The much discussed AF-XIED arrived today 
My bike is running with a y-piece and Remus Revolution can with the baffle removed. Air filter is stock. I had a Booster Plug fitted, which I have disconnected in total. Before I did anything I also reset the motronic. Fuse 5 out for the 15 mins it takes to fit the AF-XIED. The fuse was popped back in at the end, ignition on and open/close the throttle a few times.
Fitting was very straightforward, remove the tank and locate the lambda connector by the right headstock.
Here it is:
Cut the zip ties and connect inline the AF-XIED. Re-secure them back to the frame.
There is plenty of length to run the unit so that it sits on the airbox. You can also buy extender cables if you want to site it elsewhere. There is one earth lead on the AF-XIED to connect to the battery negative or any good chassis earth.
Mine came set to '6 flashes', but on Rogers advice I set it to 8 flashes of the LED. You just turn the little control pot with a jewelers screwdriver. When you start the engine the yellow LED on the unit will flash, just count how many. If you make an adjustment you need to switch off and restart the engine in order that you can see the 'flash count'. The red LED is just 'power on'. Once the flash sequence is over, the yellow and green LED's come into play to give you a rough guide as to how rich or weak you mixture is. Green on its own indicates a good AFR.
The road test showed the bike to fuel well. Strangely the exhaust note has slightly changed as well? It didn't seem to be a massive improvement on how the bike was running pre-AF-IED though
I then set the unit to ' 7 flashes'. Again fuelling seemed good, but I was initially not overwhelmed by the perceived slight improvement.
However, half way through this ride I realized I was now going round town at 25-30 mph in 4th gear with instant drive available. What I had missed was the fact that the engine is much more responsive and as a result I was always in the next gear up, so to speak. By consciously using each gear through the rev range it is clear that the bike accelerates quicker, with strong acceleration way past the normal speed limits .
The 1150 is not that short of torque, but with the AF-XIED fitted it appears to be stronger over the entire rev range. My bike never really suffered much surging, but what little there was has gone. The exhaust has lost the backfire/burble on the overrun almost completely. So yes, it really does work.
Now, over the next few tanks of fuel It should improve even more, which will be nice, as everything 'adapts' so to speak (according to Roger).
Im not saying that chipping the motronic is not an alternative because I have never fitted one, Ill leave that to Roger and John to sort out
.
For me the advange is I can change exhausts, filter etc and adjust the AFR to suit without any worries over whether the chip (or remapping) will no longer be suitable for my setup.
My bike is running with a y-piece and Remus Revolution can with the baffle removed. Air filter is stock. I had a Booster Plug fitted, which I have disconnected in total. Before I did anything I also reset the motronic. Fuse 5 out for the 15 mins it takes to fit the AF-XIED. The fuse was popped back in at the end, ignition on and open/close the throttle a few times.
Fitting was very straightforward, remove the tank and locate the lambda connector by the right headstock.
Here it is:
Cut the zip ties and connect inline the AF-XIED. Re-secure them back to the frame.
There is plenty of length to run the unit so that it sits on the airbox. You can also buy extender cables if you want to site it elsewhere. There is one earth lead on the AF-XIED to connect to the battery negative or any good chassis earth.
Mine came set to '6 flashes', but on Rogers advice I set it to 8 flashes of the LED. You just turn the little control pot with a jewelers screwdriver. When you start the engine the yellow LED on the unit will flash, just count how many. If you make an adjustment you need to switch off and restart the engine in order that you can see the 'flash count'. The red LED is just 'power on'. Once the flash sequence is over, the yellow and green LED's come into play to give you a rough guide as to how rich or weak you mixture is. Green on its own indicates a good AFR.
The road test showed the bike to fuel well. Strangely the exhaust note has slightly changed as well? It didn't seem to be a massive improvement on how the bike was running pre-AF-IED though
I then set the unit to ' 7 flashes'. Again fuelling seemed good, but I was initially not overwhelmed by the perceived slight improvement.
However, half way through this ride I realized I was now going round town at 25-30 mph in 4th gear with instant drive available. What I had missed was the fact that the engine is much more responsive and as a result I was always in the next gear up, so to speak. By consciously using each gear through the rev range it is clear that the bike accelerates quicker, with strong acceleration way past the normal speed limits
. The 1150 is not that short of torque, but with the AF-XIED fitted it appears to be stronger over the entire rev range. My bike never really suffered much surging, but what little there was has gone. The exhaust has lost the backfire/burble on the overrun almost completely. So yes, it really does work.
Now, over the next few tanks of fuel It should improve even more, which will be nice, as everything 'adapts' so to speak (according to Roger).
Im not saying that chipping the motronic is not an alternative because I have never fitted one, Ill leave that to Roger and John to sort out
.For me the advange is I can change exhausts, filter etc and adjust the AFR to suit without any worries over whether the chip (or remapping) will no longer be suitable for my setup.
