What do you do about heat?
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What do you do about heat?
Hey guys. I don't normally wander in here because frankly, you're all way above my pay grade.
But I have a question that you guys should be able to answer. With as hot as my '14 RK gets with it's 103, I can imagine how hot a 110" motor gets. What do you guys do to combat all that heat without making major modifications and spending a bunch more money than you've already spent?
But I have a question that you guys should be able to answer. With as hot as my '14 RK gets with it's 103, I can imagine how hot a 110" motor gets. What do you guys do to combat all that heat without making major modifications and spending a bunch more money than you've already spent?
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Reality is you want to get rid of cat in head pipe and richen up the fuel mixture.
Suggest you remove the cat from the headpipe or spend a few bucks and get a catless header. If you want to keep stock look, consider Fullsac or Fuel Moto headers that re-use stock heatshields.
Fullsac also offers replacement baffles for stock mufflers. Good low cost way to upgrade exhaust.
To richen fuel mixture you will need a tuner. Both Fullsac and Fuel Moto sells them and will load you up a canned map that should be pretty close in order to save you the cost of a dyno tune. It's a canned map, but they both have a good library of maps if you are using a set-up they dynotuned a bike for.
Cooling fans are great, but best bang is to get rid of the lean fuel mixture set at the factory to pass emissions
Suggest you remove the cat from the headpipe or spend a few bucks and get a catless header. If you want to keep stock look, consider Fullsac or Fuel Moto headers that re-use stock heatshields.
Fullsac also offers replacement baffles for stock mufflers. Good low cost way to upgrade exhaust.
To richen fuel mixture you will need a tuner. Both Fullsac and Fuel Moto sells them and will load you up a canned map that should be pretty close in order to save you the cost of a dyno tune. It's a canned map, but they both have a good library of maps if you are using a set-up they dynotuned a bike for.
Cooling fans are great, but best bang is to get rid of the lean fuel mixture set at the factory to pass emissions
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Reality is you want to get rid of cat in head pipe and richen up the fuel mixture.
Suggest you remove the cat from the headpipe or spend a few bucks and get a catless header. If you want to keep stock look, consider Fullsac or Fuel Moto headers that re-use stock heatshields.
Fullsac also offers replacement baffles for stock mufflers. Good low cost way to upgrade exhaust.
To richen fuel mixture you will need a tuner. Both Fullsac and Fuel Moto sells them and will load you up a canned map that should be pretty close in order to save you the cost of a dyno tune. It's a canned map, but they both have a good library of maps if you are using a set-up they dynotuned a bike for.
Cooling fans are great, but best bang is to get rid of the lean fuel mixture set at the factory to pass emissions
Suggest you remove the cat from the headpipe or spend a few bucks and get a catless header. If you want to keep stock look, consider Fullsac or Fuel Moto headers that re-use stock heatshields.
Fullsac also offers replacement baffles for stock mufflers. Good low cost way to upgrade exhaust.
To richen fuel mixture you will need a tuner. Both Fullsac and Fuel Moto sells them and will load you up a canned map that should be pretty close in order to save you the cost of a dyno tune. It's a canned map, but they both have a good library of maps if you are using a set-up they dynotuned a bike for.
Cooling fans are great, but best bang is to get rid of the lean fuel mixture set at the factory to pass emissions
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Good to hear this info as this 110 motor start's making a strange idling sound and has a different vibration at the stop lights when you start hitting some red lights. Almost feels like a cylinder shuts down to reduce heat. Only have a 150 miles on as I just got it and i'm going through the brake in process on it. So not sure if this is normal or not.
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I talked to my dealer about warranty and swapping out exhaust, because I have a 5 yr, Extended Service Plan. H-D essentially will warrant anything that runs afoul so long as it's not directly caused by after-market modifications. And so that means adding a custom exhaust system, you need to ensure that the job includes the Harley ProTuner and time on the shop dyno w/ factory techs who know what they're doing.
But your engine sounding "weird" in stop and go is the one cylinder cutting out to pump air. Should be a discussion of that feature in your owner manual.
But your engine sounding "weird" in stop and go is the one cylinder cutting out to pump air. Should be a discussion of that feature in your owner manual.