5000 miles into my new 2010 StreetGlide with the EPA-compliant TwinCam and Exhaust.......these beasts are HOT! Is the MoCo's strategy to have these engines burn up JUST AFTER WARRANTY runs out???

 

We'll see... 16K and counting.

 

It doesn't make good business sense to have an engine blow up after 2 years. So I don't think that is their strategy. But time will tell

 

Are the 2010s different from the 2009s? I really don't keep up with stuff like that but maybe I should.

 

Good question. I am thinking about trading in my 09 Superglide for a 2010 Streetbob.

 

How can you ask if a 2010 motor is going to last...in 2010? That's just laughable really.

Just ride the darn bike and stop worrying about it.

Don't you think your car is just as lean due to epa regs? Does it last more than 20k miles? There certainly is no shortage of emissions control on cars these days.

 

All I know is my '09 StreetGlide runs substantially cooler than my brothers '10 Road King. I don't blame anyone for being concerned if a '10 is going to last even if it is brand new.

We all know heat is the #1 enemy for engines and seeing how hot the new bikes run I'd be a little concerned if I owned one. I'd rather take precautions now than find out the hard way a year after the warranty runs out.

Maybe a Stage 1 will really help with the heat issue on the '10's. My brother is going to put a Stage 1 in his bike soon so we'll find out.

 

We are a desert here also, so I know what you mean; our EPA-gear I imagine is rather similar.

Of course you realise that the engine, having been designed for it, is much more comfortable with that temperature than we are and can handle that temperature indefinitely, in fact operates more efficiently at the higher temperature. In heavy, crawling traffic the bike lets us know we're not treating it well; we have to keep it moving; there is no other way to cool it--no coolant, pump, heat exchanger or fan--only natural convection.

On the hottest days I might wish for insulated skivvies.

 

Do yourself and your motor a favor hoethree and pull that damned "cat in the head pipe" and put on something equivalent w/out the cat.
If nothing else, cut your pipe in half, pull out the cat and weld it back together.
Do you have a PC-V on it yet?

 

don't know if it is still true, but a catalytic convertor used to run very hot itself. they may have changed over the recent years.