Harley XLHF Fatster 1st startup - without exhaust pipes :-D

@ Long Lake Customs, Pitkäjärvi, Finland.
After six years of working on and off on my personal custom Harley project me and my brother Harto spent a whopping 18 hours straight installing controls, hoses, cables, oil cooler, tanks and welding a complicated custom wiring harness for the bike. After testing the electrics and to our surprise everything working as planned, we couldn't resist firing up the bike even though the pipes aren't installed yet and even the fuel tank isn't connected. Squirted some gas into the fuel hose and the beast came alive for the first time in six years!
Nice blue exhaust flames! Who needs exhaust pipes! :-D
This bike started out as a basic 1995 XLH883 and is now a seriously tuned up 1210cc Sportster with modified high compression heads and bigger valves, tricked out Keihin CV40 carb with Yost Powertube, Dyna 2000i ignition, Vance&Hines Straight Shots (to be installed tomorrow), Progressive Suspension shocks, 1200cc sportster front pulley, shovelhead sidecar triple trees, midway front end, apehangers, Fat Boy wheels and front fender, huge Panhead style tanks and more special & custom parts than I can list here. The only parts not altered are the frame (sans tank fitting), gearbox (sans the pulley) and the crankcase.
The flame paintjob is done with chrome paint and white pinstripes on a sligthly flaked black background by TimFix (www.timfix.com). Beautiful and skilled work, I highly recommend their service if you can afford to wait a while for a superb quality paintjob.
This bike was my first Harley and having sold my daily driver Fat Boy (with open belt and a bunch of custom work of course) it's currently my only bike. It truly is my pride and joy.
As Borat would put it: "Veery nice"
Huge thanks to Harto, Kuuskoneistus, TimFix, SGN bikes service Helsinki for the Road King speedo wiring schematics and connectors, V-Twin City, Part Master, MMC, Bike Line Sweden, all the ebay suppliers in USA I've used and all the friends who have pitched in.
And a special gratitude goes to Tanja for calling my nearly stock Sportster a girly bike. That was the spark I needed to enbark on this project :-D

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[henkkaj73]

@crackerhigher03 Nah. Certainly it's true that you could burn a valve if you rode your bike without headers but letting the engine run at near idle for under 7 seconds is not going to do anything to your motor, I've now put about 20 thousand km on this baby and it still tops around 200km/h with both me, missus and three huge bags full of gear.

Nevertheless, a worthy word of caution: driving/warming up without exhaust manifold is going to damage your valves since they'll cool too fast.

[crackerhigher03]

Great way to drop a valve.