What About A Dyno?
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RE: What About A Dyno?
ORIGINAL: SMenasco
I had a service person at a Harley shop tell me to never put a bike on a dyno. He said it would be the same as adding 10 years of bearing and gear wear to the engine and running gear. Anything to this?
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I had a service person at a Harley shop tell me to never put a bike on a dyno. He said it would be the same as adding 10 years of bearing and gear wear to the engine and running gear. Anything to this?
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My Engine must be like 60 years old then. let's see 6000 miles a years X 60 years =360,000miles. What a freakin TOOL[sm=bangbang.gif]
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RE: What About A Dyno?
A good dyno shop will extend more engine lives then shorten them and will cause less tire/drivetrain wear and tear then trying to accomplish the same testing/tuning results on the street.
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RE: What About A Dyno?
I have never dyno'd the EG, but I have had the ZRX on the dyno a few times. Pulls done right up to the redline, after all I want to see the A/F ratio on the mains not in transition
I have seen the same guy that dyno's my jap bike dyno HD's in the same night and never has anyone said it was a bad thing for the bike.
I attend MotorcycleNight in Lowell MA on a regular basis ( www.motorcyclenight.com ) and one of the most popular nights of the summer is the night they bring in the portable dyno. $25.00 for a pull with printouts. And after this pull I shimmed the needles .050" so I don't want to hear anything about the lean condition at 3k
I have seen the same guy that dyno's my jap bike dyno HD's in the same night and never has anyone said it was a bad thing for the bike.
I attend MotorcycleNight in Lowell MA on a regular basis ( www.motorcyclenight.com ) and one of the most popular nights of the summer is the night they bring in the portable dyno. $25.00 for a pull with printouts. And after this pull I shimmed the needles .050" so I don't want to hear anything about the lean condition at 3k
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RE: What About A Dyno?
NEGGIE, your #'s aint jivin....as far as a dyno, i've spent some change on it with good and not so good techs...i'm lookin into the ThunderMax with auto tune now....i'll be damned if i'm gonna let PhilM get that close to me 
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From: KMHT KFMY
RE: What About A Dyno?
yep those are rice numbers... I will dyno the EG this summer now that the PCIII and the big sucker are done. Maybe by then I can talk myself into some true duals or at least some slip ons.
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RE: What About A Dyno?
Bryan - The dyno chart is for his ZRX1200, not his Harley. Look at the RPM.
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RE: What About A Dyno?
ORIGINAL: Bryan TTM
i'm lookin into the ThunderMax with auto tune now....i'll be damned if i'm gonna let PhilM get that close to me
i'm lookin into the ThunderMax with auto tune now....i'll be damned if i'm gonna let PhilM get that close to me