I have considered them ... Aaron Wilson starts his 90 inch S&S engine with a heavy duty starter although he has had a few crap out on him ... I will try to go without compression release initially and see how it goes ... on the fueler I always used rollers but it was a pain in the a-s.
Joe
Joe,
FWIW, I have been using the stock starter on my Buell from the very get go. I believe the compression is somewhere of the neighborhood of 13.5-1 and I have never had any trouble at all starting the bike, not once. I have been using a Big Boar (BB)battery for the bike since day one as well, these batteries are bullet proof! I had a long and low rigid chopper a few years back that had a 113" motor in it with compression releases and I think that bike ate every battery I ever put in it until I went with the BB. I have left the iginition on and drained it completely, after recharging it was good as new, it has been subjected to about 30 + dyno passes, 8-10 passes at El Mirage and 5 passes at Bonneville, I have accidently drilled a hole into it and it just keeps on ticking! This is the second BB battery I have owned and I will never buy another brand for a rigid Harley. Rchop can back me on all the problems I had with batteries and how the BB solved them.
Scott