2012 FLHX.Fuel Moto PowerVision.5000 miles. I'm ready for some cams. SE 255's or 204's haven't quite made up my mind. Installing them myself would not be a problem. But I still have 18 months left on my warranty and the service guy quoted me $320 labor for the install and no warranty issues at my dealership. Is the $320 labor worth it to keep my motor covered without any problems for another year and a half ?

 

If you can do the job competently, do it, I believe the failure would have to be due to the work you did to void the warranty. But $320 ain't a whole lot of money in my mind.

 

Does the charge include install plus tuning the PV to match the cam? If so doesn't sound a lot of money to me, about 4 hours labour?

 

For $320 I would let them do it.

 

Have you considered the 254se cam. Quicker Cam and having had both the 255 in a 07 CVO Road King and 254 in my current 11 FLHX i prefer the 254. My dyno chart can be found in the garage. I love the quick response of running 0-90 right now

 

I would go with Woods 555 cams.

 

No. The $320 doesn't include the tune, I would get a base tune from Jamie @ Fuel Moto and tweek it myself from there. Was going to stick with a SE cam if I have them do the work. BTW... thanks for giving me another cam to think about after I'd narrowed it down to 2 . I'm 50-50 2 up and this bike rarely, if ever, sees the north side of 4500 RPM.

 

And I know this is ridiculous, but damn, I love the idle of a 103 with a SE 204.

 

Let the D/S do it for that price.

 

You'll want to think about compression releases with the SE cams. My brother has a 103 kit (HD jugs and 103 cast pistons) with a SE204 and it cranks OK when cold, but when hot it cranks slow, real slow. (The bike does run nice)

You might look at the TW-222 as an alternative to the SE255 or SE204. Better torque curves than the SE cams and better CCP for starting.

I do agree with you though, the SE204 has a great sounding idle!

Good luck