1200gs Maps

[jtw000]

I'm having a bit of trouble with the fuelling on my 1200. Sometimes the fuel economy is great, other days it's terrible and I think it needs the attention of a new map while it's for a service. Are other maps available without a power commander, I've been advised not to use one of those.

 

[contact23]

whats a map and power commnder?

 

[Wapping]

104 views (to date) and one reply, which was itself a question.

Oh well, here goes:

jtw000, have we not been here already a few brief months ago? Several pages worth, culminating in you not being particularly happy.

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205098

Tell us one thing, please, before everyone starts going down the fuel mapping / Power Commander routes:

Have you stopped pouring Redex into it and had it professionally serviced, so at least all the basics are known to be in good shape?


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To answer Contact 23's enquiry:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-consumption/fuel-mapping-computer.htm Easy to follow pages and a neat (to coin a suitable American idiom) film, too.

http://www.powercommander.com/powercommander/default.aspx

 

[Wapping]

On closer inspection, fuelling seems to have been an ongoing problem with your 04 1200GS since day one, jtw000.

This thread http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=197206 with the swapping of spark plugs, where those that you ordered from ebay and fitted, only to take them out as they were wrong (whatever 'wrong' means) is a taster.

Mix in assorted, "I have done it all myself" and 'fuel economy' type ramblings / postings and it's becoming difficult to see what state your bike may be in.

 

[Kremmen]

Redex!!!! there's a product from the past.... squirting it into the carb, clouds of blue smoke & that sickly sweet smell.

 

[oldrascal]

Redex!!!! there's a product from the past.... squirting it into the carb, clouds of blue smoke & that sickly sweet smell.

And who amongst us remembers that Daddy of all motorsport smells -Castrol R?

 

[London Mole]

Castrol R... Hmmm...

There's an old classic yellow Dirt-track Triumph at the Ace Cafe...

Was lucky enough to ride behind it once...

Smelt like a mix of warm and moist Italian pizza herbs and marzipan...

Hmmmm...

Sweeeeeeeeeet!!!

 

[GSmonkey]

I wouldn't worry your arse Wapping................he's traded it in for a girls bike

104 views (to date) and one reply, which was itself a question.

Oh well, here goes:

jtw000, have we not been here already a few brief months ago? Several pages worth, culminating in you not being particularly happy.

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205098

Tell us one thing, please, before everyone starts going down the fuel mapping / Power Commander routes:

Have you stopped pouring Redex into it and had it professionally serviced, so at least all the basics are known to be in good shape?


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To answer Contact 23's enquiry:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-consumption/fuel-mapping-computer.htm Easy to follow pages and a neat (to coin a suitable American idiom) film, too.

http://www.powercommander.com/powercommander/default.aspx

On closer inspection, fuelling seems to have been an ongoing problem with your 04 1200GS since day one, jtw000.

This thread http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=197206 with the swapping of spark plugs, where those that you ordered from ebay and fitted, only to take them out as they were wrong (whatever 'wrong' means) is a taster.

Mix in assorted, "I have done it all myself" and 'fuel economy' type ramblings / postings and it's becoming difficult to see what state your bike may be in.

 

[Brian ROSEN]

"....Redex!!!! there's a product from the past.... squirting it into the carb, clouds of blue smoke & that sickly sweet smell...." No, not as far as I can remember!!! I feel pretty certain that it made no difference at all to anything. It was alleged to be "upper cylinder lubricant" and the experts said that a spoonful of oil into the petrol tank would have the same effect; So I did that for a few years and it certainly produced exactly the same noticeable effects as Redex....none at all;!
Now castrol R was something special but being a vegetable opil it didn't mix well with mineral oil. I did use it for a time when I was running on Methanol insted of petrol during petrol rationong in 1948 - but that is another story.

 

[mechcanico lee]

If the bike sometimes is good on fuel then other days its very bad its not the map thats the problem or unlikely to be, its more likely a sensor problem .......lamdas or air flow sensor or manifold pressure sensor , just some thoughts.

 

[jetjock]

What you need is one of these .
Think it will be my next purchasefor my 12.

I fitted one to my Yamaha R1 and i'm very impressed with the smooth power delivery it now has.

 

[Wapping]

I wouldn't worry your arse Wapping................he's traded it in for a girls bike

Hoorah, a problem solved

I wonder which poor sod will find jtw000's bike too much to resist on the forecourt.

 

[Deleted account 190920002]

Maps well I remember friend and I built this norvello sounds good but it wasn't. anyway next bright idea by us two thickies was to make the venom engine more pokey you guys will never have heard of this but we fitted a ( Wal phillips) I think that's what it was called fuel sort of injector, well Mr phillips certainly injected there was petrol everywhere and eventually it sort of started but as for remapping I would call it recrapping!!! Oh how lucky we are nowadays.

 

[Schtum]

you guys will never have heard of this but we fitted a ( Wal phillips) I think that's what it was called fuel sort of injector,

Who do you think you are, fishy - Methuselah? Of course I remember the bloody awful things....

 

[Deleted account 190920002]

Hey Schtum did it ever catch fire with you??
Bet you never saw an venom engine in featherbed frame though?. Hey the past was fun though wasn't it. We made all OUR own mistakes. Thanks for the picky it is strange though about the past I was doing a refresher course as baader tech in Lubeck in the noughties and one of the guys there had actually run one on of all things a triumph 350. He didn't say much about it though and I kept quiet!!
Ride safe guys some wind here.

 

[Bendy toy]

Mine had infinitely variable fuel consumption when a spark coil was failing. Stick a GS-911 on the thing and get it sorted properly. I didn't and ended up paying most (alright, 50%) of the cost of a 911 for a lambda sensor that I (probably) didn't need. In addition to two primary coils that I did need.

That was my remap budget blown so its still standard mapped.