Woods TW555
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From: Bartlett, tennessee
Woods TW555
I'm a newb to the site and plan on doing a lot of reading but have a ? about this cam. Lookin at it for my 08 96", do you have to do any head work or is this a bolt in? I'll hang up and listen, preciate the help!
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speaking from experience with that cam, yes the compression will have to be bumped up to 10.2 to have it perform correctly on that 96er. mine was a dead turd between 2000 to 3200 rpms than it came alive to the rev limiter. especially when riding two up cruising at 50 mph and twisting the throttle to pass a car! Hillside fix that problem for me.
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I have the Woods 555's in my stock 13 Limited. Stock heads, valve springs, bore and pistons at 9.6:1 CR flowing through V&H Power Duals and Monster Rounds with a PCV tuner. I am happy, with the results. I wanted a little more mid to top end grunt without changing the heads or pistons and I got it.
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In a 96, I'd do the 48 if it were my bike.
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I can get the cam pretty cheap so that was my angle. I have true duals, PC & stage 1 already installed and wanted to bump it up a little w/o a lot of major work. We do a lot of traveling so wanted a little more get up that's all. I am one to red light race with guys too so I won't lie that I'd like to thump their 103's red to red! So if I do the cams which adj rods are best, alum or steel? S&S or Andrews?
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I had aluminum Revtech adjustables with .600" lift springs and over time the end of the pushrod barrell started to get stress cracks, I now have S&S steel adjustables.
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I can get the cam pretty cheap so that was my angle. I have true duals, PC & stage 1 already installed and wanted to bump it up a little w/o a lot of major work. We do a lot of traveling so wanted a little more get up that's all. I am one to red light race with guys too so I won't lie that I'd like to thump their 103's red to red! So if I do the cams which adj rods are best, alum or steel? S&S or Andrews?
We use nothing but S&S 4130 steel pushrods here.
Scott