Damn, that was anticlimactic! I was expecting singed nose hair and eyebrows. I have noticed that if you open your window on a calm night, you can hear the sucking sound all the way from….aw crap, this won’t end well…my bad…never mind. 
Sorry DJ. I try to block it out. I was one of the first
stupid assholes that Zippers asked to bend over and accept this package guinea pigs for this package. The problems were several. The problems were of two types also. Products and service.
On the service side the company was incredibly slow (even by motorcycle vendor standards) filling the order. And they just flat lied several times in the process about what they'd have and when they'd have it. Saying whatever was necessary at the time to pacify the moment. Their service and support efforts after the fact are suggested in the post I wrote immediately prior to this.
On the product side it was also a catastrophe. The initial machine work provided by them as part of this package or kit was like something out of a high school machine shop class. The cylinders looked fine. But the valve job on the heads was so poor I did it again here before using them. Seats were cut so deep you knew the heads would be back off. The final cuts and polishing of the chambers looked like they'd come straight from the CNC machine and that the machine had been cutting with a dull tool.
The package in combination also had issues. After much discussion, research, private chats and other discovery I found out that above and beyond the poor quality of the head's machine work the basic geometry they were creating for them was very poor also. Slow. Gagging.
Their response to this was to band aid the package with a far larger cam than they'd originally told me to expect as part of the package. Larger (and unmarked in any way) than they told me I had when parts arrived. The effect of their 657 cam in the little 103 motor with their head package was to create a bike that was literally unrideable in warmer weather.
The work was done during a February. Through March to mid April it was ok. Once temps hit 70-75 you'd get detonation. Significant. Once you got to 85 or ambient you really couldn't ride the bike. It would've hurt itself. It also could not be detuned such to really be anything you'd want to ride out on the highway. The engine combination just didn't play well together. Several hours dyno time couldn't make it manageable.
The dyno time was a band aid attempt after bailing on their Thundermax. It couldn't come close to managing the combination. In fact it often added timing and made it worse rather than leaning the other way. And the company was worthless.
Finally un-Zippered the bike and did The ButtonFly Resurrection. That time I did as I should have the first time and completed my own homework on everything. Brought my own bits together without relying on the reputation of someone else's shop and that their "package" would in fact play well together.
Mine wasn't the only similar experience with that 103 Muscle Kit. Unfortunately so. They might have changed the package some since those early efforts. That I can not say. But from what I've read and heard since I don't think so. God help anyone who makes an attempt at that package.
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