Got up late on Saturday to be greeted with freezing fog, so I didn’t have a chance to try the pipe without the tune other than the duel carriageway. The fog lifted just before I got to the dealers. Had a gab with the spanner man, he likes to look over all my gadgets, the salesman informed me that my resale value was zero now that I had over 10,000 miles on the clock!
The ‘bark’ of the pipe sounds a little less with the correct tune installed but still sounds better than the standard pipe.
On the road and diving normally the bike defiantly feels ‘livelier’, on a couple of occasions I was looking to change up into a higher gear because the acceleration felt like I was in a lower gear than actually was. Between 2500 and 4500 the bike really pulls now, I think that there is a lean area in the standard tune to help with the emissions tests that is solved with the new tune. At higher rpm there isn’t any real feeling of any extra power, there is a slight loss of the ‘kick in the pants’ feeling as the old tune cleared up and the bike took off, now it is just manic acceleration all the way.
Off road (ish) the jerkiness in bottom gear at tick over is a little more pronounced as the FI and the low inertia engine fight each other but that is counteracted by much crisper and more controlled acceleration around the 2000 rpm mark.
So the engine feels lumpy at no throttle, more controlled at part throttle and totally mad at large throttle openings.
I wouldn’t say that it has am arm wrenching performance increase over standard but it makes the grin even bigger
Am I going to put the old one back on?
Err NO
[ This message was edited by: robbie on 2004-01-19 07:25 ]
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