2010 Honda Fury Project Bike
The monochromatic scheme of our black Honda Fury project bike simply won't do, Maybe we can make it more attention-getting...
Honda looked to increase its cruiser street cred last year with the release of the 2010 Honda Fury. Though it used the familiar 1312cc liquid-cooled mill developed in the VTX1300, the Fury’s styling was a big contrast to the Japanese manufacturer’s prior offerings. Sporting a radical neck height and a heavy 38-degree rake with a big 21-inch wheel up front, the Fury is long and low, featuring a 71.2-inch wheelbase and a 26.7-inch seat height. It has a beautiful sculpted tank that stretches over the long, arched backbone. Honda went 200mm wide on the rear of the shaft-driven motorcycle to maintain the bike’s front-to-rear balance, and priced it far below any other factory-custom choppers to make it even more marketable.
To remedy the problem, the 2010 Honda Fury project bike is headed south for some engine modifications courtesy of our buddy Jim Guiffra of AFT Customs. Jim specializes in building championship-caliber metric motorcycles and won the prestigious title of Metric World Champion at the 2008 AMD World Championships. We talked to Jim about our project at Las Vegas BikeFest where he suggested new pistons, cams, and a reworked air intake as a solution to our power problems. We couldn’t believe it when someone with his skills agreed to help us squeeze more power out of the single overhead cam engine. We’ve got our base dyno numbers above to measure the modifications against, in addition to our seat-of-the-pants impressions.
And though exhaust sound is arbitrary, the note coming out of the stock pipes is a bit tame. Sure, the exhausts meet current EPA standards, but a chopper traditionally has a more resounding exhaust note than the stock Fury. So our friend Andre La Plante at Cobra Engineering has sent over a set of its Speedster Swept Exhausts to remedy the situation. We’ll see if the new setup shaves off any weight or gives us any more power than the stock pipes. You can bet we’ll be doing some before and after sound files, too, to share the new auditory experience.
