Fuel Moto Pipes and Air Cleaner Install: Quick and Easy Power-Up
01. Jason purchased one of Fuel Moto’s power packages that included the shop’s Jackpot stainless steel 2/1/2 head pipes, Jackpot 4-inch Touring Mufflers, Fuel Moto Stage 1 Air Cleaner kit, and Power Commander Power Vision EFI tuner. Fuel Moto offers its Stage 1 kit, which includes the mufflers, air cleaner kit, and Power Vision (not shown) for $899. The head pipe is $449.
01. Jason purchased one of Fuel Moto’s power packages that included the shop’s Jackpot stainless steel 2/1/2 head pipes, Jackpot 4-inch Touring Mufflers, Fuel Moto Stage 1 Air Cleaner kit, and Power Commander Power Vision EFI tuner. Fuel Moto offers its Stage 1 kit, which includes the mufflers, air cleaner kit, and Power Vision (not shown) for $899. The head pipe is $449.
02. As mentioned earlier, Jamie and his Fuel Moto team spent countless hours doing R&D; on the dyno to develop its head pipes and mufflers. The Jackpot 2/1/2 head pipe was designed for ’09-12 Touring models to achieve the best performance from 96, 103, and 110ci engines. The pipe is made from 304 stainless steel, is CNC-formed, and TIG welded. The pipe has dual 18 and 12mm O2 ports to accommodate stock sensors as well as Wideband sensors for closed-loop tuning modules. It also comes with sensor bung plugs to cap off ports that aren’t being used, and the stock heat shields can be used with the pipes.
03. The Jackpot 4-inch Mufflers are available in slash-down or slash-up versions for ’09-12 Touring models. Jamie tested different baffle designs and lengths as well as different chamber designs to get a set of mufflers that not only perform well but also provide a good note without being too loud or too quiet. The mufflers were redesigned in 2008 to work with Harley’s new underslung head pipe design. The left and right side are chambered differently with an asymmetrical baffle system that uses the right side as the primary muffler and uses the left side to produce maximum low-end torque and horsepower.
04. The Fuel Moto Stage 1 air cleaner kit comes with the backing plate, air cleaner element, and necessary hardware. The reusable and washable cotton/gauze element is designed to provide maximum airflow and work with the stock air cleaner cover, most aftermarket covers, as well as Fuel Moto’s custom billet covers like this clover design.
05. One of the newest products to come from Dynojet (the makers of the popular Power Commander line) is the Power Vision EFI tuner. Designed as a plug ’n’ play ECM flash tuner for ’01-11 Delphi-equipped Harley-Davidsons, the Power Vision features a 3 1/2-inch, full-color, high-resolution touch screen. The unit can be mounted on the bike and used to monitor real-time data or quickly plugged in to install and switch tuning maps. The unit has a large database of preconfigured tunes, which can be custom adjusted via the touch screen.
06. Here’s Jason’s 96ci Street Glide with the stock head pipe, mufflers, and air cleaner.
07. Before starting the installation, Fuel Moto lead tech, Jim, showed us the high-quality craftsmanship of the Jackpot head pipe that includes CNC-machined billet exhaust collars for maximum sealing and engagement into the exhaust ports.
**08. Jim started by installing the stock O2 sensors into the head pipes.
09. With the exhaust flanges and retaining clips slipped onto the new pipe, Jim then fit the pipe to the heads.
10. When designing this head pipe Fuel Moto tried different steps and collectors and found that a true merge collector and a non-stepped primary made the best power overall. According to Fuel Moto its exclusive Jackpot Tandem Flow, large-diameter collectors allow for maximum flow and convergence through the right-side muffler path for maximum performance. Jamie said he chose stainless steel because of its excellent corrosion resistance and heat-dissipation characteristics. The left-side pipe crosses under the chassis like the stock head pipe.
11. With the head pipe loosely mounted, Jim then slipped the Jackpot mufflers onto the head pipe.
12. With the head pipe, mufflers, and stock heat shields installed and tightened up, Jim then began installing the chrome air cleaner backing plate.
13. After the backing plate was installed Jim secured the Fuel Moto air filter element.
14. Next, he bolted on the Fuel Moto billet cover with milled clover design.
15. Jim then removed the left side cover and plugged the Power Vision into the bike’s diagnostic port and turned the Power Vision on.
