Auburn
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I recently had my ECU reflashed by Ivan's Performance Products.
Redneck J had been talking with Ivan for some time now and had his reflashed a few weeks ago. He actually bought the ECU that Ivan used as his test mule to develop the tune. He changed his out a few weeks ago at my house and then gave me his ECU to send n for the reflash. Ivan's service is very fast. I sent it in on a Monday afternoon (2nd day air) and he called me Wednesday afternoon to confirm details and to process payment. He shipped it back to me 2nd day air and I had it in my hands that Friday afternoon.
Jay came over and helped me change out the ECU. (Acutally he changed the ECU, while I removed the PC V and Autotune and reinstalled the stock O2 sensor). It took as long to remove and replace the O2 sensor as it did to do the everything else, probably 1 hour total as we were taking pictures for this. (My first ride impressions are at the bottom of the post)
You'll need to remove the tank and the side cover on the left side to access the ECU. Here is the plug removed (and you can see I have tons of extra wires on my bike for all the farkles.)
The plug from the end view
You need to push the white tabs to unlock the pins in the plug
We used a 16 gage brad nail to push the pin and plug out
Here you can see the top of the white plug that J pushed out to swap with the wire in the next slide
Wire being pushed out
Move the wire to the third and put the plug where the wire came from in the first hole.
After the wire and plugs are fully seated, then push the white locking tabs back into place to lock the pins in the plug.
Now remove and replace the ECU (we had an aextra, but you remove and send yours in then put it back)
Once you have the ECU in place, Next you need to reset the CO readings to zero.
First you need to get into diagnostic mode by pressing both buttons and then turn on the key while holding the buttons down. (don't start the bike)
Cycle through all of your CO settings resetting them to 0
All done, time to fire and go test.
First Impressions: (Conditions - 2 up, full tank - premium, remus exhaust with the cores in, PAIR removed, V Stream windscreen fully up, 80+ degrees, headed to the mountains)
I went for a 100 mile two up ride without the trailer. I filled the bike up so I could check mileage when I got back. Mrs AuburnFJR's first comment was how smooth it runs and smooth it shifts. I shift without using the clutch on upshifts by slightly letting off the throttle to unload the transmission and clicking up to the next gear. The power delivery is as smooth as my race bikes were back in the day. The power was smooth at all RPMs, and gears. Not a violent power hit, just a power delivery with a purpose (if that makes sense).
If Yamaha had put a tune like this in the bikes from the factory, you would not need all the work arounds that the Gen II suffered from.
I intentionally did many roll ons from very low RPM in 5th gear. in the 1500 to 2000 RPM range. No surging in the bike, no closed throttle bucking, no throttle lag when rolling on, no surge. Everything you want it to be, but Yamaha didn't deliver. The bike took any throttle input and built power, speed and RPM almost in a linear fashion. Extremely impressive, no valve knock, now hesitation, nothing wasted, just forward momentum.
The power delivery was amazing, this is what the bike should be like.
In talking with Ivan, he said the Gen II has very limited parameters that he can change. He described as the file size for the ECU is 100K, where the Gen III is 1.1M He said with the Gen III he can tune many more parameters as a result.
There is no lag in power delivery as you roll on the throttle, you start moving forward now. I will have to adjust how I ride the bike
It put the sport back into my Gen II. With the performance comes a cost, the bike runs at 5 bars temp now, where it was running at 4 bars before. I can live with that for the performance gains. Mileage an impressive 46.9 MPG two up and screwing around on the throttle. (It was in the mid-30's 2up without the trailer, and 28-30 with the trailer). With my frankentank I now have a legit 450 mile fuel range.
This is definitely one of the better performance upgrades you can do for the Gen II FJR.
Redneck J had been talking with Ivan for some time now and had his reflashed a few weeks ago. He actually bought the ECU that Ivan used as his test mule to develop the tune. He changed his out a few weeks ago at my house and then gave me his ECU to send n for the reflash. Ivan's service is very fast. I sent it in on a Monday afternoon (2nd day air) and he called me Wednesday afternoon to confirm details and to process payment. He shipped it back to me 2nd day air and I had it in my hands that Friday afternoon.
Jay came over and helped me change out the ECU. (Acutally he changed the ECU, while I removed the PC V and Autotune and reinstalled the stock O2 sensor). It took as long to remove and replace the O2 sensor as it did to do the everything else, probably 1 hour total as we were taking pictures for this. (My first ride impressions are at the bottom of the post)
You'll need to remove the tank and the side cover on the left side to access the ECU. Here is the plug removed (and you can see I have tons of extra wires on my bike for all the farkles.)
The plug from the end view
You need to push the white tabs to unlock the pins in the plug
We used a 16 gage brad nail to push the pin and plug out
Here you can see the top of the white plug that J pushed out to swap with the wire in the next slide
Wire being pushed out
Move the wire to the third and put the plug where the wire came from in the first hole.
After the wire and plugs are fully seated, then push the white locking tabs back into place to lock the pins in the plug.
Now remove and replace the ECU (we had an aextra, but you remove and send yours in then put it back)
Once you have the ECU in place, Next you need to reset the CO readings to zero.
First you need to get into diagnostic mode by pressing both buttons and then turn on the key while holding the buttons down. (don't start the bike)
Cycle through all of your CO settings resetting them to 0
All done, time to fire and go test.
First Impressions: (Conditions - 2 up, full tank - premium, remus exhaust with the cores in, PAIR removed, V Stream windscreen fully up, 80+ degrees, headed to the mountains)
I went for a 100 mile two up ride without the trailer. I filled the bike up so I could check mileage when I got back. Mrs AuburnFJR's first comment was how smooth it runs and smooth it shifts. I shift without using the clutch on upshifts by slightly letting off the throttle to unload the transmission and clicking up to the next gear. The power delivery is as smooth as my race bikes were back in the day. The power was smooth at all RPMs, and gears. Not a violent power hit, just a power delivery with a purpose (if that makes sense).
If Yamaha had put a tune like this in the bikes from the factory, you would not need all the work arounds that the Gen II suffered from.
I intentionally did many roll ons from very low RPM in 5th gear. in the 1500 to 2000 RPM range. No surging in the bike, no closed throttle bucking, no throttle lag when rolling on, no surge. Everything you want it to be, but Yamaha didn't deliver. The bike took any throttle input and built power, speed and RPM almost in a linear fashion. Extremely impressive, no valve knock, now hesitation, nothing wasted, just forward momentum.
The power delivery was amazing, this is what the bike should be like.
In talking with Ivan, he said the Gen II has very limited parameters that he can change. He described as the file size for the ECU is 100K, where the Gen III is 1.1M He said with the Gen III he can tune many more parameters as a result.
There is no lag in power delivery as you roll on the throttle, you start moving forward now. I will have to adjust how I ride the bike
It put the sport back into my Gen II. With the performance comes a cost, the bike runs at 5 bars temp now, where it was running at 4 bars before. I can live with that for the performance gains. Mileage an impressive 46.9 MPG two up and screwing around on the throttle. (It was in the mid-30's 2up without the trailer, and 28-30 with the trailer). With my frankentank I now have a legit 450 mile fuel range.This is definitely one of the better performance upgrades you can do for the Gen II FJR.
