Vulcan 1700 Engine & Tranny job

theMucker · 02-02-2012, 06:50 PM

Assuming it might be of some use to the Vulcan 1700 riders here, I wanted to put in a link to the process I went through installing the 2011 transmission into my 2010 Voyager. I also cut the heads .025" to raise compression to the factory specification of 9.5:1 and, while I was at it, I ported the heads. The result worked out great. The tranny is quieter and it now has the OOMPH! that a 1700cc V-twin motorcycle should. Rather than cut and paste it all, here's the link:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/kawvulcan/messages
Thread 105848.31 and on.

cactusjack · 02-02-2012, 08:23 PM

Somebody should ask BD about his tranny. The one he picked up on Sunset Blvd.

AlabamaNomadRider · 02-02-2012, 08:27 PM

Thanks for the link.

CJ, Brad didn't realize until it was too late that he had picked one up.

**ringadingh** · 02-02-2012, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by cactusjack

Somebody should ask BD about his tranny. The one he picked up on Sunset Blvd.

I'll bet its not as quite as the one Mucker replaced, Bd's was a screamer.

twowheeladdict · 02-02-2012, 10:42 PM

Have no idea how to navigate that forum. Why doesn't the link go directly to the post in question?

So, you had to cut the heads in order to bring the compression up to the advertized compression?

ponch · 02-02-2012, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by twowheeladdict

Have no idea how to navigate that forum. Why doesn't the link go directly to the post in question?

So, you had to cut the heads in order to bring the compression up to the advertized compression?

This is what he meant: http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/...&msg=105848.31

Yes he did. It looks like quite a job.

ponch · 02-02-2012, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ringadingh

I'll bet its not as quite as the one Mucker replaced, Bd's was a screamer.

Yeah, but we actually have pictures and details here. No shamwow.

Monkeyman · 02-03-2012, 12:32 AM

What's different between the '10 and '11 transmissions?

**ringadingh** · 02-03-2012, 12:45 AM

A year.

Monkeyman · 02-03-2012, 01:57 AM

Oh. I see. Humor early in the morning, EH?

REDWIND · 02-03-2012, 06:03 AM

welcome to the fourm.

**jestephens** · 02-03-2012, 09:00 AM

ponch · 02-03-2012, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ringadingh

A year.

Kawasaki revised the gears and piston rings between 2010 and 2011. The newer gears aren't as noisy. If you've ever ridden a Voyager, it's shifting is a lot different from the 1500/1600.

Monkeyman · 02-03-2012, 09:13 AM

Never rode a current Voyager. Is there anything bad about the newer transmission or is the older newer (?) tranny just noisier?

cactusjack · 02-03-2012, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by ponch

Yeah, but we actually pictures and details here. No shamwow.

Shamwow? ShamPOW!

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