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What the hell does 'mental acuity' mean? Hubert

What happened here? Easy! She met one of those heroes that stick strictly to the manual. 15.000 miles - change motor oil. That's no choke (aaargh, joke, of course), such people are around out there. Or it was one of those who try to keep the oil level always above max. level, just for being safe. Last idea: the jap bike in front ran out of fuel - the only bottle available was the half filled oil bottle from the jap bike in the background. Because it's so easy to fill up oil into Guzzis, they decided to empty the bottle into the V11 for having something to get fuel from the Guzzi to the first japy. Can't see any reason why she writes she's happy not to have a Guzzi. Hubert

Interesting, thanks for the link. @GuzziMoto I think I'd first make an experiment with stiffer oil in the left leg. I'm still a bit skeptical about closing one whole... Hubert

This sounds reasonable. Maybe I'll try it one day. Anyway I feel the fork already be too stiff, but I'm no pro here. Hubert

Fair, ok, we are forum friends Let me repeat it anyway: it's not the oil pump that keeps the parts separated. Hovercrafts are another nice example. The relatively small vents could never keep the boat hovering, being a good lot heavier as the biggest helicopter is. It's the hydroplaning effect - not the pump or in this case the vent. For the flickering oil lights - I know that for some a flickering oil light is a reason to nearly jump off the bike, and taking an oil light serious is of course a good idea. On the other hand, all my VW beetles had the light ON, not flickering, at idle, making good vibs at 400 rpm. All these engines made more than 300.000 kms, always giving all of their brute 34 hp Hubert

Do these bikes have different TP-sensors? The map Dave shows is the one spread by Wayne as basic V11. And why not, the V11 was sold from 1999 (the parts may be even older) to 2005 or 2006. That's a lot of time, making possible lots of different genuine standard maps. Now an interesting question: a standard V11 compared to a standard 1100 Sport i.e. Does someone know something about any values? How about EPA requirements or what we call it here Euro1 - Euro2 - Euro3? Hubert

It'S not necessarily so. Oilpressure is only needed to press the oil from the pump to the bearings. These average 3 bars never would be enough to keep the parts in an engine apart from each other. On the other hand - a glowing pressure light at idle is not really a bad thing. This low pressure might easily be enough to make the hydrdynamic principles work. Why not look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_%28mechanical%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_bearing Hubert

Funny how stunning ideas can be the moment you see them the first time, isn't it?

If you keep in mind that an assembled crankshaft can be cheaper you're thinking forward again. Hubert

Probably enough said to this topic, EPA and stuff like that. What was the original theme of this tread? A more interesting question to those who know what they do would be: do the OEM maps generally show too much or too less spark advance when only torque is the goal? My opinion is that OEM maps have too much spark advance, but that's probably contrary to that what most people believe. That's why I'm asking. Hubert

Did EPA say cold air into the manifold gives clean air at the tail pipe? I doubt that. And real life is not the dragstrip. About this marvelous dentist Dr.John: he tried to convert this "vintage crap", as you call it, into a competitive race bike. Being engineers, not dentists, they knew and know at Guzzi, that their V90 concept will never give a competitive race engine. It just means a lot of money wasted and so they said no to it, and they did right so. Besides that, the frame was not his idea and the engine was not his idea. The biggest part he brought along was the money he had made as a dentist. Hubert

And don't overlook the fact, that such a cheap 2D map based EFI system is capable to fullfill stricter and stricter EPA requirements without loosing to much power and driveability. The most advanced Mikuni, Dell'Orto or elsewhat carb would see no land against this. 100 years old - ROFLMAO

I'd really not change it. It's a dirt cheap fork and it works as designed. The bottom valve is not meant to work as a low speed damping element. You should accept that low speed range is not adjustable. If you close the wholes you've to open the valve more or less completely to achieve a smooth responding fork - but then without any reserve for unexpected bumps or sudden break manouvers. That's nothing special. In fact most of the forks actually found in midclass bikes are not adjustable at this point. Also this does not mean the Marzocchi was an unusable or even bad fork, it's just not high end. Hubert

Really! As GuzziMoto also says. Do a search here and you'll find more postings about it. Hubert

Those 40 Marzocchis don't have a compression damping as you might have seen on other forks. It's only some sophisticated sort of bottom out protection. The compression damping works only on the last 20-40mm or so. Hubert

I can see your point. Anyway, that's what I've been told. The dead time problem is addressed in the Weber ecu.

Aren't you one of the guys who's taking money from his customers for stuff that youself call "not even close to ideal"? Based on hours of obviously useless dyno time? Hubert

Didn't you find his documentation helpfull, lately? Look at the single maps. Pulsewidth is the sum of all of them. No multiplying of factors, so no % mistakes or arithmetical overcompensation. This way also negative compensation numbers are possible. Hubert

Ok, "rethought", the point is your's. Hubert

Read again and carefully: Wayne explains here why a PC cannot work as expected under certain conditions. This does not explain why dead time should be separated from the injection table. Hubert

Definitely standard!

That's the point, and that's the reason I like the My15M so much. A wide band O2 probe and running the thing closed loop was and still is such an amazing experience for me. The more as I once had a dead bike caused by a dead OEM ecu. BTW, have you ever thought of retarding the advance curve? After reading here and there a bit I think the common OEM method to reach EPA requirements is to give more advance as the engine would need (is it called EPA in the US, these environmental law bureaus?) Hubert

How come? Hubert