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Looking forward to following your post, BentArm. I'm in a similar situation as you. 2009 Road King, TW-555's with a ThunderMax tuner. Got many of my parts from Al at HyperCycle and want to go to the next stage. Good luck with your build! Should have got out for a scoot today. +2 degrees in Sherwood Park but the driveway is still solid ice.
I have built 3 107's each time using Fuel Moto parts and advice. My friend spent 3 times as much going to a local "Hot bike shop I won't name" and got an S&S setup. I outweigh him by 150 lbs so it's like I'm riding two up. He also has a roadking and mine's a street glide. He had his dyno'ed and I don't trust anyone here to dyno anything so I went with the same Power vision tuner and Fuel Moto tunes they sent me for my build. I auto tuned it each time (diff bikes) and it runs great. I take long two week long southern USA rides each summer and she's always run flawless. So the friend and I did a few roll on's and I left him like he was sitting still. So he took to another place to dyno. LOL A little better but I still smoke him bad. So...you get what you pay for. My two cent's and a fellow Albertan rider so I know where and how you ride.
Last edited by CalgaryBikeBum; Jan 3, 2018 at 04:15 PM.
I did my own assembly using the S&S kit. I was on a tight budget when I did my build. Everything was new but purchased on the "Homie Hook Up".
I did not do the heads yet, not sure I will, still on the fence about it.
My bike was tuned with a TTS and tuned by a very good tuner. It is smooth, quiet and pulls real hard right in the RPM range I ride at.
When I first had it tuned it was with a Fuel Moto 2-1-2 with VH twin slash. It was in the low to mid 50's that day. A few months later my Drago 2 came in and was installed and retuned. Weather now was in the 90's and humidity was in the 80%, (Florida is like the Congo during the summer).
The bike pulled almost exactly the same numbers with the new pipe. Obviously due to the conditions. Since it has cooled off the last few months the difference has been very noticeable in how much more power the bike has. This is just my observation and experience. To add, I also absolutely love the sound of the Drago 2
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