$9000 tachometer

Tripps

Tripps

Retired superhero
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Oct 9, 2010
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Location
Florida and NY
Ride
R3T,Sprintona,K1200GT, Blackbird,r/65 hack
Carpenter 240 package-$6200

Polished Stainless Brute pipes-$1500

Power commander + AT + LCD display- $700

2 round trips to NJ and back- about $400

Finally having a tach - priceless!

I dropped my bike off at Carpenter yesterday, Bob is really a class act, really a nice guy, showed me around his setup and everything, said if I needed a Saturday pickup when it was done he'd meet me there on a Saturday.

I've wanted a tach if I got the Carpenter package, I've yet to find anyone who got a tach to work on the Touring, no output for it or something. Powercommander sells an optional LCD display that will supposedly show realtime info, including RPM and gear position, the tech department at PC confirmed it would work on my bike. Bob seemed a little hesitant, he said they normally only program them, but he said he'd take a look at it and see what he could do. He also agreed to weld an extra section of straight pipe into the muffler system, so the exhaust didn't end under the middle of the bags, I didn't like that idea, I told him I keep my beer in the bags, I didn't want it getting warm. ;). He is going to run it with both stacks and the 1770 K&Ns, see what the difference is, he hadn't seen the 1770s , or the rain covers before.
The LCD says it lets you switch between multiple maps, we'll see. Bob didn't know about Velocity of Sound, I talked to them after several contact attempts, they will make them (stacks) pretty reasonable, I told Bob I'd send him a link. I think they said about $40 each, $120-something for a set of 3, I am going to try to make a Pipercross filter with stacks like Warp did.

My only disappointment was not getting to meet Art.
 
Keep us updated would like to know how it goes I want a tech to
 
Well, Bob called, she'd done. It hit 241 hp and 184 ft lbs on the second dyno pull, Bob said that's excellent, it usually takes at least 3 or 4 pulls. I think I'm going to ride down Wednesday, stay overnight, and ride back Thursday. It was a 17 hour round trip taking it down, too much for 1 day.
 
the avatar on the left is what remains of my "built" 04 lowrider, the 95 c.i. htcc engine build doubled the power of a tc88 at the cost of reliability. A screamin eagle lifter roller broke! If I get the carpenter kit i'll enjoy it and will sooner or later find the single piece of metal in my engine that can't handle the hp, tq, rpm's, whatever and be left with an expensive steaming pile. The union jobs are all gone and I can't afford to go faster than stock, Lucky for me I own a rocket.
 
I .understand the principle, but a lot of Carpenter kits out there, and not many failures yet. One premature cam wear from using car oil, and of course Warp putting a supercharger on top of it, that's about all I've heard of. And Warp has quite a few miles on his latest edition, once he got it sorted. Harleys are air cooled, whole different animal.
 
Trust me, I did worry about longevity, I had the money in a cookie jar for a year before I determined to make the plunge. But the failures I feared never came, at least not on the forums.
 
It looks like really good riding weather for your return with the upgraded beast, if you ever take a break from riding a detailed report would be pretty cool.
 
One should not compare my engine set up to the Carpenter Kit. One of the major reasons is the kit was not designed to run with a Supercharger. Adding boost on top of a high compression engine can be detrimental to the engine if for nothing else getting consistency of fuel at the pump I have a little over 10,000 miles on mine and have found a few weak links none of them has shown up in the Carpenter NA kit.
Now I have always stated if I had known about Bob Carpenter designing a kit I would most likely have never went with forced air. That being said I must also admit I am addicted to horsepower and am glad I chose not to suffer a loss from selling the supercharger kit and merging them together. One must also consider how you are going to operate your bike which can make a pronounce difference in the longevity of the motor. I probably am one of the riders that thrash my motor constantly compared to others and therefore I would suspect I would have more problems than others would. The stress of boost on the high compression in the cylinders, stress placed on the front of the crankshaft compiled with the dangers of detonation can take its toll on the engine. Most of this if not all of it will not be experienced with the Carpenter NA kit.
I am prepared to replace the engine if it suffers premature failure due to having the extra fun I am with it. As long as I do not wreck the bike, I can stuff a newer motor with a Carpenter kit in it quickly. Especially since, you cannot get floorboard kits anymore. I also believe there is less problems out there with the older ecu’s then the newer ones especially when adding filtercarb like ABS to the system.
 
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