By now everyone’s well aware of the need for a performance tune-up on a fuel-injected Harley. Free-flowing pipes, a performance air filter, high-lift cams, and big-bore kits, they all call for a fuel-delivery and ignition advance remap. Even bone-stock bikes get a huge boost in performance and ridability after some tweaking to the signals the ECM sends out to those injectors. And with all those Power Commanders, FuelPaks, ThunderMaxes, and Twin Tuners out there, everyone knows how that performance tune happens.

But technology doesn’t stand still and neither does Harley-Davidson. Starting with 2011 Softail models and now spreading to more of the H-D lineup, the wiring and sensors on those FI bikes, the electronic highway calling the shots, is brand new. The old J1850 data bus has given way to a new CAN bus system, and the difference in speed between the two can be compared to the difference between an old dial-up modem and that whiz-bang turbocharged cable connection you have. New and smaller 12mm oxygen sensors in the pipes do a better job, too. Besides being repositioned deeper into the exhaust flow, they’ve been redesigned to provide a much more accurate signal. What does all this mean? Those old and familiar Power Commanders, Twin Tuners, ThunderMaxes, FuelPaks, and so on are no longer compatible with the new CAN bus system. But just as Harley’s moved forward so has the aftermarket, and more than just re-jiggering some connections to make things compatible with the new Harley-Davidson wiring. Those aftermarket wizards have taken this opportunity to do some significant upgrading themselves. The performance-tuning hardware and software developed for these new applications is stronger, more powerful, more feature-packed, and easier than ever to install and use. What some of these new units offer boggles the mind. Space doesn’t permit a detailed explanation of every one of these new tuners but a quick look at Dynojet’s just-released Power Vision is an eye opener.

“We just came back from a week of training at Dynojet’s Las Vegas facility,” Jason Hanson, the dyno operator at Speed’s Performance Plus, says. “And to say that we’re impressed at what we saw there is an understatement.” Longtime users of the Power Commander, the guys at SPP got a hands-on look at the future. Performance-tuning a fuel-injected Harley just got quicker, easier, and better than ever. Power Vision and its suite of included software is offered in two versions, both compatible with the Delphi ECM (PV1 for bikes with the older J1850 data bus, PV2 for those newest bikes with the CAN bus), and it does it all and then some with a compact, easy-to-use touchscreen display that mounts right up on the handlebars. No computers needed. You simply plug the Power Vision’s interface cable into the bike’s diagnostic port, select and save one or more of the performance tunes Dynojet’s already developed or start writing your own, then download the choice into the stock ECM, all with on-screen prompts. You never touch a computer.

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Those aftermarket wizards have taken this opportunity to do some significant upgrading themselves.