closing intake valve, that bleeds off compression, getting the compression right for the cams will make a big difference in performance. It was worth it to me. My bike is kinda bad for a 96".
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Talked with Zippers for a while today looking for headwork advice. Love dealing with Zippers they have always shot me straight. More or less told me with the 575 cams I wont see the large gains w head work because the cam was designed to be ideal w stock heads and stock compression. I said thanks for the advice and I will prolly save my money... Then as always, I got the pitch about the Zippers Thunder Max being gods gift to tuners.
J shull I travel to the Kansas City area pretty often during the summer, Ill look you up and we can run our 96" to see how stuff measures up.
J shull I travel to the Kansas City area pretty often during the summer, Ill look you up and we can run our 96" to see how stuff measures up.
