Hey Cowboy

That should work, just get the jetting right. Years ago I put on a big bore HD carb on a 99 Roadking and it ran really good and strong.

No, won't be as easy, there are no throttle cables, it's FBW all the bikes
controls are run by the ECM, you'd be better off with buying a carb bike
and dropping in an SNS 106 crate engine...

mpg is out the window!!! lol

yup

JB I forgot about the No cables crap on the new bikes , so there's another problum , Like we talked about find a 06 model cause that was the last year for a carb , Then you can easly build a 103 from the 88 & run a carb easy swap & cheeper to tune I DON'T CARE IF i WENT BACKWORDS I CAN TUNE MY BIKE NOW

Lol harleylsr your so right , I really enjoy my carb bike , still haven't checked the jets yet , she's running so good , no miss, top or bottom end & smooth in the middle

If its running that good Cowboy why even check the jets, sounds good and dialed in.

agree!!!!!!!!!!

If you ain't messing with it we will have fewer posts, go out there and screw it up LOL

I don't think going Carb on an 08 and up is going to be an easy option because of the way the electronics are setup, and as HD moves forward with electronics you'll have even more issues as they move to the Chassis Control Module like the 11 softails.

Basically it's a separate switchbox that controls the electronics functions and it
will probably work in conjunction with the data buss system on the bike and the ecm.

To change it out you'll have to change ALL the electronics, get an ignition, re wire the harness to hook up the sensors properly, and hope the sensors are in the same range as the ignition wants, a new coil, gas tank will need to be retrofitted for a petcock as the tanks on 9 and up are different (6 gallon, no crossover etc) then you have the whole throttle thing.

Could you do it? Sure, but why....

Just quit complaining about EFI, learn about it and move forward.

The new EFI is light years beyond Magnetti Marelli systems...

LMAO Hrk yep if it ain't broke don't fix it , My ride is a 03 so it had the delphie system , the carb works just fine the way it is now, still breaking it in( again) so really haven't got on it CB style yet , Taht was the second EFI system on this bike , first one broke the butterfly shaft :cussing: this one that just came off I got from a guy on HHT cause it took it off for a carb , I tried to run the efi for 5 years , But MY pockets are not as deep as ole cardboards for a TMAX or another tunner Had a PC 111 & had it dynoed as well ran good for a few years then all hell broke loose & she Now has a new top end & carb , I'll just bet the puter wont go hair wire & burn it up again

Good for you Cowboy. Had a sit down talk with the service manager from our HD dealer tonight and in a very nice way I told him about my issue with the dyno tune and the SERT super tuner and he said that he to is leaning away from telling everyone that they need a tuner installed. He said that yes many times just the HD factory download will work very well. He is a pretty good guy and said if I ever do anything else to the bike to come to him and he will take care of me if the bike then needs a dyno tune. Pretty good guy.

FLHT thats good to here , hope you get it all worked out

Yea, the bike is running good now and the fuel mileage is 42-45 which is a whole lot better than the 35 and under I was getting.

Ya that is better then the 35 , I'am still running on the fill up I put in when I got my bike running again about 1/2 tank & just shy of 200 miles ,BUt that just running around at about 55-60 , I did get on it twice but not real hard just bump 70 & eas back out of it

Not bad must mean that carb is performing pretty darn good. You would spend a couple thousand bucks with a dyno and tuner to get that or not get it.