As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Ok, but to cut down on the confusion, it would probably be best to discuss non-PC V topics outside of this thread.Nope, not aimed at you.
I personally wouldn't want one without the other since my rides usually start at sea level, hit 3-4000 ft. and back to sea level again.Ok, but to cut down on the confusion, it would probably be best to discuss non-PC V topics outside of this thread.
My very specific comment was: If someone is getting a PC V, in my opinion, getting a Autotune module with it would be a good idea.
Installed. Bit of a mission though, trying to get the plugs through the gap between airbox and tank, and then trying to push hard enough for the clip thing to clip in on the throttle sensor.
The thing cruises at low speed now, no more jerkyness and missing, it just putts along nicely and is more responsive now![]()
There is something going on though with what I think people have called a 'hanging idle' where it seems to take a while to drop down to idle after throttle off. Kind of annoying. Surely a map or something will sort it.
The PCV installation requires the removal of the stock 02 sensor. even if you don't install the autotune which has it's own O2 sensor. Thus, the stock ECU can't adjust for elevation changes, or any other closed loop stuff because it's forced into open loop by the removal of the O2 sensorCoffee said: My very specific comment was: If someone is getting a PC V, in my opinion, getting a Autotune module with it would be a good idea.Indorider said: I personally wouldn't want one without the other since my rides usually start at sea level, hit 3-4000 ft. and back to sea level again.
The stock ECU would take care of the altitude change. I doubt, or at least hope, the the autotune does not correct for altitude. It's purpose is to get a good tune on the bike. Once that is accomplished, the ECU itself will take care of things like temperature, air density, altitude, etc.
"The PCV installation requires the removal of the stock 02 sensor. even if you don't install the autotune which has it's own O2 sensor. Thus, the stock ECU can't adjust for elevation changes, or any other closed loop stuff because it's forced into open loop by the removal of the O2 sensor
So, the autotune does correct for altitude. it's purpose is to *maintain* a good tune on the bike, in real-time under all conditions."
Interesting. But shouldn't a PCV without autotune also compensate for altitude and other changing conditions?
Mine too! My dealer is removing my ECU and associated equipment to send to Husky who says they will use their Moss tool to try and fix the issue. Apparently, these things have to be very lean to pass emissions testing but there are some with problems and some without so I'm hoping there is a fix. I'll let you know when my stuff is back from Husky and on the bike.
Without the stock O2 sensor there is no feedback to the ECU, so it cannot tell how rich/lean the exhaust is. I was surprised myself when I saw the PCV instructions say to disconnect the stock 02 sensor, regardless of autotune installation. I guess dynojet just uses the stock open loop map, and modifies that. (unless you install autotune as well, then the 02 is read from the exhaust)
You can run more than one map, if you chose not to install an autotune unit, and have a switch to manually change between those maps. as far as I can tell, there's no way the PCV alone can compensate for altitude changes. I'm not even sure if the bikes ECU takes ambient air temp into account in it's open loop map. perhaps someone who knows can chime in.
--Chris
Not as far as I am concerned, no. Though it will quite probably run better. Not sure because I did not put a PCV on my TR650.Please forgive the dumb question but will installing the PCV alleviate the need to have the bike "MOSSED?'
Thanks,
Craig