G Day I have a  07 Softail  103 cci with 211 cams 0.30 cometic jaskets heavy breather standard throttle body big shot exhaust allready upgraded to a heavier starter motor and battery but I am still have problems with cold and hot starts I am running TTS mastertune Do i need comression release or is my TTS map at fault bike runs flawlesy but just loads up on first cold crank and Hot crank any ideas would be appreciated cheers Stevo.

Cheers Kiwi Rob Looks like compression Releases my heads are stock but have flat top pistons as part of 103 kit It seemed to start a lot easier when it had the Thundermax on Then when i went to tts Its seemed to cause hard starting problems .the motors done 30000 kays since the kit was done cheers Steve .

I have the same combo as you 10.4:1 comp but with crane 320 cams.

cold it will just turn over with a new battery but baulks on the starter once in a while when hot, have fitted manual compression releases & alls good.

cheers Yob

cheers for that looks i will have to go down the same path Heads off again bugger .

95'hi comp pistons,se heads with manual comp release,mikuni,211 cams still on same battery when build was done 41/2 years ago battery still ok so comp releases do help

Have the same probelm with my bike.

Bites back on the starter. coughs out through the throttle body cold or hot but mainly when it is warm to hot..

Was told to look at the primary compensator and change it out with a SE version.

Was told to look for metal on the magnet in the primary as well

Bike has done 37,000 km

Have the parts on order and will be changing them out through the week

Will let you know if it fixes the problem

Hi Dynoharley,
Your are clearly one of the lucky ones. As apposed to the countless customers that have paid me their hard earned to repair their starter motors and replace their ring gears after the teeth have been broken off. Even the engines with decomp buttens are a problem because the owners admit they dont push them all the time.
That is why we only use the S&S easy start cams. Amazing hassle free starting.
Cheers Brian.

Thanks for your input I will bee looking into manual compression releases cheers .p.s anyone in w.a have there Heads machined to take manual Releases and how mutch cheers .

 Harris Engines in Ozzy Park and Galloways (I think thats their name) in Pinjarra do them. Sorry, dont know how much.

There are adjustments that can be made to aid in starting but the ECM can only do so much. It must issue spark and fuel in order to get the engine to run and keep running. If the starter cannot spin it over in all conditions there is nothing any ECM can do about it. If you would like some help checking your calibration send me a copy of what you have in it and I can take a look at it for you.
 

Cheers for the replys Steve Cole i cant seem to find any maps after installing my tts mastertune to my pc even after installing updates ,

Installed everything with updater still know files Steve Cole .

Still nothing installed disc again and all the updates still no mt8 files my disc is 5 years old no mt8 on my pc click on big  twin it ays no files istalled this before no problems got me stuffed lol.

Cheers Hilly will check it out .

All good didnt upload historic files all there now cheers .next is to get compression releases done ,