American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 174 January 2014 | Page 20

Wood Performance Knight Prowler cams are
offered for Twin Cam, Evolution, and Shovelhead
applications

stock or modified heads. Features on the
King include boring and blue-printing, ‘timed’
idle transfer slots, a modified ‘MV’ slide, and
O-rings from James Gaskets.
For riders looking for more power, the Super
King 505 is based on a 55mm CV carb, which
is rebuilt with a high capacity float bowl kit,
titanium fuel needle, .092 through .100in
main jets and a KF325 340cfm air filter.
he KF325 air filter is the largest
performance filter offered by Wood
Performance, in a range that starts with the
KF250, which flows 22cfm compared to a
stock Screamin’ Eagle filter’s 135cfm.
In order to then get the maximum benefit
from the increased fuelling offered by the
King carbs and high flow air filters, Bob
realized he would have to take a look at the
stock Harley cams too. “I realized the
camshafts didn’t have the right timing,” says
Bob. “They need to be different to a car’s
camshaft, and so I developed my first bike
camshaft, the W6, and from there it just
took off.
“My thoughts on camshaft technology at
that time were not like everybody else’s. I
started with short duration, very short, for

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more torque, and combined that with high
lift and very tight lobe separation. This
shorted the duration, and the higher the lift
the more goes in to fill the cylinder. Most
people use wide, long duration camshafts,
but with my way, I give the engine the fuel
when it needs it without taking away the
bottom end.”
he way in which Bob set about developing
the timin