when you start monkeying with motor mods you open the door to breakage and maintenance issues. but it looks more like a saturday night bike rather than a bike for riding serious miles so you probably wont be far from home when trouble happens. i hope youre good at fixing it.
@vetryder Actually I've never had a problem with the bike I still have it, I've put over 20k miles on it since I did all of the "mods". Just rode it from FL to TN no problems.
@wifimonkey thats good, cuz i've known a lot of occasions where people tweaked and modded their motors and then had problems. i was told by a mechanic that its because these motors arent designed to make a bunch of extra horsepower. theyre designed to ride and enjoy the way they are. if somebody wants power theres Ninjas and CBR's etc.
Hello greatings from Norway:) i have a 1997 sportster xl 883 with a 1200 bore kit., and i want to have the engien tottaly blacked out like you have , but what kind paint did you use? Anders.
@GCANDY100 I used a Hotrod Flat Paint and Baked it on. I had to completely disassemble the motor to do it. You can buy the Harley Flat Black in the Can online it works pretty good just just have to fix the chips every once in a while.
@wifimonkey Okey thanks for the answer:) yeas gonna have to take the engien out anyway because got some kindof bad nocking sound:s, so got some work to do,but its snow outside anyway so:s took the fenders, fuel and oiltank of yeasterday for painting, Still havent decided if I should paint the rims to..
@ivansuarex Heads and the Cams were just purchased from my local HD Dealer when I bought the 1250cc Kit. I had the Sleeves bored for the 1250cc Pistons due to cost was cheaper.
how'd u like the 1250 kit? I'm doing 94' 1250 with stage 2 883 heads and .497 se cam and drag pipes with stock ign and carb. How many miles did u rack on the 1250 was their any probs??? I don't have mine done yet I put the cams in yesterday and fucked a piston ring up and had to stop :(. damn amateurs haha....... it really isn't funny kinda sucks
lol yeah...tongue tied...but you can look at anywhere from $400-$2000 depends on what you wanna do. If you do the full top end like Jugs, Pistons, Heads you can look at atleast $1000 if its all new. If you just do jugs, piston about $400. If you just put the jugs, pistons you will still out run a stock 1200
The bike is all together just having LOTS OF PROBLEMS With the wiring harness I added the nightster turn signals and now nothing on the bike works! hmmm just trial and error
thanks! I'm currently doing a 100% rebuild on the bike as a winter project...Have it striped to the bone and going to repaint the bike the same colors just in hotrod flatz and ive also sent the case off to have bored for the 90' kit as well as stage 3 head job...im making a video of the build should be done by late feb early march
Good music and cool bike.
bpurdy305 1 week ago
when you start monkeying with motor mods you open the door to breakage and maintenance issues. but it looks more like a saturday night bike rather than a bike for riding serious miles so you probably wont be far from home when trouble happens. i hope youre good at fixing it.
vetryder 2 months ago
@vetryder Actually I've never had a problem with the bike I still have it, I've put over 20k miles on it since I did all of the "mods". Just rode it from FL to TN no problems.
wifimonkey 2 months ago
@wifimonkey thats good, cuz i've known a lot of occasions where people tweaked and modded their motors and then had problems. i was told by a mechanic that its because these motors arent designed to make a bunch of extra horsepower. theyre designed to ride and enjoy the way they are. if somebody wants power theres Ninjas and CBR's etc.
vetryder 2 months ago
Hello greatings from Norway:) i have a 1997 sportster xl 883 with a 1200 bore kit., and i want to have the engien tottaly blacked out like you have , but what kind paint did you use? Anders.
GCANDY100 2 months ago
@GCANDY100 I used a Hotrod Flat Paint and Baked it on. I had to completely disassemble the motor to do it. You can buy the Harley Flat Black in the Can online it works pretty good just just have to fix the chips every once in a while.
wifimonkey 2 months ago
@wifimonkey Okey thanks for the answer:) yeas gonna have to take the engien out anyway because got some kindof bad nocking sound:s, so got some work to do,but its snow outside anyway so:s took the fenders, fuel and oiltank of yeasterday for painting, Still havent decided if I should paint the rims to..
GCANDY100 2 months ago
@GCANDY100 powdercoat is way better way to go than paint.
airrowhead 1 month ago
where did you get those heads ?? also the cams are for those heads, right ???
ivansuarex 9 months ago
@ivansuarex Heads and the Cams were just purchased from my local HD Dealer when I bought the 1250cc Kit. I had the Sleeves bored for the 1250cc Pistons due to cost was cheaper.
wifimonkey 9 months ago
I think about 70 to 74 horses on experience
wileyx666 1 year ago
Nice Job. :)
Spencerian 2 years ago
haha....you said drill out the muff!
wanderer1031 2 years ago
how'd u like the 1250 kit? I'm doing 94' 1250 with stage 2 883 heads and .497 se cam and drag pipes with stock ign and carb. How many miles did u rack on the 1250 was their any probs??? I don't have mine done yet I put the cams in yesterday and fucked a piston ring up and had to stop :(. damn amateurs haha....... it really isn't funny kinda sucks
moparerrnocar 2 years ago
haha that muffler stutter was hilarious, nice build though. Around what does it cost to do the 883 to 1200 conversion?
StrokedP 3 years ago
lol yeah...tongue tied...but you can look at anywhere from $400-$2000 depends on what you wanna do. If you do the full top end like Jugs, Pistons, Heads you can look at atleast $1000 if its all new. If you just do jugs, piston about $400. If you just put the jugs, pistons you will still out run a stock 1200
wifimonkey 3 years ago
how is the build coming?
paintslinger16 3 years ago
The bike is all together just having LOTS OF PROBLEMS With the wiring harness I added the nightster turn signals and now nothing on the bike works! hmmm just trial and error
wifimonkey 3 years ago
@wifimonkey I found out that when I connected the kit I shorted the unit out, replaced the unit problem fixed all is good.
wifimonkey 2 months ago
Nice bike. No other bike looks like a Sporty. Good background music, too...love Gimme Shelter.
AirCargoHeavy 3 years ago
where can I find a 1250cc kit?
htmn818 3 years ago
thanks! I'm currently doing a 100% rebuild on the bike as a winter project...Have it striped to the bone and going to repaint the bike the same colors just in hotrod flatz and ive also sent the case off to have bored for the 90' kit as well as stage 3 head job...im making a video of the build should be done by late feb early march
wifimonkey 3 years ago
Great job man......respect for you!!!
usamathew 3 years ago
Had it bored yet?
ramdaspadhye 3 years ago
yeah its bored with a 1250cc kit
wifimonkey 3 years ago
I'm about to take the motor and bore the case out for the 90in Kit and have the heads modded into the NHRS Stage 3 also upgrade the exhaust
wifimonkey 3 years ago
dan is good, you'll have a screamer.
NoSweatOffMySack 3 years ago
i dunno anything about bikes but this is very nice!
hoodyGSA 3 years ago