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Jimbo

Hey!
My neighbor's got an America. He thinks he's hitting below the theoretical limit for 1st gear (should be around 48 mph, he's hitting around 40). Being a mostly stock America, it's got no tach. Thinks the rev limiter may be an issue. He bought it used but but it's still under warranty. Trying to decide between enforcing the warranty for a stock revlimiter, or jumping to something that will get him up in the 8000+ range. Can't find a CDI unit for the America to help make the decision. Anybody help? :hammer:

Geoff

I dont know if they are the same, but the rumor is that 2005 and up t-100 has a factory upgraded rev limiter that allows 8000 rpm. maybe he could get one of those.
I ran mine to 8000 in 2nd gear before shifting and no rev limiter cut in, so he may want to try that
Geoff

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dazco

problem is the cruisers havr 270 degree engines, so you can't use the same unit the 360 engines use. Plus the boxes on the market now are for the 360 degree engines which of course are the bonnies and thruxton. There was one mentioned at BA a while back that i think was the first one made for the 270, but i'm not sure whether it was or if it was a mistake on the poster's part. haven't heard anything about it since.

by the way, you can't really go by the speedo because they aren't accurate.

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Jimbo

Thanks, Daz, that's the answer I was looking for. I think he's convinced that the existing rev limiter is faulty, so we'll run it down to Doug Douglas in San Bernardino and see what they think about replacing it under warranty.

SmokinJoe

My america has a tach, and the rev limiter seems to kick in around 7500, like it's supposed to. I tested it just once for a few seconds, just to see what it was like.

From a dead start I accelerated rapidly (but no smoke show), hit the rev limiter in 1st gear, and also 2nd gear, and at that point I just shifted into 3rd gingerly. I'm pretty sure by the time I hit the rev limiter in 2nd I was at about 70mph. I'm satisfied that if I pulled out on a road and suddenly a tractor trailer was on my tail my "wimpy 790" would be able to get me out of trouble.

And that was 2-up :-D