Re: Harley Davidson Superlow XL883L - The Comprehensive Review In continuation to the previous fitment of Vance & Hines Straight Shots Staggered Exhausts (part #17227), got this Vance & Hines equipment for my friend's Fat Bob from JP Cycles and fitted it today -
Vance & Hines VO2 Free Flowing Air Intake Kit
& Vance & Hines LCD Fuelpak
in hand size
Now point to be asserted was that the Straight Shots should NEVER be used alone as they can damage the engine due to their ultra free flowing nature. They have to be used in conjunction with a Free Flow Air Intake kit and with the FuelPak piggy riding on the ECU. So this equipment was bought in. Fitting took about 1 hour for both and was a pretty simple affair with the installation instructions included.
Point to be careful about -
1. The left side ECU cover needs to be opened up and further semi detached from the body by removing 2 top bolts (under the seat) and one centre bolt holding it in place. Without doing this the Fuel Pak wire cannot be routed through with the final resting place of the fuelpak being under the seat.
2. The original cover of the Air Filter is reused without any body below it!! Now the air suction is from the entire open rear of the cover! Except the cover the entire kit is supplied by V&H with a oil lubricated filter element.
3. The following settings need to be carefully entered in the fuelpak which were created on their website after entering correct equipment like the model of the exhausts etc.
Observation post install -
The bike has smoothened tremendously as the engine is breathing more freely. The exhaust note has reduced marginally as the engine is not sounding constipated anymore and there is less stress on it now. Acceleration and BHP figures have increased by about 15%.
This Fat Bob is one delicious package now...
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Planned a drive down to Nainital with 6 of our 'Mutineers' joining the Capital Chapter on the 18th to 20th of April. Anybody interested in this region is free to join in. This will be the longest drive I will have undertaken on two wheels and will test the bikes capability fully as there are some fairly bad patches of roads en-route. This ride, I hope, will settle the ground clearance issue raised time and again for the Superlow by its critics once and for all. Right now enjoying the Superlow tremendously as an everyday ride bike which I can maneuver and take anywhere easily. I can safely say that it is the most comfortable bike in the Sportster family.
But the ride I would definitely give an arm and leg to join would be this one that fellow HOGs have undertaken recently to the Pyramids of GIZA -
One day soon...
Last edited by dkaile : 22nd March 2014 at 16:40.
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