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Originally Posted by blaine
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Originally Posted by mrlmd1
Those are a complete waste of time, energy and money. If you want more power, spend the money investing in a larger bike.
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Most certainly not a waste of time, energy and money. My bike had more power,idled better,started easier when cold,and handled the highway easier.I'm not one to waste time,or money.I have a bigger bike and still have done many performance mods to it.
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There are exceptions to every rule and statement, and for a very knowledgeable, educated, mechanically inclined individual (like you), there may be some payoff, either real or imagined, but for the most part, with the newbies on here, I stand by my statement. Most of the mods newbies are doing lead to having to constantly fiddle and adjust things to get it right, or even to get it to run at all. Do you have, or does anyone have, an idea of the dollar and time cost per horsepower increase to maybe eek out 1 or 2 extra HP from this bike?, and as a contrast, what you could get for that some increase in cost for a bigger more powerful bike? We are not considering the pride and happiness factor, which may be worth the monetary and time investment. It's just my opinion, but I do not think most of these mods lead to any real significant improvement in power, and most reduce gas mileage and reliability.
Most bikes, cars, internal combustion engines run better in the cold and may even start easier due to the difference in air density when cold (not talking about really cold when thick oil impedes starter/engine rotation). The same reason bikes run better at sealevel than they do at 8000' altitude unless you readjust carburetor jetting. Sailboats perform better in cold air than they do in 90 degrees also, due to higher density air (more air molecules hitting on the sails).
And some people seem to relish the idea that they can now start their bike without the choke, it's like a macho thing. So they run richer at all times, possibly a tiny bit more power, again, what happens to their mileage? It's all a trade-off and you take your pick of what you want.
No one has ever come on here with dyno testing before and after their mods to prove the performance increase, or 0-60 times, or any other objective data to support their subjective opinion that their bike has been greatly improved, and that's something I would like to see. I'm not saying don't do this, whatever turns you on, I would just like someone to prove that any of this really makes that big of a difference.
