Where do I start lol.
I'd suggest reading the CVO forums first. Those guys have been figuring out the "niggles" with these engine for the last 10 year.
The big one is Lifters, which in turn is caused by too heavy valve springs. The CVO cam (which is a SE255) profile creates insane CCP and cylinder pressure. It can create difficult starting. Speaking of which how are you going to toggle the ACR's? Manual release?
I've killed 2 lifters in 8,000km's. Luckily before the needle bearings let go both times. But they made the dreaded "mouse screech" noise and a clacking on cold startup when they didn't pump the lifter up. The bike gets absolutely hammered though.
Now because the lifter goes bad, you can starve the head of oil. Or the bearing in the lifter goes south, goes through the cam chest/oil pump and through the whole oiling system.
The compression ratio is so low that a simple cam swap does not render the gains that you would expect from a regular 103. However there are some cams out there that do wake them up. But more targeted towards the heavier touring bikes.
Still interested.....
The good bits, the heads are decent. Bigger ports and as mentioned higher rate springs. Can make good power untouched but like anything can do with a tidy up.
The 255 cam is great in my opinion, I don't care what people say, any cam that's making 115ft lb at 3k rpm you can feel a good surge of grunt. It does sign off at 5k rpm but just click another cog and it's all good. Great for mountain carving.
For a stock motor they are pretty stout, mines making 95/117 with just exhaust and tune. Enough for a high 11 at 108mph and will make mince meat out of a tyre in 1st and 2nd.
Any other questions just ask, few of us have these 110's, I think I've been pretty unlucky with my ownership but others here have had years of fault free service.
if its for FXR I'd just bite the bullet and go V111 and live on 2 minute noodles
ACR's can be toggled via the tune, the whole issue was it wasn't actually doing anything hence the big 110ci recall.
Didn't he say it'll be running a carb ?
Not too concerned about cosmetics, as far as finish is concerned.
That's the one Speedzter, seem to be pretty common among TC swaps for Evos.
I have had my 2008 FXSTSSE2 110cube CVO Springer ( what a mouthful !) for 7 years now , absolutely trouble free to date.
Stock OEM EVERYTHING bar the V&H Big Shot Staggered ( which would not have been my first choice but were on it in Central Texas in 2011 )
The bike goes hard , and I like the 255 "spank" that comes as stock in all 110 CVO models.
Now I am anal ( ain't we all !) with 4,000 Km oil and filter changes , Fully Synthetic oil and OEM "genuine" filters. Oil cooler fitted as soon as I got the bike to WA.
Redline Heavy Shockproof gear oil in the 6 speed and Redline MTL in the primary drive. Tuned firstly with original up to 2008 SERT , now with Supertuner pro
No hard revs while cold , no "burnouts" , all "revving" in the mid gears. Perth and WA are pure wanker with speed cameras so NO POINT in going harder here !
Don't go all "environmental" on me Re the 4,000 K's oil changes , every two CVO drains the family shitbox gets the "good oil" haha for the next year.
And yes the shitbox gets the recycled Redline heavy duty gear oil as well....
Not a direct comparison I know , but my Springer would SPANK my mates 2011 Stage 4 "dyno tuned" Streetglide , and he had spent a fortune on all that !
PS , good luck with the carb conversion and the ACR system...too hard basket for me I have to admit !!
