Got the bike back from Latus Motors after they installed a SE A/C, Rush Slip-Ons 1.75, Y-pipe mod, Race Tuner and Dyno tune, and also changed fork oil to the SE Heavy which I think is 20wt. WOW!! What a difference! 96 hp and 113 ft/lbs. Now it runs like my idea of how aHarley should run. It pulls HARD and sounds great! The fork oil change was amazing too- now the fork feels like a european sports sedan instead of a '57 Ford with broken shocks! Before I felt all the bumps, big and small- now I don't feel ANY!
I also did a 'Jeff's Road Test Dyno'- before and after runs from 60-80 mph in 6th, 60-80 mph in 5th, and 2000-5000 rpm in 3rd. I just snapped open the throttle and timed how long it took to do the run I did the 60-80 runs because that's what the bike magazines do, usually in top gear, but I'll usually be in 5th going 60, so that's why I did that one. I did the 3rd gear run because that works the bike more, but there is no shifting so it a easy run to do, and it's the rpm band I'll do most of my riding in. By the way it was very hard to get consistent times so these are all the average of about 5 runs.
So did the motor work make a difference?
Before After
60-80 6th gear 6.3 sec. 5.9 sec. Stills seems a liitle slow- I think it doesn't like pulling 6th at this low rpm
60-80 5th gear 5.0 4.3 Very nice improvement, right in the band I'll be riding in at 60 mph
2000-3000 3rd gear 6.1 5.6 Runs a lot harder now, this is fun!
Thanks to everybody who made posts of this site about the mods- different exhaust, fork oil, heated seat (mine was plugged into the accessory connector, and dealer didn't know about this issue before).
Thanks to everybody who said 'HI' in the new member section also!
Now- I got some requests to post some pictures, but I don't know where- it looks like the gallery is just for full members, and you can only put one picture in each post? Can anybody tell me how to post 4-5 picutes at one time?
Thanks and happy riding, Jeff
PS On the dyno chart the base line run has to be wrong- there is no way it was making 88 hp and 106 ft/lbs stock. This is probably before the dyno tune but after the other mods were installed.