Well, the Dyna3000 arrived Saturday in the mail. My wife is a gear head in training (she did her own brakes last week with some supervision on her car), and wanted to do the work. So, we did an oil change first, and then the Dyna3000 install - only thing I actually did other than supervise was loosen the oil filter - some crazy psycho that owned the bike previously (just bought in in Jan. 2011) had that thing on there insano tight, I needed a filter socket and a ratchet. And, I helped with getting the screw back by the airbox back in with the new ignition, crazy tight spot. With those two exceptions, she did all the work. The Dyna 3000 probably took a little over an hour, start to finish, with me doing a lot of teaching on the way.
I went with curve 4 and a 9500rpm limit. Had to turn the idle down a touch, it actually seems to hunt a bit more than it used to with the stock ignition, probably the advance carrying it a little faster on a bit less fuel, so a little fueling irregularity is more noticeable. The advance feels great, definitely a touch stronger in the middle - and at cruise the bike always seems to be accelerating with even the lightest of throttle inputs. I don't know about the top end yet, once I get my Supertrapps I should have the jetting back closer to where it should be, I know its a bit rich at present running open headers. I had removed the stock exhaust thinking I'd have the exhaust by now, but Supertrapp is holding things up a bit.
The limiter works - I must have some error in my stock tach, because it doesn't cut in until about 10,000rpm indicated, I assume this is probably just an optimistic OE tachometer. Anybody else have this, the stock tach reading high, at higher revs? I know its not uncommon, I think every vehicle/bike I've had that I've had an aftermarket, accurate tach on, revealed some stock tach error.
Next stop will be a Harlen shift light - but at least in the mean time I won't be putting the motor at risk if I miss a shift, or stretch a gear a bit too long. I wish there was a 9250rpm setting for the dyna, so I could set a shift light for 8750, to catch a shift at just over 9000rpm. I'm not sure I want to drop the dyna to 9000, we'll see.
