Stage 1 kit

Thanks Chuck - I'll be installing it tomrrow and I'll post the results.

Oooops! I'll get the vaseline.

alaitken

Kenfuzed - I checked out the box- it's a dyno jet kit - also installed the Dakota kid fuel pedstal and the Arlen Ness big sucker kit. I gotta hand it to Arlen; the way they worked the backing plate to elimate to oil tubes was really a boss job, no more oil in the filter problems.
Once I get it dailed in I am putting the new fancy grips on. More chrome makes it look good when yer waiting along the road, don't make go faster ya just arrive in style. nespa?

Own a 2003 Low Rider 80-CI, and recently installed a recommended complete stage one kit. K&N complete air intake system, Vance & Hines Straight Shooter pipes, and a Harley Performance carb upgraxde kit which included a larger main & pilot jet, diaphram etc. I purchased this kit from Harley-Performance .com After much internet research this was the only carb upgrade from a company with 25 + years of experience for this one upgrade. I removed the carburator, followed the basic instructions, and when all was done the bike fired up instantly, idled perfect at 850 all day, and the low, Mid, and High range are all absolute perfection. The instructions tell you exactly how many turns to back out the upgraded thumb mixture screw, and everything else is non adjustable. If you want to upgrade your CV carbutator to stage 1, than this is the kit I would recommend. Get the deluxe kit for $52.95 which includes the easy turn mixture screw, required drill bits etc. It's a very easy install. One piece of advice. When you go to remove the old jets, be sure to have a clean common screwdriver that fits the top of the jet head perfect because if you strip out the screw head than ur screwed bigtime. If it calls for a #1 common, use a #1 common. Harley-Performance.Com Just my 2 cents

Running Suberb

I agree with SteveO...I installed the Harley CV Performance Stage I Upgrade kit on my 2002 Wide Glide and the hesitations during acceleration are now gone. Strangly, the bike sounds a little different now than the typical Harley sound it had before...still a Harley sound...just a little different. But with the new idle thumb screw backed off 2 1/8 turns from seat and the new stock numbered jets and new needle, the engine runs superb during solid acceleration through all gears. I've gotten only one mild backfire when I rapidly reduced throttle and clutched from an accelerating condition, but otherwise no problems at all. The CV Performance kit was the answer. One thing I did not do while installing the kit is drill out the vacuum hole in the slider...but I did make sure everything was clean. alaitken

Errr, AHHH, not to brag but that baby and the elbow was my puppy. Invented both in about '96 after I got tired of frying my forearms tweaking idle mixtures for AZ stupid EPA tests... That and every other frigging time you wanted to remove the fuel line... crack! Dakota Kid designed the pedestal and actually used a flow bench and something like 100 hours of testing and umpteen variations on the idea. Their Dakota Kid carbs made some serious HP for a CV. It's interesting to see that Bob Yost knocked off my stuff after we (Direct Parts) helped him get on the map in the first place.... :angry: