Bad for the motor. Not enough oil circulating.

 

CR483 cam. sounds great

 

You need to get old like me, and enjoy an M-8 for what it is.

I run stock mufflers these days because I travel on it.

Do you want to show? or go?

An M-8 will never sound like a knuckle, flatty, shovel, evo, or twincam.

Quit trying to make it sound like that.

I’ve had three M-8’s in the past four years. I run a stock 114, and wouldn’t change a thing.

 

@MTBIG G Yeah, I should have qualified my post by saying that it doesn't have that sound that my Evo had, rather than doesn't sound like a Harley. But, I think most readers get what I meant..

 

I'm 70 in Feb, do I qualify?
And I want both - show AND go.
I've spent enough money buying the bike - I won't be spending a lot more on it.
I just was a little disappointed with the sound - but, if it will never sound like the early Harleys then I'll have to get used to it.

 

There’s an old Latin phrase.
Esse quam videri
"To be rather than to seem"

Let an M-8 be an M-8.

And just ride it.

 

Yeah - it's still a Harley and a beautiful bike.

 

People talk about the great sound of an Evo. I owned two. A new FXRS I bought new in 1985, and a 1995 Road king I chased for a year, two years ago.

I ran drag pipes on that 1985, and you know what I didn’t like about it?
It didn’t sound like a shovel.
Maybe with a cam it would have sounded better, but it ran too good to screw with.
But the ride of that new rubber glide five speed evo was light years ahead of a stock 4 speed shovel.

Trade offs.

 

That sounds awesome. I'd be happy with that! I've actually saved your post for the future when I have some spare cash to do the same.

 

I always loved the sound of a 60's to 70 big block car with a cam. As much as I love that sound my Dodge Hellcat don't sound like that but sounds fantastic IMO and the Mustang high RPM Flat-Plane crank 2020 Gt-350 V8 engine just sounds nasty good but the engine sound has evolved not better, not worse but evolved to some peoples liking and perhaps not to all.
As a Sound tech I feel the same way about Eddie Van Halen guitar tone from the mid to late 70's to sadly when he passed, his tone changed with the times...
Be it a Harley, or Van Halen or a V8, it all sounds Fantastic IMO... Now don't get me started about the sound of a V6...