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I have a fresh top end on my 97 883. I have factory Thunderstorms buell 10.5 1205 pistons and N4 cams. I have only 8 miles on my top end and decided to check my compression. It reads 135'ish in both but when I add a little oil to the cylinder it jumps up to 180+. I expected this but am curious as to what the reading should be at after break-in. Also I would love to hear how you personally break-in your engines. I have always been in the "school of thought" that you should break it in how you ride it. I am always heavy on the throttle and never seem to have any problEms.

I have a fresh top end on my 97 883. I have factory Thunderstorms buell 10.5 1205 pistons and N4 cams. I have only 8 miles on my top end and decided to check my compression. It reads 135'ish in both but when I add a little oil to the cylinder it jumps up to 180+. I expected this but am curious as to what the reading should be at after break-in. Also I would love to hear how any of you personally break-in your engines. I have always been in the "school of thought" that you should break it in how you ride it. I am always heavy on the throttle and never seem to have any problEms.

I know there are no less than 10,000 post on here about pipes, but I still haven't seen what I was lookin for, so I might as well ask Has anyone heard/ran the V&H big radius pipes and/or shortshots. Also any thoughts on Ness's 90 degree Velocity stack w/ k&n filter? I am looking for a lil better performance and don't care about MPG (I still get better than most tuna can on wheels anyways). I think they just look sharp. Thanks for yer input.

I have just finished my top end conversion on my 97 883. I have factory thunderstorm heads 1205 10.5 CR piston and n4 cams w/screamin eagle ignition mudule. I have heard a lot of thoeries on timing but was wondering if anyone could help. I need to set the timing and was wondering where i should set the timing? Advanced? what degree?

Thanks, any help would be great

I have a 2000 flht that has been running poorly (to rich it think) burps and spits out the AC lots of carbon on the plugs,won't idle and the check engine light has been on for quite some time. I added a power commander that I mapped and still it runs the same w/ the engine light on. I just washed it after switching to the stock ECM to see if the engine light would go off. I started it up and let it idle for a couple minutes and then it died (like it always does when I touch the throttle) and wouldn't restart. I check for spark and had nothing. I pulled the ECM off and notice I forgot to put the dust boot on and there was some water accumulated around the ECM. I have tried drying it out but I still get no spark. I need help. Could I have fried the ECM????