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Apr 24, 2009 | 10:35 PM

#11

Screamin Steve

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From: Denver, CO.

True duals without a crossover pipe, synthetic oil and a tuner will do the trick.

Apr 24, 2009 | 10:44 PM

#12

TheShrink

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From: Sarasota, Florida

Quote:

Originally Posted by Screamin Steve

True duals without a crossover pipe, synthetic oil and a tuner will do the trick.

Yep!

Or, stay home with your other toy, well, that won't work, she's hot too.

Apr 25, 2009 | 01:32 AM

#13

hogbag07

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From: australia

TTS Mastertuner synthetic oil and a 10 row jagg oil cooler

Apr 25, 2009 | 02:29 AM

#14

emwolb

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From: eastern oklahoma

i put the powercommander pc-v in this week, and with the map that fuelmoto sent, it's running much better and noticebly cooler too. rineharts slip ons and se air cleaner too, but other than that, it runs great. there's an item that you might look into, it does seem to create more airflow over the motor, and it's called a fork air baffle, bolts on to the back of your lower triple tree, and it also helps with wind that shoots up between your forks at the front of the gas tank. seems to help.

Apr 25, 2009 | 03:44 AM

#15

RangeRat

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From: Cocoa Beach, Florida

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheShrink

Yep!

Or, stay home with your other toy, well, that won't work, she's hot too.

I'm an ancient oldphart (even another birthday today too) but I'm not dead yet and I was thinking the same thing. With a cutie like her on the pillion your scoot just has to run a bit hot no matter what mods you try

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Oh... back on topic... I'm positive that mine cooled down some with free-flowing muffs (V&H for me), SEAC, and PC III tuner. I also stuck a set of those frame mounted heat-shields on. The RH side one does a decent job redirecting more of the heated air flow downward instead of letting it all just flow back across your lady's right leg.

As others have said, I can easily envision that if more were needed, a set of true dual head pipes will eliminate the cross-over and would surely help more too.

Last edited by RangeRat; Apr 25, 2009 at 03:54 AM.

Apr 25, 2009 | 04:21 AM

#16

eskimoSG09

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You could move to Canada. The heat issue only affects you about two months of the year.

Apr 25, 2009 | 06:00 AM

#17

blueride

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The Xieds or Ieds are the way to alievate some of the heat on your 08.Getting rid of the crossover pipe also.

The Xieds worked for me for thousands of trouble free miles. I think the web site is niterider.com.

Do a search, more info than you care to read.