So for last few months been tootling about on my VX800 with carbs. Interesting comparison re throttle response and behaviour... it pukes out the smell of wasted hydrocarbons like the worlds going to choke. And it feels so strangled with an air box that clearly doesn’t let any air through it ever and an exhaust so strangled it’s a wonder it starts... BUT the magic is the fuelling is perfect. It never holds back because it’s too lean, it never chugs because it’s too rich... it just works. I don’t understand how. You can smell the catastrophe and feel how strangled it is, but the throttle and the bike just work. There’s no hunting / chugging /struggling / complaining or questions about its competence. (Plenty wrong with the rest of the bike... like so little suspension travel even at 220kg of lead, it frequently takes to the sky at any opportunity.
And to the point of the post.... having got the GS out the contrast in joke fuelling is very stark. So I thought lets see if a booster plug I have doing nothing helps... And the answer is ODD, If adaptions are set to std does the cold condition map have to rebuilt its adoptions??? Coz it was horrible, but either I got used to it or it improved. But still quite wrong. So now as I have the power commander still wired but still in a Zero maps after the last software update and the CAT sensor still plugged in .... I'm thinking well with that plug on its far too rich at 3000 and still far too weak at 4500 ....
So IF the adoptions only work on closed loop for extended timeframe....
what happens is I take 3% off at 2% to 5% throttle at 2500 to 3500 (its massively better....) and now about right
and an extra 6% at 4500 at 80% to 100% throttle, (that better too, but not enough yet) and will this adapt out .... I hope not???
And to the point of the post.... having got the GS out the contrast in joke fuelling is very stark. So I thought lets see if a booster plug I have doing nothing helps... And the answer is ODD, If adaptions are set to std does the cold condition map have to rebuilt its adoptions??? Coz it was horrible, but either I got used to it or it improved. But still quite wrong. So now as I have the power commander still wired but still in a Zero maps after the last software update and the CAT sensor still plugged in .... I'm thinking well with that plug on its far too rich at 3000 and still far too weak at 4500 ....
So IF the adoptions only work on closed loop for extended timeframe....
what happens is I take 3% off at 2% to 5% throttle at 2500 to 3500 (its massively better....) and now about right
and an extra 6% at 4500 at 80% to 100% throttle, (that better too, but not enough yet) and will this adapt out .... I hope not???