The engien does not have to come out to change the rods and Bob can get some crower rods for you I have them in mine the install was easy. Of course I must point out to you that the OEM rods are a great set and have been holding up well. But hey if you have money to burn or just want piece of mind like I did then he can get them. They are the best after market rods readily available the only others are Corrilla rods which Bob does not like or promote he will explan why. Now as for the Clutch you can beef the basket up by sending your to MTC and they will install a billet forged basket with larger rivets. They have fibers but Bob uses some special Busa fibers in the shop bike. there has only been two clutch baskets that have exploded that I know of which both had turbo's on the bike. The turbo kits available hit hard at low rpms and run out of snoot at 5500 to 6000 which are worthles on a High rpm motor. They are to small but the smaller ones do not have turbo lag and work well on a low rpm motor.You won't win races with them (same with the low rpm superchager kits) but you sure will have fun
I did find some wear on my basket in the back spring seats but it never exploded and I have been known to abuse my bike on a regular basis. As far as I know I am the only one who has grenaded the internal clutch hub which there is no after market hubs available so I went right back with another OEM one and have had no problems thus far I did add longer clutch spring bolts as I found the OEM ones did not go into the body of the hub they stop right before the fillet radius in the spring towers. IMO longer ones were needed for better strength.
Now all this being said I spent a lot more on my bike then would have been needed because I already had a Supercharger and well as some of thepeople from Oz might say I am a bit of a nutter
My advice to you is if your just going to maintain spunking around on the road go with the 240 kit I believe if you know what your doing you will be in the 9's even with your weight. When I first hit the drag strip I was in the 9's with just the TTS kit and a 7500 rpm shift point. (And I surley am no drag racer) My point being is why waste money you will only use once in a while. If you ask some of the guys with the 240 kit who has really turned them on (shift when there is not more tach numbers) they will tell you you will be ****ting your drawers. I am not sure because a lot of them have not fully used the power band yet but will tell you its a monster at 7500 or so.
Now the best horse power on Bobs kits have been with his pipe which is not included in the kit. Nether is the PCV. Also the high HP is tuned with just the OEM stacks not any filters. I believe th ebest power after installing filter is with the 1770 filters. You can always pull the filter when you race at the strip and put them back on for the road. So what filters do you run or should you run is really dependent on the owners. Every Captain has ther own opinion on how they want their beast to look. so I have seen a varriety of filters on his kits. Things to take in mind is the size of the captain and what they like the 1770 and the other larger 4041-1, the small 2780's which fit under the bear claw are what I have seen on the kits. Myself I went with a piper cross set up I adapted to a stocker.
Now when I built this filter set up I was looking at eventually getting a 240 kit for the bike so I went with the laargest highest rated bulk horse power filter Pipercross had. and moved it forward so my knee would clear it. If I had not wrecked it I most likely would have tried different sized filters and tested them to find out how small I could go and yet still keep the hp. So I must admit it has not been on a dyno so I cannot tell you its true performance. All I can say is from using the A/F meter on the bike I had to add fuel do to more intake air entering the engine. I suspect it would work nicely on a Carpenter engine. I also designed it to house both AIT and atmospheric pressure sensors the bike has. I am looking at a 09 Classic as a second stead and it will have this filter and a Carpenter pipe on it. And who knows eventually a Carpenter kit
In a nut shell most filters are what the operator likes and what he wants to do with it.
I have overloaded you enough with this response so I will let you read it so it soaks in. I will say build you bike how you like it even if you have to give up a couple ponies.
Hope its helps you make some desisions.
