hey scadoodle, thanks again for the imput. i tore into it this weekend, installed the new burly narrow 12" apes and the coil relocation kit. ill get some photos up soon. also think i found the sputtering problem, i went through and dielectric greased all the connections, fuses and terminals while doing the install, when i got to the positive terminal on the battery to remove it for the coil install, the pos battery tender attatchment the previous owner installed had a crack in the loop that attactches to the battery and had popped off leaving a bit of a gap for the rest of the positive connectors to move around on the bolt attaching them to the batteries connection. son of a bitch lol man that was dumb, but at least it was simple (hopefully... its winter and wont be able to run 'er around till late april/may) reflecting back to the A.S.S. comment, seems appropriate

. I also bought the Kuryakyn Pro-R hypercharger and installed it. didn't like it at all, i mean it looks nice but with the peanut tank it stuck out farther than i like. pulled it off putting the low profile KnN on it. Anyone want to buy a hypercharger for 200 bucks + shipping

i'm not gonna use it, have it on craigslist but figured id throw it out there.