New Member in Ohio
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New Member in Ohio
Hello fellow superhawk owners,
I thought I should introduce myself to the group. My name is Andy I live near Toledo, Ohio. I have a 1999 Hawk that I purchased this past Febuary. It is completely stock except for a set of devil high mounts. It has right around 14,500 miles. The first time I rode a Hawk was four years ago, as soon as I rode that bike I knew I had to have one. Last year when I sold my snowmobiles I started looking. Found one near the Columbus area I liked and bought it. Spent alot of the spring cleaning it up, doing proper maintenance and waiting for the weather to clear up in Ohio. Once it did I realized what a great bike I had purchased.
During the summer my wife and I had our second child. I thought I might need to sell the Hawk due to some financial difficulties, that's why there was a post on here a while back ago with my bike up for sale. Man, I am happy that it didn't sell.
I have been looking at this wonderful website in more detail for upcoming projects this winter to get the bike ready for this spring. Projects that I am looking forward to completing are:
Debaffle Devil exhaust?? (Suggestions please!)
Clean and Sync carbs (What jetting do you recommend for Devil exhaust? I have no idea if jetting has ever been done)
16/43 gears with new chain of course
Intergrated tail light
New brakes
Putting Ohms back to around 500
I know there are threads for most of this work but for some reason I am not finding some of them. I have some knowledge about motorcycles and I work on my own cars but I would be lying if I didn't say was a little nervous to take everything apart with the carbs. Any advice that you do have I would greatly apprectiate.
Thanks,
Andy
I thought I should introduce myself to the group. My name is Andy I live near Toledo, Ohio. I have a 1999 Hawk that I purchased this past Febuary. It is completely stock except for a set of devil high mounts. It has right around 14,500 miles. The first time I rode a Hawk was four years ago, as soon as I rode that bike I knew I had to have one. Last year when I sold my snowmobiles I started looking. Found one near the Columbus area I liked and bought it. Spent alot of the spring cleaning it up, doing proper maintenance and waiting for the weather to clear up in Ohio. Once it did I realized what a great bike I had purchased.
During the summer my wife and I had our second child. I thought I might need to sell the Hawk due to some financial difficulties, that's why there was a post on here a while back ago with my bike up for sale. Man, I am happy that it didn't sell.
I have been looking at this wonderful website in more detail for upcoming projects this winter to get the bike ready for this spring. Projects that I am looking forward to completing are:
Debaffle Devil exhaust?? (Suggestions please!)
Clean and Sync carbs (What jetting do you recommend for Devil exhaust? I have no idea if jetting has ever been done)
16/43 gears with new chain of course
Intergrated tail light
New brakes
Putting Ohms back to around 500
I know there are threads for most of this work but for some reason I am not finding some of them. I have some knowledge about motorcycles and I work on my own cars but I would be lying if I didn't say was a little nervous to take everything apart with the carbs. Any advice that you do have I would greatly apprectiate.
Thanks,
Andy
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I used this site to help me go through cleaning the carbs:
http://cycles.evanfell.com/2008/09/h...the-right-way/
The pics helped a lot- it's an I4 engine, but pretty easy to get the picture.
http://cycles.evanfell.com/2008/09/h...the-right-way/
The pics helped a lot- it's an I4 engine, but pretty easy to get the picture.
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From: Houston, TX
Projects that I am looking forward to completing are:
Debaffle Devil exhaust?? (Suggestions please!)
I'm pretty sure those are just straight through mufflers, so unless you want your bike to sound like a straight pipe Harley I'd leave them alone. Straight through exhaust is not fun, and just pisses people off. Especially small children and old ladies when you rap the exhaust when they're walking down the sidewalk LOL.
Clean and Sync carbs (What jetting do you recommend for Devil exhaust? I have no idea if jetting has ever been done)
Chances are you won't need to clean the carbs. Unless gas has sat and dried up in them they should be fine. Can't help you with jet numbers, but there have been lots of threads with good advice. Post everything thats been done to your motor and someone should come along and give you a ballpark number.
Debaffle Devil exhaust?? (Suggestions please!)
I'm pretty sure those are just straight through mufflers, so unless you want your bike to sound like a straight pipe Harley I'd leave them alone. Straight through exhaust is not fun, and just pisses people off. Especially small children and old ladies when you rap the exhaust when they're walking down the sidewalk LOL.
Clean and Sync carbs (What jetting do you recommend for Devil exhaust? I have no idea if jetting has ever been done)
Chances are you won't need to clean the carbs. Unless gas has sat and dried up in them they should be fine. Can't help you with jet numbers, but there have been lots of threads with good advice. Post everything thats been done to your motor and someone should come along and give you a ballpark number.
Most of what you want to do is in there. Oh and post a pic of your bike or you will be banned... 
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