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[North Georgia Hawg]

Been off the website for a while and while i was gone Ken's Gone Wild!!!  Almost as interesting as Girls Gone Wild, almost.

Ken, great choice in exhaust. Stepped headers only work well on monster motors. Non stepped headers will give
you more torque in the lower rpm range and still flow well enough to get good top end horsepower out of our engines.

Sounds like you quit playing around and got serious. Look forward to reading more in this thread. Well Done.

Why so SERIOUS?




Hey, Mark! Nice to hear from you. Guess they're keepin' ya busy at the Toad, huh?

For the record, this thread could not POSSIBLY be anywhere NEAR as "interesting" as GGW!!! 

Yeah, I had a very good talk with Frank at Drago's about stepped vs. straight headers. He recommended the S/C/S-4 over the Dragula precisely because of its straight headers vs. the stepped ones on the Dragula. He said the S/C/S-4 is good for up to 130 HP... which frankly I'll never get past. But he had it on his personal 182 HP blower ride until recently... so I KNOW I will never "outgrow" it!

Frank said exactly what you said - the straight headers will help with the low end torque. With the 54H cams and their 238/238 duration, it still doesn't come in strong until around 2700 RPM - but now it feels like an afterburner when it does! Can't wait to get the tune right again... there are several flat spots now with the new squish and the new exhaust. It's not popping at all, so I don't think it's too lean overall - but it is definitely off in some RPM/kPa ranges. At near WOT at lower RPMs it's quite flat... so I know that I have some swizzling to do under 3000 RPM. Above that it seems fine.... this sucker SCREAMS!

[North Georgia Hawg]

Here's a little video of Buster's new voice!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/northgeorgiahawg/6968273963/in/set-72157628320404689

[North Georgia Hawg]

Here's a shot of Buster I just took today, with the new S/C/S-4 exhaust...

And here's a link to my Flickr set of Buster. The last 79 pics in it are new ones I just took today... http://www.flickr.com/photos/northgeorgiahawg/sets/72157628320404689/

[Cvostu]

Looks great Ken.   I get mine back sometime.   Next week I hope.   

[BUBBLEHEAD]

Hey Ken your link wont work for me for some reason.  Almost pulled into Good Ol Days today there was another Citrus SESG there took me a minute to realize it wasn't yours.

[LovemyCVOgirl]

Your link doesn't open for me either Ken  But what a nice looking SG 

[North Georgia Hawg]

SORRY! I screwed up pasting the link... try it now (edited the post above with the link to be this one, too):  http://www.flickr.com/photos/northgeorgiahawg/sets/72157628320404689/

[BUBBLEHEAD]

Looking good Ken.

So when are you going to be the guinea pig on Dragos chain conversion for everyone?

[LovemyCVOgirl]

Ken your mc is a piece of art  . I am so impressed.  I started a list for mine after looking at your pictures. I need the chrome neck covers, the chrome starter cover and I looked at the web site for your horn and it appears that it comes with 2 airhorns beside's the flame cover.  Did you mount the horns somewhere else on your scooter?  Also, what extenders did you use for your highway pegs?  With your chubby 575 bars, it does appear that they come back a few inches (would be good for me) but are they also wider than the stock?  I'm worried that spreading my arms further apart could create other back problems.  I love your tour PAC and all the extras you have added    I really like your pipes but after dropping 1K in mine, I'm gonna learn to love them!  I will probably think of more questions, so you will be hearing from me 
Judy

[North Georgia Hawg]

Looking good Ken.

So when are you going to be the guinea pig on Dragos chain conversion for everyone?

Probably as soon as I can get my azz up to Frank's shop in Naperville, IL. I REALLY want that, to change the final drive to 2.97.

While I'm there, I asked him to think about what to do with the heads. He doesn't like the SE heads - says the valves are too big, and that hurts velocity. It's true... the Evo SE heads had that same issue... Big Boyz say they can make stock 96" heads flow better than SE 110" heads. Might go with S&S heads, or something else.. I'll levee that to the experts. Looking for around 10-1 CR... probably not much more. Thinking about Wiseco 10.5-1 forged pistons... but those make tuning a blee-atch to avoid pinging. Of course, there's always octane booster!

I just hope Frank doesn't talk me into a damn BLOWER while I'm there... 180+ HP would be a HOOT!!! That would pretty much settle everything in my group, right there...  Of course, there are these damn fairing lower SPEAKERS to deal with...

I am also considering a Zippers ThunderMax ECM with autotune... that thing continuously gathers correction data to keep the AFR correct everywhere, and you can flash in the changes to the base map at any time. Beats doing a ton of VTune runs, and it gathers correction data all the time.
Probably should go ahead and cancel the extended warranty on this beast, and get some money back... not gonna be much H-D stuff left to warranty soon anyway! 

[Banana man]

Why so SERIOUS?




Hey, Mark! Nice to hear from you. Guess they're keepin' ya busy at the Toad, huh?

For the record, this thread could not POSSIBLY be anywhere NEAR as "interesting" as GGW!!! 

