TxRIIIRider
Living Legend
First of all, TuneECU is awesome. If you're the least bit computer and mechanically inclined, you should have TuneECU.
My bike has been surging at cruise speeds for a while, and I was finally tired of it. My dealer is only an hour away, but I have had little luck with them troubleshooting anything. Everyone says TPS.. TPS.. but thinking back to carb days, throttle bodies being out of synch can cause this too.
So I wiped and loaded an old laptop I have with Windows XP, and followed the intructions to load TuneECU and associated components. Once hooked to my bike, TuneECU picked up the ECU right away.
PAIN 1 - You have to remove all of the intake plumbing to get to the throttle body synch screws!!! ( Triple K&Ns in the near future! ) Which isn't bad.. but then you have to put it all back on!! Anyway, TuneECU is awesome and I was able to get the throttle bodies synched spot on.
Since I was there, I figured I would try and load a new map and see if I could get rid of my PC-III. I researched a few and ended up choosing Power-Tripp R3 TORs with underseat K&N off of the TuneECU custom maps site. I am running Jardines, but the only Jardine tunes I've been able to find were for 3 K&N filters, which is a big difference in air. I looked the settings over and was happy, so I loaded this tune. Then took the bike for a spin.. ( still mostly unassembled.. lol... luckily I didn't suck a bird or something into the intake!..) The bike ran much better.. with more popping on decel than I would like, but I figured once I got the intake plumbing back on that would calm down a bit..
I got back and decided the bike was running good enough to put back together, so I got her all bolted up ( one of the dang clamps on the plumbing took me 45 freakin' minutes to tighten! One tiny turn at a time with an allen wrench! ) Then took the bike for another longer run.. with varying speeds up to about 90... and the bike is running great!.. I think this tune loses a some on the low end that I had before, so I once I spring for 3 K&N's I'll probably look for a better tune, but right now it's running better than it has in quite a while.. Just in time for a road trip to Shreveport, LA in a couple of weeks..
My bike has been surging at cruise speeds for a while, and I was finally tired of it. My dealer is only an hour away, but I have had little luck with them troubleshooting anything. Everyone says TPS.. TPS.. but thinking back to carb days, throttle bodies being out of synch can cause this too.
So I wiped and loaded an old laptop I have with Windows XP, and followed the intructions to load TuneECU and associated components. Once hooked to my bike, TuneECU picked up the ECU right away.
PAIN 1 - You have to remove all of the intake plumbing to get to the throttle body synch screws!!! ( Triple K&Ns in the near future! ) Which isn't bad.. but then you have to put it all back on!! Anyway, TuneECU is awesome and I was able to get the throttle bodies synched spot on.
Since I was there, I figured I would try and load a new map and see if I could get rid of my PC-III. I researched a few and ended up choosing Power-Tripp R3 TORs with underseat K&N off of the TuneECU custom maps site. I am running Jardines, but the only Jardine tunes I've been able to find were for 3 K&N filters, which is a big difference in air. I looked the settings over and was happy, so I loaded this tune. Then took the bike for a spin.. ( still mostly unassembled.. lol... luckily I didn't suck a bird or something into the intake!..) The bike ran much better.. with more popping on decel than I would like, but I figured once I got the intake plumbing back on that would calm down a bit..
I got back and decided the bike was running good enough to put back together, so I got her all bolted up ( one of the dang clamps on the plumbing took me 45 freakin' minutes to tighten! One tiny turn at a time with an allen wrench! ) Then took the bike for another longer run.. with varying speeds up to about 90... and the bike is running great!.. I think this tune loses a some on the low end that I had before, so I once I spring for 3 K&N's I'll probably look for a better tune, but right now it's running better than it has in quite a while.. Just in time for a road trip to Shreveport, LA in a couple of weeks..
