Triumphrat

dazco · 07-28-2005

I've been going crazy trying to determine what pipes to get, what i should or shouldn't do to the airbox, whether to rejet and if so how, and a million other questions. And no matter how many time people tell me "hey, it's easy to rejet", i can give you a lot of reasons why it's not till you've learned all the tricks. And the infinate combinations of mods and parts makes for too much confusion.

The biggest problem with trying to follow advice here is that you have a few different twin models and a dozen or more different pipes, and everyone goes about it differently. So there is no set way to go about tuning a given bike/pipe combination. So i suggest a member database in which members can submit thier stats including bike model/year, what non stock parts it has and what mods and what settings and jets were used. Then a comment section where they'd be prompted to offer thier description of how the bike improved, how much it improved, dyno numbers if available, and a general description of the overall ride and performance compared to the stock bike.

For example, say you have a bike like mine, a 05' 856cc speedmaster and lets say i want staintunes. If we had a member base of tuning stats then i could go there and look into those who have an 05 speedy and staintunes and see exactly what jets he used and any other info. And if his comments show that the bike has improved immensly and there are no negitive affects, then i can go with those pipes,jetting and settings and know that i'm going to be close if not right on the money, WITHOUT having to go thru a long tedious tuning process.

Bonnevilleamerica.com has one, i know. But it's nothing like i described. It offers little to no information. Most submissions don't even add comments and are virtually worthless to those reading them.

To sum up, what would make this valuable are these 2 things.....

1)-a COMPLETE description of EVERY detail thats been changed over the stock bike including and most importantly jetting.

2)- a COMPLETE and detailed description of how the bike runs compared to the stock bike....power/torque increase and any negitives such as popping or dips, etc.

Knowing exactly what the person did who has your same bike and pipes and got results that meet your needs/desires would allow you to make the same changes with no guesswork and end up with what you want, bypassing what in many cases (from all i've read here and elsewhere) a long tedious process that probably deter many from going for it ! I know it's definatly detered me which is why i'll probably go with thunderbike pipes due to the "no rejetting" they advertise. But even then if there were a base like this i could see what those who DID rejet and do air mods with Tbike's got out of them.

I know this probably won't happen because one lowly member suggested it, but still i just had to see what others think. Maybe, just maybe, if this gets a lot of good response someone will at least consider the possibility. Maybe it's just me, but the way i see it this would be absolutly invaluable, more so than anything i've seen on this site or elsewhere.