16. As you can see, the display has an easy-to-read and easy-to-use menu screen with options such as Program Vehicle, Datalog, Vehicle Tools, Settings, Device Info, and Dealer Info.
17. Jim then hit the Program Vehicle button. Aside from the hundreds of preconfigured maps that you can install, the Power Vision can hold six custom maps. Fuel Moto has worked extensively with Dynojet as a technical partner on the development of the Power Vision, so it truly does have in-depth knowledge of the ins and outs of the new unit. Jamie has spent hours on the dyno developing and fine-tuning maps not only for his parts but also for various other part combinations to get the best results.
18. Once Jim found the preconfigured Fuel Moto map he wanted for this setup he clicked on the flash button and the Power Vision quickly flashed the ECM with the new map. One of the cool things about the Power Vision is that it will save your original ECM settings so that if you ever want or need to go back to stock, you can do so.
20. Here’s a rear shot of the Jackpot mufflers. Jason really liked the sound the mufflers put out, the bike had the deep rumble that a Harley should have but wasn’t so loud it rattled his eardrums at speed.
21. Fuel Moto owner and dyno tune specialist Jamie Long. With the stock heat shields covering the stainless exhaust and the simple slash-cut mufflers people would be pretty unsuspecting that this bike makes nearly 100 lb-ft of torque—the perfect sleeper bike.
19. Even though the bike didn’t need to be dyno tuned since it had one of Fuel Moto’s preconfigured maps loaded into it, Jamie rolled the bike into the dyno room to put the newly installed parts to the test anyway. After properly allowing the bike to warm up Jamie made three passes on the dyno and the results spoke for themselves. With a simple head pipe, air cleaner, and muffler swap the 96ci bike went from 65.34hp and 78.16 lb-ft of torque to 80.28hp and 94.41 lb-ft of torque. That’s nearly a 23 percent gain in horsepower and 21 percent gain in torque for about $1,400 in parts. And as you can see in dyno graph, the bike makes nice smooth power with a broad torque range above 90 lb-ft from 3,000 to 4,500 rpm.
Located in Little Chute, Wisconsin, about 120 miles north of Milwaukee, and 25 miles south of Green Bay, Fuel Moto is becoming known as a premier performance shop with extensive product knowledge and tuning skills. While the winter months might shut down the riding season for most of the country, Fuel Moto owner Jamie Long takes advantage of those months by logging thousands of hours on his Dynojet 250i Chassis Dyno tuning bikes, creating precise EFI fuel maps, and experimenting with various power combinations. In fact, it’s with all those hours of testing and experimenting that Jamie was able to use his knowledge of what works to create his own line of Jackpot brand bolt-on power components. From mufflers, head pipes, air cleaner kits, and custom precision EFI maps to support those components, Fuel Moto has a developed a line of parts that were designed to complement each other to achieve the best results. The parts not only perform well, but they look and sound good, are made in the USA from US materials, have a lifetime warranty, and are reasonably priced.
Fuel Moto is also very proud of its customer service and throughout its website you’ll find a direct email address to Jamie where he will quickly reply to any and all of your technical questions. Spending hours on the dyno, you develop a deep understanding of the various components, which Fuel Moto is more than happy to share with its customers. And on its website you’ll find dyno charts, extensive product descriptions, and audio/video clips. As a performance shop, it not only focuses on developing its own products, but also has intricate knowledge of other pipe/muffler/air cleaner/EFI combinations and hop-ups so that it can serve all of its customers’ wants and needs with the best performance results possible. In fact, it is probably because of its vast tuning knowledge and customer service skills that, according to Jamie, nearly 80 percent of its customers come from more than 100 miles away just to have Fuel Moto work on their bikes—a few have even picked up a brand-new bike from Milwaukee and ridden straight to Fuel Moto just to have a new air cleaner, pipes, and fuel tuner installed.
While in the Wisconsin area we stopped at Fuel Moto to see firsthand what the shop was all about. While we were there a new customer, Jason Staniak, rolled in from Steven’s Point with a 2011 96ci Street Glide with a mere 1,300 miles on the odometer. Jason was looking to up the performance of his SG with one of Fuel Moto’s Power Packages, so we snapped away as Jamie’s head tech, Jim Monson, performed the install. HB
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