Vance & Hines Monster Ovals

7. Next, the head pipes with heat shields were put in place with the mounting flanges snugged up but not tightened. Then, the lower rear pipe was bolted to the transmission bracket as the cross under pipe was bolted to the oil bag bracket.

8. Next the mufflers were installed, to do this Ed used the new V&H hanger brackets. These brackets are longer by 1-inch and will give more support .

9. Here the hangers are lined up with the Monster Oval mufflers, once they are in place all the bolts for this exhaust system were tightened up.

10. Next, Ed installed the Drak air cleaner kit. After removing the stock setup he bolted the aluminum venturi to the V&H backing plate, then he installed the filter mounting bracket. Once together the backing plate was bolted to the throttle body.

11. The Drak kit comes with a reusable filter element that is held in place with button head screws. Then the chrome filter cover was installed. The cool thing is that the bolts are on the back side of the cover to keep the front looking clean.

12. Then the next thing Ed did was get to the ECU and route the FuelPak and harness up to the ECU. Then he removed the plug from the ECU unit, and connected the FuelPak onto the ECU harness. The Fuelpak will fit under the side cover and stay in place with a zip-tie.

13. The V&H FuelPak was next, Ed found the fuel values for this particular setup in the install booklet, then entered the values into the FuelPak.

14. Then everything was put back on the bike and the pipes were wiped down. With the bike back up on the dyno, the first run with the starting point fuel values gave us some good numbers 76.7-hp and 88.1-lb ft of torque for a gain of 9.3 hp and 9.8 lb-ft torque. This is out of the box, Ed said that with a little more time it could get better. As for the sound, it's very clean and deep but not excessively loud or obnoxious.

15. Final shot of the bike with the V&H pipes, FuelPak and Drak air clean kit.