Hot? Say boiling oil 10 times real fast. I have 13,000+ miles on my 07 and did a stage 1 on her with full synthetics and it helped a little. I am sitting on a combustion engine that is air cooled so after I build up enough callous on the inside of my thighs, I accept the fact she gets hot. Many a times I have detoured out of traffic to hit the wind and have enjoyed 99.9% of it. Although I have been late getting home, to work, appointments, more than once, it has been well worth it. I love this bike, more reliable than my old 81 low rider.

 

Have an 07 Fatboy and never really noticed it too bad til I was stuck in traffic as Sturgis. I thought my right thigh was about to ignite. I put a new seat on that is narrower in the front between the legs and I noticed it got worse. Old seat must have served as a little heat shield?

 

These things work great. I personally have the ones made by "No More Fried Thighs". I put them on in the spring and remove them late in the season. I feel very little heat now.

I have stage 1 with V&H Big Shots and run HD synthetic oil. It's still hot as hell without these heat deflectors. Oh ... I also put on an HD Oil Cooler. It helped some but not as much as I hoped.

 

I have an '08 with stage one, I use synthetic oil, and do not have any heat problems.

 

07 & 08 riders with heat issues....please read the thread that I started here...it is my conversation with the makers of XiED's over the last week....great results from a company that actually understands how your bikes ECM works....good reading

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/softa...formation.html

 

I have a 2007 FLSTC with a Screaming Eagle Stage 1, V&H BSS and a SERT. I run Mobil 1. I can get to about 230 as well if I'm stopped in traffic on a really hot day. Other than that, no problems.

 

go to www.nightrider.com to see how you can lower that max temp 20-40 degrees...for just $109

 

Yeah, my '07 ran a little hot like the rest of 'em, due to the lean emission limits mandated by EPA...went to Mobil 1 synthetic fluids, changed to older set of SE pipes, Ness Big Sucker, and a dyno'd PCIII...the bike runs cooler, much stronger, sounds like a Harley is supposed to, and I'm a happy camper...if you just want to cool down a stock bike, yeah, there are cheaper routes to take, but I've never been interested in running a quiet, stock bike...but that's just me...

 

My '07 ran hot, but pipes, ac, PC III and synthetic cooled it down significantly. Don't have actual numbers, but I can't feel it radiating anymore, which is nice.

 

Synthetic Oil definitely helps but I'm still stock and running at 230-235 usually