Holy Crap what a transformation of speed and control. I put on some Elka Shocks and installed the flashed ECU. You can actually relax about what gear you're in (to a degree of course) and just hammer it when the need arises. I love not having to always downshift to access the power/torque. I still found myself applying the throttle like it was before the flash which made for some shenanigans.Īnd as I previously stated and you just mentioned, "This low rpm flashed power gain is huge for two up riding, merging on an interstate, pulling a trailer and two up passing on short stretches of back roads" is HUGE. With the only thing still catching me out at times being getting out of the hole. With the front tire in the air to boot! By the end of my 160 mile romp I had sorted out everything and the throttle was becoming second nature pretty much. My Ducati Monster S4RS had a laser focused throttle that required the utmost attention to detail or all hell was gonna break loose. But I've spent the last 40 years on 2 wheels and you know how sensitive and responsive the throttles on some bikes can be. It'll spin at speed if I give it a good twist, making corners a whole new delight! As far as getting used it, it really wasn't hard for me. I couldn't keep at it as I was in a populated area those times and I forgot to "revisit" it again once out in the boonies, I was caught up in other aspects of the flash. If I get into it and not let up to allow the tire to hook up, I had it spin into 4th. This makes it very responsive and quite sensitive. I am the outlier as far as wheel spin goes since I had Steve change my throttle behavior (it now takes less rotation to reach WOT). So, How many gears are you spinning rubber now? And how quickly are you able to adapt to basically a new Spyder?He Dennis! Good to see you here. Even the exhaust tone was "healthier" with an ever so light burble on deceleration. Short of bogging it in ways you really shouldn't. So much so in my case with the new throttle settings and my byke having always been strong there, that I had to relearn throttle application all over again! You can do pretty much anything you can think of and still have much improved power/torque on tap. The increased power/torque is there right off the line and as far as the rev limiter will let you go. I am 100% stoked with this flash and how my byke runs now! You don't even need to run it up in the rpm range to get results. The distance needed to a chosen speed was greatly reduced with NONE of the throttle control intrusion evident in the stock flash! Once I had split up from my riding partner and left to my own devices, I was able to apply a serious thrashing of the flash thru the entire rpm range to the top of every gear EXCEPT 6th (I had a "tail" at that time). It was throwing a P0172 code around 3800 and having hesitations around 7k. Dennis in Lodi who had great results on his RT with a 79t sprocket had some issues with the flash when it was applied to his F3L with the 89t. I spent a fair amount of time trying to make the flash show any faults it may have had by making unusually low rpm shifts, crazy shifts etc etc. Right out of my driveway I knew this was gonna be fun! I put 160 miles on it that day with all sorts of different riding conditions (city, boonies, casual acceleration, hamfisted stuff etc). I should qualify this by saying that I am going to be changing out the primary/cat for the unit from RLS when it becomes available and told Steve to set the "fueling" for that configuration. This time around the ECU flash is delivering impressive results! I have a 2015 F3-S with the primary muffler/cat in place and the Akrapovic Straight Shot silencer currently. There were delays in getting back on the bike but that finally happened on the 6th of this month. Fast forward to Feb 14th of this year when I had to have some surgery to correct the inability to breathe properly and knowing that I would be down for the count, I sent my ECU back to Monster (it actually went to his partner business here in the states in Louisiana) to be flashed again. Being that I ride pretty much year round I wasn't gonna send it back until either the weather turned really bad or for some other reason I wasn't gonna be riding. When I had my ECU flashed the first time I had ZERO improvements with it. I thought it prudent to put out an update in a fresh new thread for anyone exploring this 'upgrade option" and for those who may start reading the other thread and not see my short "update" or whatever. Some of you may know me from another thread about this procedure from Monster Fuel Injection in Canada and my initially poor results.
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