| Author | Message | ||
     Unibear12r |
Ever sense Lagua I've been vexed by a slow front tire leak that was extremely hard to find. I finally dunked it in water and found that the wheel was leaking from the area between one of the disk mounts and the rim! Talk about hard to find! Even now that I know where it leaks it's impossible to see until you put it in water. So tomorrow I ride the 100 miles to my dealer so they can decide if its a warranty issue and then it'll sit there until the new wheel comes in. For 7500 miles I think that the high quality "Amber" paint is what held in the air. Sense the bike is almost two years old I'm thinking upgrades and this seems a good time to have the race ecm installed/TPS reset. But I don't want the race pipe. I'll change the pipe a bit later after I get the bike home. So what issues do I face with the race ecm and a stock XB12 pipe? Must the exhaust valve motor be disconnected right away to keep the ecm happy? With power to the exhaust valve off is it open (short path) or closed (long path)? Will the bike be happier with the exhaust valve wired open to the short path? Thanks for any info. | ||
| Rr_eater |
UB I would wire the valve open while you have the Race ECM in it, as its spring loaded to the long path. It wont hurt anything really, it will be richer running though, so you may NOT want to lug it around while you do, and other obvious performance issues due to it being richer and more timing advance sooner in the rpm band. I did it to mine to be no other reason then louder, and it was fine. your results may vary, but it wont be detrimental by any means!! Cant wait till Octoberfast, you? Bruce | ||
| Jedwele |
The Race ecm will not control the servo that operates the exhaust valve. So like Bruce said you will probably need keep it open or might consider getting another pipe is there a reason you want to keep it? | ||
| Awprior |
Adding to the question, since I can't seem to access the search funtion right now and haven't had time since... I've got the race ECM, tried it out last weekend, rode about 5 miles on a bike that couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. Stalling, power on and off, etc. Not right all around. If I recall, the new ECM and the bike need a chance to adjust, how long are we talking for that to happen? I didn't have a ton of time to mess around, had places to go and put the stocker back on. Suppose I'm used to the carbs... Thanks, Prior | ||
| M1combat |
It would just be a few minutes once the bike is warm. The issue is that the ECM doesn't know where "zero" is wrt voltage coming from the TPS. You may be at 40% throttle and the ECM thinks you're at 83%... I got lucky... I slapped in a race ECM (that had been installed on another bike previously) and it's worked just fine ever since... | ||
| Unibear12r |
Alex did you get the TPS reset? As what M1 said, I've heard the bike can run fine without a reset, or horrible. Just depends on how well the ecm matches the tps. Jed, I will be changing out the muffler, just not right away. Besides I'll have to ride it 100 miles back home with the stock pipe. I don't have the ecm or the pipe I want yet. This came up sudden like. Thanks RR that was most of what I was looking for. Yes Ofast should be even better this year. I just have to make sure I've got good tires and stay away from the Goldschlagers (sp?) this time out! I'm just trying to turn this minor setback more to my advantage concerning the tps reset issue. If I install the ecm myself and the bike has reset issues 100 miles is a long way. On the other hand buying the gear it takes to reset the tps is a lot of money for something I'll almost never use or even be able to share. |
