I am sure someone here has done this; thinking about mild cams to avoid any head work. I'll do the work myself more than likely; can you tell me parts costs and if someone sells this in kit packaging. Appreciate your responses. Thanks

 

Not much direction here for you as I've got chain driven cams, but one question, why? I switched to Woods 6-6 cams, and had a good dyno done and I'm right at 90 HP, and 104 TQ, and I'm very pleased with the bike's performance for not having to tear the engine apart for headwork etc...etc... How come you're stuck on gear driven cams? Not that I've got anything negative to say about gear driven cams either.

 

In the '07 later bikes, there really is NO reason to swap out chains for gear drive cams. They hydraulic chain tensioners are light years ahead of the old spring tensioners. Save yourself some $$$.

 

2008 Fatboy
Put in a Woods 7H at 1K miles almost 3 years ago.
Put in Woods 400-6, 2-3 months ago.
Maybe 15K on the bike. --I'm old and its either HOT of Cold--

No wear on the chain tenshiners. Barely feel the marks.
And this with set up heads with woods Springs and some pretty good cams.

Do run Biesley spring now--Zippers Shim from the 1K mark.
Oil pressure at start up is 58# running on the relief. Running oil pressure is 44# @ 2500RPM. Idle is 12#.
So always good pressure on the tensioners.
Amsoil 20-50

No neew for cam gears I feel.

 

My understanding is that to fit gear cams you need to check your crankshaft run-out, which has to be better than Harley builds its crankshafts! You have to be lucky with the crank in your motor, unless you want to remove and true it better, to suit gear cams. So gears are not easy to bolt-in. I have a TC88 with the early chain tensioners and I will replace them with the same hydraulic ones in your TC96 when the time comes. I suggest you chose a set of replacement chain-driven cams, as the others have suggested.

 

On 06-up Dyna's, and all 07 models-up, there is no need to go to a gear drive, as the OE set-up does work quite well.
Scott

 

Really good news to hear, I wasn't real sure how reliable the HD tensioner was from personal experience. Sounds as though you all have been in there and everything is fine...good to know. So now, any recommendations as to a good 'mild cam' set-up?

 

You could go with the SE 203, SE 204, SE 255's, Woods 6-6 (which is what I've got and am very happy with), and there's a few Andrews as well as a few others. I'm biased since I've got them and I love the performance for some bolt in's, but for me Woods 6-6's are the cat's ***! I don't think you can go wrong with any of the above listed though.

 

Thanks, think I might be looking at some cams in the future!

 

CR275 cams are bolt in and run really well. stock push rods will work, but if you go with adjustable you will not have to pull tops off of heads. cut existing push rods with bolt cutters and install SE chrome moly rods from Harley. Buy these from Surdyke and get 20% off. These cams are very strong from 2000rpm up and will run with the Harley STG. 1 download