V-Twin FTW

[Porkchop]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Got out of work early... Did some work... Finalized the wiring runs and mapped out my exhaust hangers... Sorta figured out how I'm gonna mount the gauges.

What are you doing with the pipes? Are you shortening them? Or high mound?

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

What are you doing with the pipes? Are you shortening them? Or high mound?

Uhhh huhuhuh... he said 'mound'..

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

Uhhh huhuhuh... he said 'mound'..

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

What are you doing with the pipes? Are you shortening them? Or high mound?

I think the shorty pipes look like shit on the TL's but a nice set of high MOUNTS would look prety good

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

What are you doing with the pipes? Are you shortening them? Or high mound?

For now they stay as-is... sorta the old school chopper look, minus the ugly shark fin bullshit:

Originally Posted by tommymac

I think the shorty pipes look like shit on the TL's but a nice set of high MOUNTS would look prety good

Honestly I can't decide what the hell I'm doing back there... Shortening the cans has been the one thing I keep going back to, but I can't get any good info on the effects because 1/3 the guys who do it say it robs power significantly, 1/3 say it makes more power and the other 1/3 say there's no change.

Until I have the money to be pissing around with some different options and paying for dyno tuning, they'll stay long and strong. That said, I'd love to rock something like this, perhaps in a high mount:

[OneSickPsycho]

Also looking at airbox mods currently... breathing is a big problem for these things, so I'm investigating what to do...

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Also looking at airbox mods currently... breathing is a big problem for these things, so I'm investigating what to do...

werent there a few mods with cutting out hte flapper valve or soemthing. I kinda remember that from the TL forums. I never did anything to my airbox though.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by tommymac

I think the shorty pipes look like shit on the TL's but a nice set of high MOUNTS would look prety good

Agree.


Damn, I still want a TL. Such awesome bikes.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by marko138

Agree.


Damn, I still want a TL. Such awesome bikes.

theres still a bunch of em out there. I am almost done taking the futura apart, just have th emotor and frame ot deal with, once thats done I will start bringing my tl parts over from my dads and hopefully do soem assembly over the winter.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by tommymac

werent there a few mods with cutting out hte flapper valve or soemthing. I kinda remember that from the TL forums. I never did anything to my airbox though.

Yeah, the flapperectomy and filter base plate mods are done on mine... I was just poking around and found that there are a number of aftermarket airbox solutions out there that make significant improvments... and a number of DIY solutions with varying results. I'm trying to sift thorugh the garbage to find something definitive because from what I gather there's free HP to be found here... the Bimota's used the same engine, but got something like 10% more HP out of them, so there's something going on... hopefully it's free!

Originally Posted by tommymac

theres still a bunch of em out there. I am almost done taking the futura apart, just have th emotor and frame ot deal with, once thats done I will start bringing my tl parts over from my dads and hopefully do soem assembly over the winter after I give my wheels and rearsets to OSP.

Fixed.