Yeah, I had a very good talk with Frank at Drago's about stepped vs. straight headers. He recommended the S/C/S-4 over the Dragula precisely because of its straight headers vs. the stepped ones on the Dragula. He said the S/C/S-4 is good for up to 130 HP... which frankly I'll never get past. But he had it on his personal 182 HP blower ride until recently... so I KNOW I will never "outgrow" it!

Frank said exactly what you said - the straight headers will help with the low end torque. With the 54H cams and their 238/238 duration, it still doesn't come in strong until around 2700 RPM - but now it feels like an afterburner when it does! Can't wait to get the tune right again... there are several flat spots now with the new squish and the new exhaust. It's not popping at all, so I don't think it's too lean overall - but it is definitely off in some RPM/kPa ranges. At near WOT at lower RPMs it's quite flat... so I know that I have some swizzling to do under 3000 RPM. Above that it seems fine.... this sucker SCREAMS!

Ken, Yep Landers Toad Suck Harley Davidson has been keeping me very busy lately. We just went to
6 days a week for the spring and summer months. That means I now get to work 6 days a week and with commute
its about 12 hours a day. I still love it anyway. I get paid to work with Harley's all day.

Your pipe sounds GREAT!! It now sounds like a real hot rod. I bet it flows good too. When you get it tuned right
I think you will be surprised how much more power you will gain than you have now. The right tuning is magic.

I am going to change cams in mine again to get more top end power and maybe do a few other tricks for a
little more power.

Before you do a Thundermax consider a Revolution Performance EMS. Twolane has both and he likes the
Rev Perf EMS better. He says it seems to tune more accurately.

Do I see a set of chrome calipers in your future???   I just could not resist that.

Buster looks great.

[North Georgia Hawg]

Yeah, looking at the RP one as well, Mark. Have heard good things about that one, too.

Chrome calipers are due here next week... they are in shipment!

 

[North Georgia Hawg]

Ken your mc is a piece of art  . I am so impressed.  I started a list for mine after looking at your pictures. I need the chrome neck covers, the chrome starter cover and I looked at the web site for your horn and it appears that it comes with 2 airhorns beside's the flame cover.  Did you mount the horns somewhere else on your scooter?  Also, what extenders did you use for your highway pegs?  With your chubby 575 bars, it does appear that they come back a few inches (would be good for me) but are they also wider than the stock?  I'm worried that spreading my arms further apart could create other back problems.  I love your tour PAC and all the extras you have added    I really like your pipes but after dropping 1K in mine, I'm gonna learn to love them!  I will probably think of more questions, so you will be hearing from me 
Judy

Hi Judy! Thanks for the kind words about Buster!

My horn is from Metal Arts in California. It is a Wolo Bad Boy inside... self-contained... just plugs into the two horn wires. BUT, it took 4 MONTHS to get it.... and about 6 or 7 e-mails and phone calls bugging them to ship it. I don't know how those guys even have a business doing things like that. I would not recommend them, frankly. Good casting and nice chrome... but the aggravation was not worth it. Or maybe it was... not everyone has a Big Chrome Ball O' Flames horn! 

I used the H-D "Long Angled Highway Peg Mounts". They are on the P&A site... about $100.

The Chubbys 575s are awesome for me. They move your hands back about 2" (more if you angle them down), about 1" or so up (less if you angle them down), and about 2" wider than stock. The position is MUCH better for me. I don't think you will have an issue with the wider hand position... it's much more comfortable, and when you bring your hands back 2", moving them out is nothing. It's really a more natural position than having them closer together... your wrists are straighter, which makes riding more comfortable, and you get much more turning leverage, to boot. Plus, the 1 1/4" diameter looks KILLER... MUCH more substantial-looking than the puny 1" stock bars! They look nice and BEEFY... and the chrome on them is rich-looking and flawless!

I sold my Fullsac X-Pipe for $400 to a friend who couldn't get one due to production backlogs, and I sold my CVO cans with the Fullsac 2" baffles for $275. So, that paid for the S/C/S-4 including shipping, and only had to pay another $310 for the left-side ghost pipe. Worked out well for me... as everything on this bike has so far. I guess Buster chose his Guardian Angel pretty well... I hear she can fly pretty darn fast, too! 

[North Georgia Hawg]

We went riding in a group of 10 today for a ride in the mountains. HOLY CRAP! The Traxxion AK-20s are unbelievable! I found myself overcorrecting early-on - because I had gotten used to the sloppy, diving, antique damping technology and the soft springs in the forks on these beasts. Gradually got used to actually having CONTROL up front.... then started having FUN FUN FUN!!!

Also managed to beat two of my friends with freshly re-cammed and freshly tuned engines by Doc (and they are both DIALED IN, believe me!)... one a 103" RG and the other a 96" Ultra without the TP on. I had my Tour Pak on... heehee! Since Buster hasn't even been retuned yet for the Cometics and the Drago's pipe... I felt OK with that!

With those perfect tunes, I was kinda worried, especially about the 103... but I pulled away and shut her down around 110. He's popping some, which tells me he is running too lean now, probably pretty much across the board. Retuning will fix that... 

[Mano]

Alright Buster.