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Any of you who have read my prior post regarding the exhaust popping on decilaration after installing D & D Fat Cats last week know the start of the story.

The canned PVC map was usless. Jamie sent me a "custom map" which was terrible I went back to the canned map.

I decided based on the forum responses that a Dyno Tune was called for and I called Andrew at Rosa's Cycle Shop on Long Island who has the rep of being one of the best tuners on the east coast. Dropped my bike off this morning. After a long converstaion and not much prodding on his part I was talked into cams. Told Andrew what would make me happy and he said the only cams he would recommend are the Woods TW555. Soooo what started out as just a simple exhaust system upgrade $$$$$ LOL!

Will report the before and after Dyno results on wednesday!
 
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LOL. You might as well do the big bore kit at the same time. Save some on labor.

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Rosa's did the build on a friends bike..... You should be very happy with the results
 
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Guess I'll keep my stock exhaust after reading this.
 
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You will like the combination of cams + Fatcat. I had Andrews 37G cams installed in my SG last year. I was happy with the difference, but adding the Fatcat really woke it up.

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Heads, Valve springs, those cams like more compression... you know.. get 5K ready LOL
 
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Originally Posted by ejvette
Any of you who have read my prior post regarding the exhaust popping on decilaration after installing D & D Fat Cats last week know the start of the story.

The canned PVC map was usless. Jamie sent me a "custom map" which was terrible I went back to the canned map.

I decided based on the forum responses that a Dyno Tune was called for and I called Andrew at Rosa's Cycle Shop on Long Island who has the rep of being one of the best tuners on the east coast. Dropped my bike off this morning. After a long converstaion and not much prodding on his part I was talked into cams. Told Andrew what would make me happy and he said the only cams he would recommend are the Woods TW555. Soooo what started out as just a simple exhaust system upgrade $$$$$ LOL!

Will report the before and after Dyno results on wednesday!
This is why I am scared to take a 2hr ride to get my bike tuned by them.I have very little self control when it comes to mods.
 
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Everyone I talk to says to stay away from Rosa's. Some of these guys race bikes and spend big bucks on them. I hope you get a good tune. Keep us posted on his service.
 
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Originally Posted by ejvette
After a long converstaion and not much prodding on his part I was talked into cams. Told Andrew what would make me happy and he said the only cams he would recommend are the Woods TW555. Soooo what started out as just a simple exhaust system upgrade $$$$$ LOL!
That's the way it starts. Once he's done with the cams and tune, you'll be cruising sayin' "damn, I like this". And thus starts the itch.
Like klf33 said, start saving now. Another $1k - $1.5k you'll have scratched the itch.......maybe.
 
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Everyone I talk to says to stay away from Rosa's. Some of these guys race bikes and spend big bucks on them. I hope you get a good tune. Keep us posted on his service.
Well I know alot of folks who have had serious work done by this shop without a single problem and their rep is impeccable Your the 1st person I have ever heard with a negative comment. I feel very good about my decision to have them work on my ride....well worth the 1 1/2 hrs to get there!
 


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