Cam choice EV13 or EV27
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From: Hominy Valley, Hillbillachia
Well, now you have. I had the EV-27 in my bike for a brief time and pulled it. valvetrain noise was unacceptable to me, and any gain abaove 2500 RPM was negated by loss below 2000 RPM (or so I remember-it was 20 years ago).
The 27 sounds like what the OP may have had. I just didn't like to wind the Softail tight enough, often enough to benefit from it.
The 27 sounds like what the OP may have had. I just didn't like to wind the Softail tight enough, often enough to benefit from it.
I have a EV27 in my 97 RK because some fukin indie talked me into it. "Best cam for that motor" he said. "Everybody does that and loves it" he said.
Then I paid him to put the cam in and afterward, I asked about remapping the power commander and he looked me right in the eye and said "you donlt need to do that, that cam won't get no more air in there".
That was the end of my indie relationship and the beginning of me doing all my own ****.
As for the EV27, sure, it's great if you like to wind your motor out like a rice burner, and don't want any pull until you hit 2800 rpm. I haven't bothered to change it because that is kind of a "bling bike" now. If I rode it every day, it would have a EV13 for sure.
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Agreed.
I have a EV27 in my 97 RK because some fukin indie talked me into it. "Best cam for that motor" he said. "Everybody does that and loves it" he said.
Then I paid him to put the cam in and afterward, I asked about remapping the power commander and he looked me right in the eye and said "you donlt need to do that, that cam won't get no more air in there".
That was the end of my indie relationship and the beginning of me doing all my own ****.
As for the EV27, sure, it's great if you like to wind your motor out like a rice burner, and don't want any pull until you hit 2800 rpm. I haven't bothered to change it because that is kind of a "bling bike" now. If I rode it every day, it would have a EV13 for sure.
I have a EV27 in my 97 RK because some fukin indie talked me into it. "Best cam for that motor" he said. "Everybody does that and loves it" he said.
Then I paid him to put the cam in and afterward, I asked about remapping the power commander and he looked me right in the eye and said "you donlt need to do that, that cam won't get no more air in there".
That was the end of my indie relationship and the beginning of me doing all my own ****.
As for the EV27, sure, it's great if you like to wind your motor out like a rice burner, and don't want any pull until you hit 2800 rpm. I haven't bothered to change it because that is kind of a "bling bike" now. If I rode it every day, it would have a EV13 for sure.
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Just my 2 cents for my 97 EG
If you do a fair amount of 2 up riding as we have the EV13 is a great choice or equivalent. Nowadays not so much but the EV13 has still done me well.
A friend put an EV27 in and it did well. Then latter he bumped the compression up. That really woke his bike up nicely.
Good luck either way ya go
WP
If you do a fair amount of 2 up riding as we have the EV13 is a great choice or equivalent. Nowadays not so much but the EV13 has still done me well.
A friend put an EV27 in and it did well. Then latter he bumped the compression up. That really woke his bike up nicely.
Good luck either way ya go
WP
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From: Hominy Valley, Hillbillachia
I should probably stipulate that I am running mine with stock compression, which was a choice I made because I was actually using the bike for touring at the time.
I'm quite certain that I would like the EV27 much more if I brought the CR up to around 10:1. That may be in the cards for next winter.
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I should probably stipulate that I am running mine with stock compression, which was a choice I made because I was actually using the bike for touring at the time.
I'm quite certain that I would like the EV27 much more if I brought the CR up to around 10:1. That may be in the cards for next winter.
I'm quite certain that I would like the EV27 much more if I brought the CR up to around 10:1. That may be in the cards for next winter.
Last edited by RLH3175; Mar 11, 2017 at 04:22 PM.
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I should probably stipulate that I am running mine with stock compression, which was a choice I made because I was actually using the bike for touring at the time.
I'm quite certain that I would like the EV27 much more if I brought the CR up to around 10:1. That may be in the cards for next winter.
I'm quite certain that I would like the EV27 much more if I brought the CR up to around 10:1. That may be in the cards for next winter.
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I know this has been covered many times. Yes it's a subjective choice, and that's why I am posting this question.
Big Bertha, my 1984 Evo powered FLHTC, has developed quite a bit of lifter noise. I am going to install new lifters and a new cam. Years ago, I had a 1991 FLHT. Put close to 60K on it with an Andrews cam, adjustable push-rods etc. I cannot recall whether the cam was a 13 or a 27. What I can recall is the bike really came alive at around 3,000 RPM, and was MUCH better for 2-up cruising at 75 MPH, or right around 3,500 RPM.
So..... in your opinion.....did I have a EV13 or EV27?
Current ride has big sucker air cleaner, CV Keihen carb and Paughco fishtails.
Thanks in advance-
Mike
Big Bertha, my 1984 Evo powered FLHTC, has developed quite a bit of lifter noise. I am going to install new lifters and a new cam. Years ago, I had a 1991 FLHT. Put close to 60K on it with an Andrews cam, adjustable push-rods etc. I cannot recall whether the cam was a 13 or a 27. What I can recall is the bike really came alive at around 3,000 RPM, and was MUCH better for 2-up cruising at 75 MPH, or right around 3,500 RPM.
So..... in your opinion.....did I have a EV13 or EV27?
Current ride has big sucker air cleaner, CV Keihen carb and Paughco fishtails.
Thanks in advance-
Mike
I asked this in an e-mail to Andrews. Told 'em too that I was a big guy, damn near like two-up on a bike. They told me the EV13 was what I wanted and needed. So I got it. Haven't put it in yet as I can't find any decent video on the 'net for replacing a cam on a '98 evo bike (the shop manual isn't a lot of help either but I'm more of a 'see it and do it' than a 'read it and do it' type. Can't afford to have someone else do it at all, heh. Got the S&S quickee pushrods, new bearing, .050 shim and gaskets, just need a little more info on how to do the change and I can do it.
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Originally Posted by Yamaharley
Wasn't there a kit back in the day that included a ev-13, a mikuni carb, and maybe something else. Sold for baggers so they could pass big rigs without downshifting?