Have had the trike about 14 months now and 13K on it. We found the trike heat was bearable over the first few months that we had it and put about 3K on it before winter hit. As our 05 Ultra was left bone stock for the 60K plus we put on it, (not even a air cleaner or slip ons) it ran on warm side, so no big difference.
Most heat we felt was from the CAT with engine heat adding to it. I found a guy North of me that cut pipes and removed the CAT. Decided to try this route and also wrapped with header tape and sealed before installing. This dropped the radiant heat allot. Depending on where you get work done, you should be able to do install yourself and spend 150 to 200 on this.
Then I thought I would put on an air clear to let it breath and try the Vision tuner to see if I could get a little more life in the 103. Long story short, The tuning thing was over my head at first. Ran the logs for tuning but messed up the changing of tune. Finally with help from JD on the HD forum, learned what I was doing wrong and low and behold, bike ran better than expected.
I had left the stock mufflers on through this time. After getting it tuned for this setup, I found I did not care for the sound of the stock mufflers.
To me it now sounded like a stock setup with a couple of large leaks. I had a set of SE slip ons from an older Road Glide. Welded nuts on them and installed on Trike. Ran a few more tuning logs and adjusted tune. Very impressed with power gained. I do not have an oil temp gauge but the vision tuner, if left mounted, has a head temperature gauge you can setup. While I had the tune messed up. I did at times see 280 plus in stop and go traffic. Now the highest head temps I see are 250 (stop and go) and when moving always around 240.
Overall I have spent 600 for tuner / air cleaner and header wrap and traded a set of my lift brackets for the gutted stock pipe and had the used mufflers. Feel this is less than I would have spent at dealer for some mufflers, air cleaner and a down load and now if I do make changes, I can re-tune myself.
The key on mine, was dumping the stock mufflers, it finally came more alive then.
I was hoping I could keep it more quite but so is life, not real loud and bike runs great now.
So life with a T Glide doesn't need a second mortgage to make it enjoyable, it was great to begin with, now it is superb!!! No regrets.
All this to get back at the EPA.
Whats you story?
Most heat we felt was from the CAT with engine heat adding to it. I found a guy North of me that cut pipes and removed the CAT. Decided to try this route and also wrapped with header tape and sealed before installing. This dropped the radiant heat allot. Depending on where you get work done, you should be able to do install yourself and spend 150 to 200 on this.
Then I thought I would put on an air clear to let it breath and try the Vision tuner to see if I could get a little more life in the 103. Long story short, The tuning thing was over my head at first. Ran the logs for tuning but messed up the changing of tune. Finally with help from JD on the HD forum, learned what I was doing wrong and low and behold, bike ran better than expected.
I had left the stock mufflers on through this time. After getting it tuned for this setup, I found I did not care for the sound of the stock mufflers.
To me it now sounded like a stock setup with a couple of large leaks. I had a set of SE slip ons from an older Road Glide. Welded nuts on them and installed on Trike. Ran a few more tuning logs and adjusted tune. Very impressed with power gained. I do not have an oil temp gauge but the vision tuner, if left mounted, has a head temperature gauge you can setup. While I had the tune messed up. I did at times see 280 plus in stop and go traffic. Now the highest head temps I see are 250 (stop and go) and when moving always around 240.
Overall I have spent 600 for tuner / air cleaner and header wrap and traded a set of my lift brackets for the gutted stock pipe and had the used mufflers. Feel this is less than I would have spent at dealer for some mufflers, air cleaner and a down load and now if I do make changes, I can re-tune myself.
The key on mine, was dumping the stock mufflers, it finally came more alive then.
I was hoping I could keep it more quite but so is life, not real loud and bike runs great now.
So life with a T Glide doesn't need a second mortgage to make it enjoyable, it was great to begin with, now it is superb!!! No regrets.
All this to get back at the EPA.
Whats you story?
