The Guru's Blog
6/5/09 The VMOA - Great Plains South region is having an event Sunday, June 28 in Topeka, KS. We will be renting the Harley Davidson dyno from 8-5. Sean Morley is providing a BBQ lunch. A group of us are heading down the Friday before to hang out and ride. Last year we had over 200 dyno runs. For more information please email either Sean Morley or Mark Milne.
Sad news from the e-mail today.
Subj: First Known Celebrity Swine Flu Fatality
And we all know who gave it to him…
If anyone else has an event to post, e-mail it to me and I will put it up. Work day for me today. I may play around this afternoon in the shop.
6/4/09 Something for the calendar. Second annual UFO DAY AT THE DRAGS at Thompson Raceway Park is July 11th. Bring your Max, sportbikes welcome!
Surfing tonight. Neat link to a Dark Knight bike. Can't read the site, so I just looked at the pictures. Neat link about weird helmets. Seen some of them before.
I think this is a huge discovery!
I think this allows you to adjust the factory Fuel Injection zones. I will test this to see what happens. I will make a full page for this tonight when I have time. Thanks to Gary in TN for sending me in the right direction!
6/3/09 Started installing the PCV today. Since I still want the data logging portion of the LM-2, I tig welded another bung in the exhaust pipe. I now have 2 wide band O2 sensors. One for the LM-2 and one for the Auto Tune. It was nice that I have the prototype Cat Sass pipes that are painted instead of coated. All I had to do was wire brush the paint off to weld the extra bung in:
I have been looking at the Auto Tune hookup and I think the LM-2 can do the same thing with one O2 sensor. If a simulated analog voltage in proportion to the current O2 level will work, I can program the LM-2 to simulate this analog O2 signal. This way I can cut down on the number of devices attached to the bike for now. I may change this when the LCD screen comes out, but I love the data logging capabilities of the LM-2. Something to study. I took some Oscope measurements of the Grave Motorsports EXUP eliminator and it works as I expected it did.
Bad day at the shop yesterday. The slick does not like the dyno. Best I can figure, the slick got too hot and expanded. When the bike hit the rev limiter, it bounced like it usually does on the dyno except this time the expanded rear tire picked up the metal covering immediately to the rear of the drum. It did so right as I hit the rev limiter in 5th gear. What followed was 180mph burnout. I wound up having to pull the bike off the dyno, repair the drum cover and go get a new tire mounted. I am posting this video so show the real risk, expense and effort this BBW project is causing me. It's fun until stuff gets broke. I never dreamed the slick would do this:
I study, I learn, I move on.
As for Hal (mentioned below), don't post anything on his site. That is what he is after. Let's just laugh at the bitter ravings of an old man that has had his fun, lost the faculties to do so himself, and hates anyone that still can. Everybody has their place in society. Unfortunately some men choose to reside at the rear end.
In the shop again today.
6/2/09 Hal's back at it again!
Comment Quote: "You may be many, but you're all disturbed if you think that the VMax 1700 is a) beautiful, b) relevant, c) anything other than an overpowered penis extension that should be banned from public roads NOW.BAN VMAX NOW!
SET VMAX RIDERS ON COMMUNITY SERVICE!
HAVE THEM CLEAN UP ROADSIDE DITCHES IN CHAIN GANGS WHILE REASONABLE RIDERS LIKE ME DRIVE BY ON RATIONAL MOTORCYCLES AND THROW ROTTEN TOMATOES AT THEM!"
Today I will be in the shop. I hope to shoot a video of UFO's Max Tuner and how to adjust it. People should be getting theirs soon. Then I will be installing the Dynojet Power Commander PCV and Auto Tune. I will try to fuel the BBW YCC-T fix on the dyno and see what's down there. If it proves to be something worth pursuing, I will continue on with the electronic version. Then I hope to pull the slick off, put a Evoluzione throttle controller on and ride my V-Max.
There are only 5 copies of the Jay Gleason DVD left. I will remove the waiting list from the website Sunday.
6/1/09 I will start a new June page tonight. (Done, your reading it). Still having internet connection problems. I have uploaded the video of the first dyno run of the YCC-I fix. I built the electronic version on a bread board last night. It uses a PIC stamp with a A/D converter to read the TPS / APS and D/A converter to output the APS to the ECU. One side trick I discovered, it will also act as an electronic throttle tamer. Still having some serial issues with it. I may build an all analog one using op amps and logic circuits.
The homebrew ABS jumper for diagnostics. Click pic to see how:
