For those who have remapped their ECU ..

Trying to collect some data points:

1. How long has it been remapped ?
2. Any issues ?
3. What is your anecdotal impression on the pre vs post power gains ?
4. Was it worth it ?

Ezayakyala said:

Trying to collect some data points:

1. How long has it been remapped ?
2. Any issues ?
3. What is your anecdotal impression on the pre vs post power gains ?
4. Was it worth it ?

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if you are that worried then dont do it

but here are your answers

1. How long has it been remapped ?
1+years
2. Any issues ?
no
3. What is your anecdotal impression on the pre vs post power gains ?
look it up in this forum or youtube, lots of pre and post gains proofs.

4. Was it worth it ?
define "worth" , whats worthless to me maybe worth a lot to you

1. How long has it been remapped ?
8 months
2. Any issues ?
none
3. What is your anecdotal impression on the pre vs post power gains ?
essentially the same as the new storm - immediate, smooth and predictable.
4. Was it worth it ?
for sure! it transformed this bike.

Ezayakyala said:

Trying to collect some data points:

1. How long has it been remapped ?

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~ two years

Ezayakyala said:

2. Any issues ?

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None

Ezayakyala said:

3. What is your anecdotal impression on the pre vs post power gains ?

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Immediately evident- definitely not a placebo effect. Put your bike in rain mode, then switch to sport. The difference is similar between going from stock Sport to Penner Sport

Ezayakyala said:

4. Was it worth it ?

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It was free

I don't remember reading of any complaints, just lots of praise for @Penner for sharing this with us.......

Journeyman said:

~ two years

None

Immediately evident- definitely not a placebo effect. Put your bike in rain mode, then switch to sport. The difference is similar between going from stock Sport to Penner Sport

It was free

I don't remember reading of any complaints, just lots of praise for @Penner for sharing this with us.......

Free unrestricted maps for Rocket R GT and TFC now online

I have now added the TFC and R model Just scroll to the bottom of the page https://tuneecu.net/Custom_Tune_list.html The European models will come soon Cheers

www.r3owners.net

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All true! And having the very reasonably priced TuneECU and a dongle gives an owner a much greater ability to adjust and troubleshoot the bike. Well worth it!

Ezayakyala said:

Trying to collect some data points:

1. How long has it been remapped ?
2. Any issues ?
3. What is your anecdotal impression on the pre vs post power gains ?
4. Was it worth it ?

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1/2 months
2/No
3/I got back the horses that Triumph had hidden on my version, and even a little more.... (my bike lifts up to 3rd gear...)
4/largely because, in addition, I had a mapping still optimized vs Penner's

I've been remapping almost every bike (and car) I've owned for about the last fifteen years. Never had any issues with any of them. Invariably it was to improve ridability by removing intrusive emissions regs programming, and to correct fueling after making induction mods or changing exhaust systems to ditch the weight and heat of cats. With cars it was usually to delete troublesome systems like adblue injectors and diesel DPFs. If you're doing that you might as well trim the fueling at the same time to optimise drivibility and fuel efficiency.
Remapping doesn't "add" power. It corrects fueling and ignition to allow optimum engine running. You can achieve perfect fueling but you can't make it better than perfect, and you can't dial in more power than the engine was designed to produce. That requires hard engineering. But you can release power that was being stifled by the factory map and allow the engine to run as it should, and to place the power and torque where you want it for everyday riding and not where it needs to be to please politicians.
When I look at before and after dyno graphs, the headline power and torque figures aren't that important. What matters is where they occur in the rev range, where they occur relative to each other, and the shape of the power and torque curves across the rev range on the way to the peak figure.
Filling in slumps and holes in power and torque curves (particularly torque) and improving throttle response can make a bike feel radically more eager and pleasing to ride without significantly increasing headline numbers. If it's done correctly it is empahitically worthwhile.

Saying that, the only bike I've owned for any length of time without remapping has been my KTM 1190. That's because it ran perfectly and went like stink straight out of the crate with an enormous dollop of torque at around 5000 rpm which is exactly where you want it. The exhaust system has a relatively small cat and isn't offensive to the eye or ear so I've not been tempted to change it. I will one day fit either a Doberman or Vandemon titanium decat system, again to shed heat and weight, and replace the bulky, fiddly and sometimes leaky stock airbox with a DNA pancake airbox. Mainly for ease of maintenance. I haven't done it as yet becuase the bike runs so well as it is, so it's not been priority. I've also held off because I tour on that bike and open airboxes can be very noisy (I did it to a 990 SMT which made it bark like a rabid dog).That's good fun on short blasts but can become very wearying on long rides. However I did fit one to a 1290 Superduke which has a very similar engine and induction lay-out to the 1190 and had it remapped, mainly to improve a poor throttle response; and the increased induction bark it produced on that bike was modest and more pleasing than annoying. So at some stage I will do the same with the 1190.