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07 wg

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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Here is my 07 WG, I took it to a dude that build race bikes. I had bought spare jugs. Spare heads and he got the pistons , cams , gaskets and everything else.
    He had all the parts on a Build table before I ever took the bike to him.
    He build the bike while I was there.
    He put a Thunder-Max on the bike and we did some riding . And came back and he looked at the TM , it has a monitor log, it will tell how far I wound the gears and how fast I was going and what my AFR's was
    He has been doing zippers stuff for many years.
    I asked for a mild build I wanted to keep a lot of reliability in it. So he built it like I wanted. He said he could given me a lot more HP, but it would of taken some liability out. And the bike would run faster than I would probaly want.
    He was right.
    He explained to me. When you build a bike, it ain't how many Hp or torque it has, its how fast it will go from point A to Point B.
    So if you have a bike with less Hp and winds up faster and runs faster than a bike with more Hp, you got what you want.
    So with his builds forgit the numbers. Look at how fast it will run.
    I think he under charged me. the bike was a rocket. I let somebody ride it one time andthey said, man what the heck did you do to the bike. I was over a hundred and in 3rd gear before I could think what was going on.:gah:
    Still know the dude too. He's a great dyno man. Just don't have a dyno anymore.

    This was the fastest bike I've had. I did 140 in 5th gear and run out of road before I could open it up. I scared myself too.

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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Here is another bike he build .
    This bike ran dang good.

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    Nice lookin WideGlide!
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    Thanks
    It would scream
    Wished I could of kept it
    But i'm a poor boy and retired
    Or should we say Tired
    Or should I say Lazy
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    Yer ain't that poor getting rid of a '07 and riding an '11 dresser! :rolleyes:
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    I tried being a young man
    Got. A 07 street bob new cause of the price
    Had it 2 months and had 8000 miles on it
    Traded it in on a 07 eg and only lost 800.00
    With 46,000 on the Wg I knew I had to trade for a 08 EF
    Had 48,000 on the 08 EG
    Found the 11 limited with1036 miles as a trade it
    Couldn't pass it upt this will be my last bike at my age
    I'm gonna try to pay the limited off by next year
    And draw my pennies
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    OK I hear ya. You changed bikes more than I change my drawers! If I still had a job I'd get me an Ultra to ride into my sunset with. The Fatboy is fun but...
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    What's happening with the Cowboys???
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    lean dip at 4.000 sure drops that horse power there tooo . did ya see that in the dyno sheet dumps af to almosy 15 .0 thats scary nice lookin bike sure makes good power when its rich air fuel dont like that rise in air fuel . hell of an engine builder . not to happy with the tune jmo.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    This was a mild reliable build. I didn't have a lot of miles on the bike.
    Rode the bike 100 miles to the dealership, was runnin late too. I screamed over there.
    They stuck it on the dyno right after I got there
    I just wanted to know about what it was puttin out.
    And if you notised that's SAE measurments. Not stardard.
    I asked for standard but they like doing SAE.
    They weren't dynoing the bikes program.
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    it made great torque . !thats what moves the bike and gets it out the hole. good build
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    Betcha you could flatten out that AFR line pretty easy with a TTS or SERT:devil:hehehehe;)
    That is quite a spike where you'd spend a fair amount of time in that RPM range...little dip in HP and TQ at the same RPM's...
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    thats a two in to one for ya starts pullin and scavange you got to feed it fuel that torque could have been in the 105 for sure but what the hell it mad good power any way that was a good pull .
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    Yeah....it is a good one...just trying to yank cardboards chain a little;):D
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    wont take much!:rolleyes:
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    The bike had just been built like 600 miles before the dyno run
    I was scared to dyno it but I wanted to kinda what it was puttin out
    There was a dude that had a SE 110 on a springier that did a rolling takeoff
    That run me
    I pulled off so bad on him he followed me to the dealership
    And asked
    I paid 30,000 for my bike and I just got blew away
    I just stood there and Smiled like a Possum!

    The 08 flht I had , that i built ,with the Woods cam heads and supertrapp nearly run that good
    This new bike I'm not gonna run so hard
    I don't take off as hard and don't usually got much over 85
    I try to cruise at 70
    Better on fuel milage
    If I ever do anything to it
    It will be a set of Bob Woods 555 cams

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