Mad Farquhar

Now weeded & sorted - in the short term.

Blimey Carl, what are you planning for $2k?

The clever wee iOS app from Norbar says that 120Nm is equivalent of 88.50745791 lbf.ft. I don't doubt it is correct. I tend to torque by blood vessels or pounding in the ears myself.

This was the state of my one! The actual bearing change out was relatively ok - once I learned where to beat the fcuk out of it. The new seal took a bit of burping - make sure you clean the seal face as well as you can as I am now a dab hand at stripping the bevel box down and rebuilding - about 35 mins from bike into lab and down off bench. The rusty bit on the bevel gear "shaft" needs to be cleaned up really really well.

Not really - was in that position almost exactly a year ago. It will come out. Mine came out whole but somewhat distorted :-), but as Lubho said I went for it from the other side. Pulled the bigger bearing out (also Allow you to check / change out seal!) and the coppery washery spacey thingie and then drifted from inside out. Considered dremel but didn't want to groove the bearing housing if I slipped - mind you it may provide an avenue for greasing! By doing it this way you can give the plenum a really good clean up and realise why there was so much rust pissing out of the axle on rainy days.

Tim FWIW: If it doesn't fart and pop too badly with original map then I suggest persevering with what you have, especially as it worked reasonably well before. Its also a useful baseline to work from. If you use someone else's map then you might find you go back a step. If you have closed loop then a couple of hours should sort out any lean or rich parts of the matrix. If not closed loop then enrich up across the map (to be on the safe side) and then work towards leaning out gradually. I found dyno work counter productive but that was because i hadn't a clue what I was doing (still don't really!). Optimiser and decent o2 feedback takes guess work out of it. V11 owners may be able to advise what the afr, in general, is likely to be at various areas. With your mods these may be subtly different. I know I was quite surprised how thirsty my 1100 sporti is - it seems to run best at afrs of circa 12.5 or even lower at some points - but that (as Raz would say) is the dyno-bum method. There seems to be some recent issues with passwords on the forum - not sure if this is part of your problem. I suggest you email CJ to sort out your access. He is pretty prompt at responding generally but maybe is off chasing thermals with all that hot weather over NSW :-) gav

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The comment " Does it come with clown shoes?" had me giggling.

http://www.thisoldtractor.com/guzzitech.dk/gb_en_gallery_1100sport.htm#modifications_-2005_-_2007-_brembo_psc16_master_cylinder Of any use?

Cliff will no doubt pitch in but the myEcu forum is the place to visit to catch up on developments. There is a link on the left hand side of the website IIRC.

Looks a bit precious but I'd shag her. Quite fancy the Stone with spokey wheely things tho'. The cast jobs don't quite do it for me.

Its even easier now the Android app I have developed and a bluetooth connection to the MyECU. +1

When I uploaded the clip onto YouTube I came across several other similar clips and one thing that struck me is how tippety tappety they all sound! Is this a function of the camera mic or my brain (what's left of it) discriminating out sounds I would rather not hear or sumfink?

Finally got around to digging out the old video camera which has a better mic than phone has. Short but sweet clip. They are Mistrals apparently - no markings that I can see. Bought second hand and not much between the exhaust v/v and the end of the can frankly.

I found that rather tough right from the first time I read about this box and its availability as a kit! Nevertheless I'd be really sorry should you decide rationaly and put it off your list. For me the DIY idea has been the biggest thing with MyEcu. Hubert Ditto. Fitting "a box" is not the same in terms of ownership and the learning process. I can, however, understand why you would stop the kit option.

Well observed Hubert. It has to be said though, that some manufacturers' instructions leave a great deal to be desired: they often assume too much knowledge/ability on the part of the user and also forget to include important information because, of course, they know what they are doing (or in some cases just think they do). I write documentation for a living (including instructions) so when I have a new part in one hand and the paper in the other hand, I often wonder how well kit/instrument suppliers test their words out on customers before release... AndyH What's your method for making your technical writing "idiot" proof? In my work procedures tend to be referred to by management -to explain why something went bang usually. Operators tend to use "little black books" and their experience - these are the "live" documents. Updating procedures and the management of change issues surrounding them tend to bog down the process and turn off the actual people who operate and have the real life practical knowledge. In this case; myECU, RTFM + a modicum of applied logic is the maxim. Also when you have a problem there is a tendency to get in too deep when you really need to back off and do something else. Joe has a problem which Cliff offered to resolve and pretty efficiently if I know him. Joe had that decision to make. As with anything associated with Guzzis a certain amount of thrashing about in the unknown before the lamp comes on is par for the course. It's a matter of deciding whether you waste time farting about, getting in too deep and, possibly making it worse, or you bite the bullet and get help. I would suggest Joe has been in the farting about stage too long and is feeling pretty frustrated. Zapping card 1 wont have helped. This is needless and a shame for his overall myECU experience. Been there, done that - got the t-shirt. Hopefully the outcome will be more positive.

+ Sending the unit to Cliff = 2 sound consecutive decisions

From Cliffs website:- Reality check MyECU is the development of one individual. I'm not a company of thousands of engineers like Weber Marelli. I cannot hope to provide you with the quick response and fixes that you have come to expect from Weber Marelli. Seems a simple and honest caveat to me.

Try Parallels for Mac - I use it to run Windaes on some Macs I have. I run some mapping and charting (hillwalking / sailing) software and also have run CJs myECU controller and the Innovate LC1 s/ware on what is rapidly becoming a "left behind" MacBook. Later Parallels versions seem more efficient. Be warned however - it does work best if you have loads of RAM and a fast processor tho'. Also you will need to faff about with usb settings.