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First time posting on here, now that I can being that I finally own a big 6! Ive been upsessed with crazy engineering from back in the day, remember the first time i saw a cbx in person, just in a parking lot at the store, wow i fell in love with giant wide 6 cylinders. Few months back I was ready to move on from my harley road glide with an 88, really loved the bike, but it was just a pig, not much power and on the freeway doing 80 it sounded like it was going to blow revving so high. My dream has always been to have a turbo bagger to go along with my twin turbo show car that im going to start tuning next weekend!!!! (this has been a non running project for 5 years) So naturally already looking for my next build. The hard part was deciding what I wanted to build this turbo bagger on, as I didn't really want to pay the premium for another harley, and turbo v twin doesnt sing to me, then somewhere I made the connection of using a voyager with the base, and the more i thought about it and looked into, I love the idea of an inline 6 turbo bagger, and it already has fuel injection! more critcally throttle bodies that take fuel injectors, which will make building a turbo so much easier. Once I was sold on the idea began the long hunt to find one, and that was hard, there are none out here in utah or really on the west coast. Well one finally popped up within driving distance and it was a screaming deal on top of it! Was a little less then 500 miles from me, so almost a 1000 mile round trip, $750 for one that was in somewhat decent shape, the catch was he had a gl1100 also for $750 and he would only sell them as a pair, weird, but I wasnt going to miss this chance.

Finally made it home, threw a new battery in with some new gas and fuel injector cleaner and she fired right up, changed the oil, sett the tires and its been a blast to ride so far. The front fairing was extremely loose and I found the mounting bolts barely on, actually not sure how they didnt rattle off, got it tightened up, took off the lower side panels as one did have a good scuff on it. Windshield was broken from him storing a DINING ROOM TABLE SET on top of the bike in his garage! like when i got there I spent a good hour just cleaning crap out of his garage to even get to the bike. So I had to trim the windshield way down to clear the broken pieces. He also filled the coolant overflow with oil, i guess he thought thats where oil went? Spent forever flushing that out, the line leading to the radiator looked to be nice and clean and just coolant. He also gutted the stock mufflers, in a very weird way, i should get a picture.

The bike seems to be running pretty good, its not nearly as torquey or quick as I thought it would be, is there any way to tune these dfi systems with different exhaust? How he gutted them it sounds decent, I love hearing it rev, but around 3k rpm the drone is the worst ive heard on a bike
Also do these bikes tend to run hot? Were in a heat bubble in the west right now, its between 90-100F every day, coolant is nice and clean in the radiator and overflow, but the bike tends to always run a little over normal, like if normal is the bars coming to the middle, it usually runs 1 bar past the middle, slow stuff in parking lots and such will give me 2 bars and ive seen 3 bars, where its almost maxed out the coolant gauge, but breifly. The fan is working, after i turn the bike off it continues to cycle on and off.

The top of the motor is pretty ticky also, doesn't sound bad though, is that also normal? Or should i tear down and inspect the valves? also is the cam chain tensioner on these reliable, Ive had to install manual ones on alot of 80's bikes.

For right now Im going to ride the ugly duckling how she is and love her, I wanna do something different with the exhaust, but I just want to enjoy the bike. Im going to start slowly ordering parts to change the look, its probably going to get a harley roadglide front end with harley stretched bags. The turbo project will be something for this coming winter, after my car is all tuned and done.

Also are there any options for handle bars? Wasnt expecting to see these goofy things with how they mount. Also does anyone have this side cover? I dont like how it was bashed in and filled in with whatever, id also love to find a replacement crash bar for the same side. ebay has none and not sure where else to look for those parts.
So excited to finally have one of these!