AndyH

Oww! Eyewatering! Will watch out for that little surprise. I had thought that prop was safe... Thanks for the tip docc

I never got the swingarm stand approach to work at all - I just kept slipping forward as you try to lift because of the angle of the swingarm. So until I got the OEM stand (oh happy day!), I made do for nearly a year with a trolley jack under the sump and cheap ratchet axle stands on the same nuts the OEM stand uses. I beg to differ from what Docc said (sorry Docc, it worked on my 2000 V11): you can use a trolley jack and a piece of ply under the rear of the sump (as far back as you can without bending the pipe unions), Although I wouldn't recommend doing it on your own, the following worked for me: With the side stand down, use the trolley jack to crank up onto the side stand, until you can fit the right axle stand under its nut, then swap sides and lift up on the left stand and so on, ratcheting up until the back wheel is off the ground. Then lift the front of the sump with the jack and slip a block of wood underneath to hold the front off the ground. Did it many times by myself, but I shudder now to think what might have happened if it had all cut loose so get assistance! That approach should tide you over until you get the OEM stand and its accompanying sump prop delivered asap. Andy

Raceco clearances and ensuring no leaks in the exhaust system joints fixed this one for me

If hardly anyone knows Peroni (v popular at Pizza Express here in UK), then Birra Moretti's well out of the zone is it? Personally, I quite like it...

I believe Stein Dinse use casadimoto who fixed the one that most recently stopped working. I didn't know about the relay feed so will check that out as the way it failed at the time made me think 'loose connection' although nothing immediately presented itself as a candidate.Andy

I was also thinking of getting a V7 for the planned trip next year. While I love the V11 for touring in the UK, a V7 will be more economical to run and lighter, so is much more manageable when wheeling around with a load of luggage on board. I'll be outclassed for power by the wife's Thruxton but I can live with it. That's not what I'm going touring in Italy for. Andy

My bike seems to consistently break tachos. The first one packed up soon after I bought the bike, the second I bought from Dave (he of recent deer-mashing fame) and it packed up after about 2000 miles, the third was a rebuild by Stein Dinse of the first one and that packed up a month ago. While the bike runs and I'm concentrating on staying in one piece in traffic around London I figure I can just live without it... although it would have been handy to identify the revs where I get rough running with the new Mistral X-over. It would be nice to just have one keep working for more than a year. As for physical issues, the counterweight can fall off and it reads max revs all the time or the spring can break meaning it reads nothing most of the time: both seem to have happened to me so far. Andy

Will check on mine...

Driveability is exactly what I'm after Hubert. The X-over makes it nicer in the upper-mid rev range - really flies - but has messed up lower-mid a bit. I work in software so backups and comments are bread and butter to me, but I see how it should work now. And if I do mess up I can import the original backup bin file to return to standard. Andy

Thanks for your replies Hubert and Camn. That clarifies a great deal the main questions I had. So for GuzziDiag I can follow much the same instructions as in the Guzzi manuals... OK. For changing the mappings: I guess I download and mail my .bin file off to the GuzziDiag developers to convert to XDF so I can see or edit the map in Tunerpro. Can I generate an edited bin or do I have to send off the edited XDF to the GuzziDiag developers again to convert back to bin so I can import again? Paul said he wanted to build a library of maps up. Happy to contribute if and when I get that far (and donate to this fabulous project by the way! ). Where is this library and how do we access it? Maybe there's a map already for V11 Sport 2000, Mistral X-over with standard cans. Andy

A better quality cable-with-the-chip was delivered yesterday and GuzziDiag now connects OK on COM4, identifies 'ignition on' and reads the ECU settings when on. I can start playing around with it now - not exactly sure what I'm doing but got to start somewhere. Is there a step by step guide for this stuff? My objective is to get the bike picking up smoother from lower medium revs with a Mistral X-over and standard cans. Andy

Good point... feels more like 'if' at the moment though!

