Finally got my cam installed

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Apr 4, 2024 | 09:12 AM

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07ntrain

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Originally Posted by 81shovelhd!

Off topic.......but NS is BEAUTIFUL!!
Hope it's as nice as it was when visited from NYC when I was 10.....59yrs ago!
Bike sounds awesome BTW!!

There is alot of good riding up here, need to watch out for the deer , lots of deer.

Apr 4, 2024 | 09:42 AM

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MCRD'71

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Originally Posted by 07ntrain

so bike is a 2018 street glide special, quite a few visual mods, 21" cvo front wheel, matching rear, 16" ironhold apes, rinehart dbx45's, led headlight and led signals and rear tail light. Cvo seat, low profile crash bar and joker machine boards and pegs, tallboys cycles floor board extensions, and some other things i cant think of. I never got to ride the bike until i dropped it off to have the cam done, along with the updated 2020 harley oil pump, feuling lifters, s&s lifter cuffs and the s&s 465 cam. When the shop opened it up it already had adjustable pushrods, se lifters and the se-462 cam. Those parts are removed and in the garage and i may just sell them.

Anyway, bike sounds awesome and i really like the sound of the rinehart dbx45 slip ons, good lope from the cam and just had a new tune from vance and hines sent. I had a map from the fp3 on for the last couple days but changed it to one recommended by v&h. Its only 6 degrees c here so the ride was a bit cold but the bike runs awesome with tons of torque. I know a dyno tune will be better but this is totally fine for now. Hoping for some better weather. Not sure what the next mods will be, maybe need to upgrade the fairing speakers, not great when travelling over km/h.

hold on!!!!

Apr 6, 2024 | 02:03 PM

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07ntrain

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Got a new tune from V&H and it idles nice and smooth and sounds good. Weather shoukd be good Monday so I'll have a whole day of riding to compare the tunes. Will get some nice pics hopefully during this eclipse.

Apr 6, 2024 | 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by 08police

I would ditch the FP3. You are never going to be able to tune it right. Much better tuners out there for example, Powervision and TTS.

Nah, the FP3 works great for the combination he has. The guys at VH know what they're doing. Nothing in his build is out-of-the-ordinary.

Apr 6, 2024 | 03:05 PM

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That's been my experience with the FP3 as well. Their staff really nail the tunes for almost any reasonable configuration. We don't ride dyno charts, we ride bikes. Congrats on the upgrade. Ride it.

Apr 6, 2024 | 03:15 PM

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golfblues

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Originally Posted by 07ntrain

Yeah I know. It's a bit steep. Now looking at other tuners or to get V&H to fine tune woth the FP3. I just started the bike in the garage and it's stumbling while idling and giving a loud poo as well. It didn't do this with the other tune right off the tuner itself.

Let Vance & Hines adjust it. I have an fp3 on my 19 Street Glide with 22xe cams with dbx45's. After a couple of Auto Tunes I had V&H iron out a couple of soft spots and The bike runs fantastic. I haven't touched it since and that was three years ago. It was Cheyne at V&H that made the adjustments

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Apr 6, 2024 | 07:05 PM

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Yeah, as long as it runs well I'm happy. I'm not chasing HP or TQ numbers or racing. If I didn't need to change the oil pump I wouldn't have done the cam I dint think. V&H did say don't run auto tune with the custom tune they sent because it will mess it up. Kind of makes sense. I'll run a tank through it and see how it is.

Apr 6, 2024 | 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 07ntrain

They told me not to run auto tune after they adjusted my map too. Didn't have to do anything after.... my son-in-law has a 19 SG 114 stage 1 and he rode mine after the cam job. He now has the 22xe with TAB slipons 😂.. he did put on a power vision from fuel moto on my advice as it was about the same price as the fp3 at the time. Both bikes run great with both fuel management systems.