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Summary: Modern motorcycles use software to manager their fuel injection systems and it must be installed. Learn how to do this from a motorcycle repair expert in this free video clip.
Josh Villapegue has been the owner of I 3 for the past 3 years. He specializes in customizing motorcycles, classic cars, exotic cars and T-Rex's. He is sponsored by Famous Stars and...read more
"Alright, after you install the power commander and get everything back together, what you will need to do is load the software. You take the disc, you throw into your laptop or p.c. or whatever you have, get it all loaded up and what you will do is you will have a prompt to go and select which bike you have and which set up and once you get in there and pick everything you need to find. This application is an '07 GSX 600 with a R-55 Yoshimera full exhaust system and a stock air cleaner. And that's actually listed under there as an option. You go grab it, it loads up and bam; this is what it will look like. This is the entire map for this bike. All we need to do is take this USB and we are going to go in here to the power commander. You are going to plug the plug into it and you are going to plug this into the USB port of your laptop and then you go, you're going to click on open map file, and then send map. (demonstrating) Hear the change? Basically, if you look right here you can see the rpm's. And we are just basically making sure that the map took and everything is good. Throttle response sounds real good. Just let the bike warm up a little bit. We'll go ahead and put it back on the stand and we'll get the tire moving. Bam. She is broken in and done. You're always going to see some smoke coming out of the pipe, off the header. Everything is brand new, don't worry about it. A lot of packing material and little bits of debris get down into the pipe when it comes in shipping so that's all just going to burn out. It might smell bad for a couple of days but don't be alarmed. Nothing crazy is going on. But, our map's loaded. The bike seems to be running awesome, it sounds great and we are going to go take it for a test ride outside."
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