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Roller Rockers

Discussion in 'Motorcycle Tech Talk' started by JohnnyBiker, Dec 28, 2011.

  1. prodrag1320

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    1.75 would put a .590 cam at around .635.what it would add @ TDC,Ide have to know the TDC lift @ 1.625.cardboard,are you on the WOODS payroll?? ive seen alot of guys drinking the WOODS koolaid,but jeez!!!
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    No but I dang sure like woods cam's and all
    Bob has been racing for many years
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    HicCup Banned A-Hole

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    Looking at your profile description. Do you ride anything for the street? I can add average of.045 to the end of each cam spec to count for higher rocker?
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    :roflmao: and he stirs the kool aid with a TMax:roflmao:
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    Bike shop over in Conroe, Texas has a customer that has like a 07 Road King witha 96 cubic engine. He wanted a 58mm TB on it.
    They had a very hard time trying to work to get it tuned at the Montgomery County track with a SE race tuner.
    He said do a 103 on the bike so they did. And still was having problems and was telling him his TB was too big for his bike and the cams and compression he has.
    Thunder-Max happened to be there.
    Said we have a tuner that will fix your bike.
    He said put it on.
    They put it on and put a map in it. And all the problems they was having was gone. The bike ran like a Champ
    They was shocked.
    I've had very good luck with a TM, just need to work on my fuel milage If I can get the time.
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    I used new original equipment springs. You are probably right, I should have bought heavier springs but did not know. Just pointing out the hazards of experimenting, what you don't know can hurt you.
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    hotroadking Super Moderator Staff Member

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    valve springs have a max lift for a reason and shims for setting
    up the amount of pressure, get it wrong, and your valve stays open
    when it should shut and bam hits piston, bends valve stem, breaks pushrod
    jams lifter busts lifter wheel, busts other stuff goes bang then stops.
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    bob has some good cam profiles,but hardly for everyones riding styles (ramps too aggresive & too noisy for most),as far as springs go,get AV&V (probebly want what woods is repackaging any way)I do agree on the T-MAX though,by far the best tuning device avaliable,but overkill for milder builds
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    Bob's cams pulls real strong. And as far as noisy, get some good lifters and run good oil and you don't notise any difference in the noise level.
    And if you ask they do you want me to put yer stock cam back in they answer real fast , heck no. I wouldn't trade the power for anything.
    And everybody I've put one of Bob's cams in rides their bike all the time.
    What the end user needs to learn is how to control their wrist with the new power. you can't run the heck out of them all the time.

    I've put them in a lot of bikes and Nobody ever cryied they was too noisy.
    They liked the Power.

    And when somebody starts changing header pipes, mufflers and air intake. They usually never know where they want to be or where they will Stop.
    One thing usually leads to another and they go from the HF air intake and mufflers to a Cam. Then go piston and jugs and heads.
    So why not start with a Tuner that will be with you threw the whole process instead of buying one tuner after another tuner after another tuner.
    And you got to admit. From the factory, the bikes come running pretty lean.
    give it a couple more years. And with the Ethanol in the fuel and the fuel being Reformulated Gas. It pretty well sux's all way around.
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    beleave me,WOODS cams are known for making more noise than most other cams,been buildind HI-PO HD motors for 30+ years,i know all about lifters,oil wieght & tuning very well,thanks
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    And H D motors don't already make noise
    And the 1st thing somebody does to their bike is take off quiet pipes and put louder ones on
    Dang
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    CB likes to scan woods web page on his eye fone while he's eatn cheetos
    in his rock'n chair!
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    HicCup Banned A-Hole

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    How did thread bout roller rockers turn to cams? who da heck is Bob Woods?
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    yeah, i think i saw one of his builds the other day...
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    lmafo!!!!!
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    Naw, that's Fred Flintstone's bike. He drags his feet to stop.
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    Thanks for all of the debate about this topic, it is much appreciated. I have decided that I am going to go with roller rockers and am considering very hard to go to a 1.7 ratio. Roller rockers will be ordered here soon as I am getting a nice size bonus from work. I do think that I am going to go with the S&S rockers that HrK had suggested earlier in this thread. Thanks HRK.
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    They are good, best if you go with rollers to stick with quality
    there were a bunch of chin-lee knock offs that were falling
    apart when the TC was first getting started for hop ups.

    Just make sure everything is clearanced, more lift means you need more
    room for the valve....

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