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Both. This bike has close to 130000 miles. Ridden hard. Put away wet. Seriously now. Ridden coast to coast, all times of the year, salted roads and unfortunately salt water a few times. Outer Banks. Rte 12. One road in, on road out....sometimes.

Yup. I always use my in.lb. wrench for lower torques like this. Tho I've not tested my big ft.lb. clickers, I'd be leery of them at such low settings.

BTW, the fact that diesels run super lean is unknown by MANY people who know about engines. I put my van on a smog test machine just for fun (wanted to see how dirty my waste oil fuel was compared to real diesel fuel) and right away the tech said "this thing is running super lean, you need to fix that". The oxygen percentage of the exhaust indicated a guesstimated 50:1 air/fuel ratio. This guy has been an engine tinkerer for decades and can't wrap his mind around the fact that diesels don't rely on air/fuel ratios.

The only time I used a two step was in a car, and it was used for burnout and launch. Max RPM was already set by the ECU as it is in a Bird's ECU, tho his may be set up differently. I don't see the need for a burnout limiter, but that's how the guy had the car set up so I followed instructions and drove it. I guess it just takes some of the thinking out of the whole thing making it easier to be consistent. He was bracket racing so consistency is key. Hold the line lock & burnout limiter button, pin the throttle for three seconds then roll out of it. Hold the line lock and launch limiter button then release both buttons and the clutch at go time. That experience is one of those few that sticks with me. Side stepping the clutch at 5,000 RPM on sticky tires and doing a wheelie in a full body 95 Cobra R was spectacular. It was like being rear ended, but fun.

Jon, I'm not really in need of anything but the single stage lock up intrigues me, but have no idea if it will be helpful for my set up, never used one before. Right now the bastard race bike won't even start. I'll take the mirror block offs. My shifter is elec over air (Pingel, not crazy about it) but I bought a co2 regulator to go on the standard size bottle.You running a small bottle under the seat? I was thinking just using a paint ball bottle. Pm with prices. Also, if your on Facebook, there is the Modified Blackbirds page, should be able to move the stuff there.