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Hi all,
I am a proud new Victory owner. I recently purchased a 2010 Kingpin. I am loving the bike so far. Just a couple of days ago I had a stage one kit installed. I have read quite a few very positive comments about the stage one kit and the performance gains it brings.Afterthe installation,I can hardly wait to try it out. My first impression was that Iwas not very impressed.The bike definitely sounds a lot better and it does feel less restrictedgoing down the open road at highway speeds but my issue is when I let go of the throttle. At times, especially when in first or second gear, when I let off the gas it is almost like reaching down and turning the key off -- the bike goes dead. This can be a fairly big problem when accelerating out of a corner or curve. Getting back on the throttle suddenly wakes the bike back up and it can get very jumpy in the process -- somewhat dangerous coming out of a curve. It also backfires, and at least once, it has missed on the top of the RPM range whileunder hard acceleration. The latter was somewhat embarrassing because I was riding with a couple buddies who ride Harleys and I wanted to show them what the"New American Motorcycle" could do. I amnot sure they heard the misfire due to the fact that I was eating their dust.
With all that being said I believe that I may have found the problem and I am looking for confirmation. I took the bike to the dealership and a veteran Victory rider happened to be there. He was telling methat after 2007 Victory changed the main computing chip from one that can be "tweeted" withlap top to one that Victory specifies what code should be entered after a given modification such as a stage one kit. This type of CPU cannot be mapped so it is dependent on all its sensors. After learning that, I looked down and noticed that the new side bow pipes did not have the O2 sensors installed! I brought this to the mechanics attention and he agreed this could be an issue. The new O2 sensors are now on order and I will have to wait about two weeks to get them installed. Do any of you agree that the new O2 sensor installation will solve the problem?
I am a proud new Victory owner. I recently purchased a 2010 Kingpin. I am loving the bike so far. Just a couple of days ago I had a stage one kit installed. I have read quite a few very positive comments about the stage one kit and the performance gains it brings.Afterthe installation,I can hardly wait to try it out. My first impression was that Iwas not very impressed.The bike definitely sounds a lot better and it does feel less restrictedgoing down the open road at highway speeds but my issue is when I let go of the throttle. At times, especially when in first or second gear, when I let off the gas it is almost like reaching down and turning the key off -- the bike goes dead. This can be a fairly big problem when accelerating out of a corner or curve. Getting back on the throttle suddenly wakes the bike back up and it can get very jumpy in the process -- somewhat dangerous coming out of a curve. It also backfires, and at least once, it has missed on the top of the RPM range whileunder hard acceleration. The latter was somewhat embarrassing because I was riding with a couple buddies who ride Harleys and I wanted to show them what the"New American Motorcycle" could do. I amnot sure they heard the misfire due to the fact that I was eating their dust.
With all that being said I believe that I may have found the problem and I am looking for confirmation. I took the bike to the dealership and a veteran Victory rider happened to be there. He was telling methat after 2007 Victory changed the main computing chip from one that can be "tweeted" withlap top to one that Victory specifies what code should be entered after a given modification such as a stage one kit. This type of CPU cannot be mapped so it is dependent on all its sensors. After learning that, I looked down and noticed that the new side bow pipes did not have the O2 sensors installed! I brought this to the mechanics attention and he agreed this could be an issue. The new O2 sensors are now on order and I will have to wait about two weeks to get them installed. Do any of you agree that the new O2 sensor installation will solve the problem?