TuneECU AND PCIII?

[Gkiller]

I am currently on a mini-vacation with the family, and yesterday I ran into a guy at our hotel who was on an 07 R3 Classic. We began discussing mods and such, and I mentioned that I was considering either TuneEcu or a PCIII (leaning heavily toward the TuneECU)...and he stated he was running BOTH on his bike. He said he has a map loaded into his ECU for his exhaust and intake setup (I think he had Jardines, CAT delete and maybe an underseat K/N), and since he had a PCIII already, he took the bike to a Dyno and they refined the A/F and dialed the bike in "perfectly" as he put it. Does that make sense? Would there be any benefit to having both on the bike? His logic was that the ECU map can adequately adjust for the exhaust and mods, but since the PCIII piggy-backs off the ECU, his DynoJet tuner was able to refine it further...something that could only be accomplished on the Dyno.

 

[Pig9r]

I have done the same thing. But I took the PCIII tune and imported it into the TuneEcu map and removed the PCIII. A PCIII is about the only way to reasonably do a dyno tune unless you find someone that can tune with Tuneboy or TuneEcu like PowerTripp.

 

[Gkiller]

Do you know if the TuneEcu tunes open the secondaries to 100% and keeps them open, or is that something that can be edited into the Tune when loaded/imported into the ECU?

 

[Pig9r]

You have to modify the tunes.

 

[dougl]

Now that you don't have to buy Tuneboy for $500, TuneECU and, a PCIII and a custom map is the way to go. You only have to spend $20 on a cable for TuneECU. TuneECU will let you put a tune in the ECU that opens the secondaries 100%, fixes the speedometer, raises the speed and rev limits, and change the ignition timing if you want. Then if you change the intake or exhaust, you just get the PCIII remapped.

 

[bagman]

Now that you don't have to buy Tuneboy for $500, TuneECU and, a PCIII and a custom map is the way to go. You only have to spend $20 on a cable for TuneECU. TuneECU will let you put a tune in the ECU that opens the secondaries 100%, fixes the speedometer, raises the speed and rev limits, and change the ignition timing if you want. Then if you change the intake or exhaust, you just get the PCIII remapped.

once you have the pc3 mapped you can import that into tuneecu too.

 

[Gkiller]

Thanks for all of the feedback. Considering that I have a PCIII (not installed) and am awaiting the cable to load TuneEcu...I may go this route as well. I had planned on installing map 20050 into the ECU; now I will also plan to take the bike to a
Dyno tuner and have them dial in the PCIII as well. But what would be the benefit of importing the PCIII tune into the ECU as opposed to just leaving the PCIII installed so that further adjustments (if ever necessary) could be made "on the fly"?

Last thing...how would I edit the 20050 program to open the secondaries 100% instead of going through the steps of removing the secondaries? As usual guys...thanks for the help and feedback.

 

[dougl]

There would be no benefit. Modify the secondaries table so all the numbers are 100. 20050 was the original base tune for the standard exhaust. Why not use the latest available for the stock classic?