I have a friend with a C14 who delved into, what if's, with his bike .He is a much experienced engine builder. Shoodabenengineering.com
Many threads on the journey on COG forum
With remapping work (lots of it, on road, not on dyno) he was able to totally transform a stock C14. It all started trying to smooth out the choppy on /off low speed throttle.
End result was huge . (An unexpected ,nor really sought after 15hp gain). But not even going there, the bike is night and day smoother to drive. It feels slower by the butt dyno, but is considerably quicker, because peakiness is gone, and it pulls like a train from 2000rpm up to 10,000rpm.A side effect has also been a mpg increase of 5mpg by majority of the , now 100's of C14 owners who have reflashed with his map.
Only adding this to show that thinking outside the box is not necessarily a bad thing.
Now the C14 engine has/had much more untapped potential than the FJR has with it's ram air intake, variable valve timing, and secondary throttle plates, but SISF still thinks there is some reliable upgrade potential to the FJR ,IF, you want to run Premium fuel, but as yet the FJR ECU has not been cracked.
His stock 2012 C14 was slightly faster in acceleration,(from my 14 FJR) from 1st gear rolling drag race starts to roll ons at any speed. After his final edition of his flash that he has taken to market, It will frankly embarrass my FJR in street style acceleration comparisons, while at the same time NOW (slightly)bettering it in fuel mileage .
Don't get me wrong, I still love my FJR and don't think I would trade for a C14 (as I feel for a smaller guy (5'8") the FJR is a better fit) BUT had the new 2014 C14 performed as they do with his flash, I never would have tried the FJR because I was disappointed with the C14 driveability.
Very interested to see improvements without effecting reliability that can be brought to the FJR.
Also admitting that I, really have no need for anything better than the FJR as it is , EXCEPT to tune out the on off throttle snatchiness at low rpm.
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