Just purchased my first CVO on valentines day, a Starfire Black with Gold Dust Flames one. We walked into the dealer to see what was going on and they must have had the lights hitting it just right- my wife looked at me and smiled and said "now that's a cool bike, if you wanted that one, I'd sign for it"..
(yes, I know, shes a keeper) so, I traded in my 11' Limited with a 103" putting out 110 torque and 105 hp. It was no slouch, riding sometimes 2 up in the Colorado Rockies, I had all the power i needed and was fun to ride.
After talking with my mechanic, we set a build date, contacted Steve down at Full Sac Performance for some advice and got the parts ordered. I knew when I bought the bike (along with a small lecture from my wife) that I didn't want to drop 10 or 15K into a 36k bike. My budget was 5k with a few extra mods like bars, highway pegs and a sissy bar- go figure these items don't even come standard on a CVO but oh well.
We went with the Mahle 113" 10.5:1 compression pistons, bored the cylinders, T-Man 625 cams, adjustable SE push rods, SE 58mm throttle body, 5.3 injectors, 4.060 head gaskets, beehive valve springs, SE race tuner, Full Sac DX pipe with 2.25" power cores and the CVO perforated muffler. At first I really didn't want to go the 113" route but after doing some research I found that Harley"s tolerances on a mass produced engine were not what I would be able achieve having the cylinders bored and match fitted with pistons. I may in the future go with some performance heads or just get mine reworked. We will see once I get used to the new bike and how the funds are.
I just got the bike back on March 28 and took it over to the next local town about 20 miles away on the back roads. I was totally impressed with how the bike ran and the responsiveness of the 625 cams. You could feel them come on right away as soon as you rolled on the throttle. My 103" had SE 259e cams and they performed OK but I really didn't run the bike in the upper RPM range while in the mountains. What I was also impressed with was the Full Sac exhaust. It sounds really great, has this deep tone to it and sounds even better when you roll into that throttle. If I can ever figure how to download the damn dyno video, I'll post it either here or on YouTube.
Its a little too cold and snowy to head up to the mountains the next few days but I'm really anxious to see how much fun its going to be. Gotta love springtime in the Rockies.
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Topic: 2015 CVO Street Glide 113" build & dyno chart (Read 5470 times)