2000 road king upgrade

Happy holidays to all. Bought another ride, 2000 black Road King 17000 miles, stock with V/H slip ons and K/N filter. Bought a set of stock 06 heads low miles looking at street port at VEETWIN, 95 in bore kit, ( about 9.5 to1 ) and cams somewhere around SE 203 or 204 and a better air intake system. OOPS bike is carb by the way. Rode my evo wide glide just shy of 7000 this summer, looking for a little more comfort. My build on the evo turned out excellent, runs strong, pulls hard to 6000 with only oil changes for maintenance, no consumption. Will need to sell in spring. Ride 1 up mostly, will talk to VEETWIN to try and tweak the combo, still want reliability and looooow maintenance, fixing is fun when it is white out not when it is green. Thanks to BP, HRK and all the valuable info that members provide on the site and directions to other sites. Bob

Good deal . Nothing fells better for long rides like a rubber mount . Dump the 203 and 204 . Sns. 570 set it at 10 .1 you will be much happier for that heavy bike . Great street hi way cam beutifull roll on with much less lift at tdc than the 203. . You can run a tight. Quench and not have to worry. 1.900 on the intake 1.550 exhaust kirbys port work . That thing will run awesome.

thanks for the advice BP. Not to sound thrifty but why not keep stock cam chains and put a h/v pump and new chain tensioners and ride. One of the biggest advantage i see in the new design is that it more to likely maintain chain tension on a cough that would turn engine backwards as they are oil fed and dampened if you update to newer plate. Gear drives do sound cool but for a well maintained cruiser there are other ways to spend money like a ignition system. Saw tensioners on fleabay with (new) design material anybody know anything about them? Anyways looking out the window no snow today, been getting it pretty heave last 5-6 days. Plow snow part time, a little is fun then gets old. Thanks again for any input Bob

ide go geardrive,or atleast to the new style plate/tensioners.the 99-06 tensioners gotta go,VERY bad design

They have chain drive 570 cams as well but I would go gear drives . Mine kicks back every once in a while when hot never had an issuie and if somethings goona break it ain't gonna be a gear if set up correct . If run out is good go gear . If bad go to new style plate kit . With sns 570 chain drive. And it comes with updated pump . )Kirby will set ya up . With what you need . He has parts and he will take care of ya allways a good deal for the guys on tghe forum.

Hoping to make my upgrade easier, got my send out set of cyl. heads Mon. Look good, packaged well enough to go to Siberia. Will talk to Kirby begining of next week to make a plan. I was spoiled by my upgrade on the EVO, the cost was more bang for the buck. Do not want to do this more than once, will go gear drive and upgrade plate with recomendations from Kirby. Hope to do all the upgrades before spring if the cash flow makes it but will not do half the job and look back and say (what a dumb a-- ) Bob

Well enjoy the build brother . Hope it runs out real good for ya . If ya run in to any questions we are here to help and spend your money as well .lmfao . Good luck and happy new year!