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[Morgan Buchanan]

I have an 1800 drive, gorgeous condition, not scratched up, etc...  Anyone want to trade?

[gsboriqua]

Is it chromed?

[Morgan Buchanan]

No, sorry.

[snake]

HICKersontl mentioned to me he was thinking about it... I'll holler at him and see for ya.

[Morgan Buchanan]

Cool.    The 1800 drive I have is sitting in my garage, ready to go.... Well I would clean it up a bit first.  LOL

[xcaliber]

I have an 1800 drive, gorgeous condition, not scratched up, etc...  Anyone want to trade?

I see other 1800 riders doing this , what is the reason for it , what is the advantages for the 1800 rider and the 1300 rider , disadvantages.
appreciate the edumacation.

[Morgan Buchanan]

The gearing is different.  Different gearing is better or worse depending on a person's driving style.  My impression of the 13 on my 18 is that 1st is "eh", 2-4 are a LOT more fun to run in, and 5th gear seems more like a 6th gear... lower RPMs at a given speed cruising the highway.

I think LESS 1300 guys run 18 drives, and I don't know the advantages, but those that do it seem happy.

[gsboriqua]

Supposed to have more torque at the low end for the 1300 guys.  When I sent mine out for a chrome exchange I was asked which one I wanted back, 1300 or 1800.  Shoulda went ahead and said 1800! 

[Crewsn]

they also say it is supposed to correct the "error" in the speedo. i did some comparisons with a tach and my gps, a before and after comparison, this is what i came up with. this is on my 03 1800 C with the 1800 drive my odometer was perfect to the gps, speedo was 5 mph fast, 70 indicated was actual 65 gps. with the 1300 drive my odometer is now 9.5 miles low for every 100 miles driven by gps. this means when the gps shows 100 miles the odometer is showing just a tad over 90 miles. i guess you could call this a good thing as far as resale goes. now the speedo is 5 mph slow, 70 indicated is actually 75 gps. as far as rpm's go I don't remember the exact rpm's but the difference at gps indicated 70 mph was about 300 rpms +/- 50 rpms. the 1800 drive is a 2.8 while the 1300 is a taller 3.1. this is just my set-up as it seems every bike is different, go figure.

[snake]

Morgan, I talked to HICKersontl, he's interested, but I didn't know what advantages other than off the line pickup, or even how much of that to expect. Do any of you 1300 guys out there have first hand info on how much difference this will make...like...is it really worth the trouble?
I've talked to quite a few 1800 guys with 1300 drives, but none the other way around.

[snake]

Crewsn, who's bike was that that they did the final drive swap on while we were camping at the Turkey Roost this spring?

[snake]

Hick, here's afew ref's

http://www.vtxoa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=245317&p=2338868&hilit=swap+1800+drive#p2338868

http://www.vtxoa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=231098&hilit=swap+1800+drive

http://www.vtxoa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=216872

[ViciousNoob]

Crewsn, who's bike was that that they did the final drive swap on while we were camping at the Turkey Roost this spring?

I think that was Trent's. Or was it Stever's? One of the two...


I had BigDog's 1800 gears in mine. Freakin LOVED the newfound torque. My numbers were a bit more dramatic on the speedo than Jay's, tho. My speedo showed 75 and I was going 63. Bigdog was kind enough to swap me back when the gas prices went Ape- Cranberries (or whatever this dang board changes curse words to).

If MPG is not an issue and you have a 1300 and want some free low end torque, DO IT!!

[Morgan Buchanan]

interesting stuff in those threads... maybe I'll keep a hold of my drive and just polish it and have it ready if I want to swap back....  I dunno.    I'm digging the 1300 drive a lot, and it's chromed....

[HICKersontl]

how much trouble is it to swap the drive just so i know how long my bike will be out of commission i ride it everyday im not really worried about mpg because my truck gets about 17 mpg so i know the bike is alot better lol