Thanks Haydn, Actually I looked at the alternatives on the 'bay and with a bit of research found the blue one I bought was Chinese with the earlier discontinued chip and cost less than a fiver. So I'll pay a couple of quid more for a better quality item (black) with a current version of the chip and see if that works. Then I can try to return the blue one and recover the cost from the vendor if it turns out it was at fault... Glad these things don't cost more, all I can say. Now, about that TPS harness that danl posted... Guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

Oh, and nope - don't know anyone else with said working setup.

Thanks HaydnR I was beginning to come to the same conclusion... cable comes in two parts so have two items to rule out!! Andy

I'm reluctantly having to admit defeat here... at least temporarily. No matter what I do, it still gives me the same 'Switch on ignition' message, then 'Ignition off'. Of course this time I connected the crocs to the battery...check. The computer recognises the cable OK when plugged in...check. I've changed the port configuration from COM4 to COM5 and then COM6...check. I've uninstalled the v2.08.28 cable driver (bit of a PIA to get rid of the stored later version drivers in Windows, but did it eventually) and installed the earlier v2.08.24 cable driver in case there was a chip incompatibility as suggested by the website...check. Port settings as per website screenshots...check. I've tried different combinations of the above Nada What am I missing here?

Owww! Yes, a sad reminder.... Hope it goes to a good home

From the context I'm guessing you mean at the engine end of the cable?

I concur... ...think he'd ship to the UK? Andy

It recognises it when plugged in on Windows 7 and the device manager shows COM4. However, I was having fun fitting my Mistral X-over and testing it with the standard map this evening so messing around with the GuzziDiag will have to wait till later in the week. Not running too badly on the standard map but doesn't feel clean on the transition to mid range so GuzziDiag should give me some insight as to why. Andy

Got the Mistral X-over delivered today and fitted in less than an hour: I've had far more trouble with bog standard exhausts in the past, so this was a revelation for after-market stuff. It turned out dry this evening - not what was forecast at all - so I fired it up and took it out. First thing I noticed was that it required less choke lever than expected to get going and ran kind of lumpy and reluctant at first but when warmed up it settled in well. More vibes through the pegs and bars in general and a bit lumpy at lower revs (seems to me like it's running rich in that range even when warm), and a bit reluctant to pick up and transition to mid rev range, but a wonderful snarl and surge when I opened her up thereafter, clean all the way up. All this, mind, on a standard ECU map (as far as I know, anyway). I'll give it a week or so, trying out in varied conditions and then try and get the GuzziDiag working see what it says. Thanks for all the advice and comments about this product, guys.

That's worth knowing about, thanks Ken. I'll see how it runs with the Mistral fitted. I'm guessing that if the CO is set too low the bike may run too lean in parts of the range - is that right? One of the guys at the club said to run the new setup for a few days to let things settle in before messing with the ECU, as it can adjust to the new setup. As I have no Lambda sensor on mine I can't quite see how that might work magic perhaps, but who am I to argue when it comes to ECUs - all magic as far as I'm concerned... There's a front moving over today so not the best riding weather for testing and it may take me a few days to get out on the road to do so. Andy

Good to know Dan, looking forward to fitting it when it arrive tomorrow. I just ran the bike this evening in the Garage to see if I could get the GuzziDiag software to work with the new leads (couldn't figure what the extra wires were for but that's another story). The clatter from the standard x-over box is unbelievable at the moment with that loose bit bouncing around inside but you seem to confirm that I may not need to mess with the ECU for now. Andy

OK, well that's a step forward, thanks Ken. Worth knowing about COM6 but I did eventually figure in Device Manager that the port was set up for COM4 - although it wouldn't work anyway without those leads connected. Will try again tomorrow. Andy

One more thing - the ECU end adapter comes with red and black leads with croc clips. I assumed these would be redundant but do these need connecting to something? I don't want to fry the ECU by connecting them i n the wrong place, but maybe that's what I'm missing... Can't find instructions for newbies on this stuff so I'm flying blind here: carbs weren't the easiest things to fettle in their day but this is a different ball game altogether! AndyH