Purchased from the Graves the Flash Tune Type 18 Bench Flash Kit
Removal of the fairing and ECU was very easy and done in less then 15 minutes.
FT ECU kit, straight forward decent quality harness. Software install straight forward but software driver install was difficult for some reason.
Review on bike. I started flashing the bike with only the FT ECU unrestricted file as I do not have my full exhaust yet and only have a slip on. I did not modify any settings from the already made Unrestricted file.
In my past experience Flash Tune has been pretty thorough with their base tunes and generally I have noticed large changes right out the gate. However on the R1, while I was expecting the same, aside from changes of removing some emission based components from the bike really didn't feel any difference to my surprise. Certainly didn't feel like any additional power was gained from the unrestricted map and even things that FTECU always does well like heavily reducing engine braking wasn't really changed and required the user to go in and make changes. For someone like myself who can admit that im not all familiar with how to make changes on the software, and what increments to do, I wasn't really looking for project of dialing in the bike from scratch. I wanted to have a great start point and fine tune if needed from there.
I have not tried the Graves file yet, im sure as typical with Graves their products have excellent R&D, but thus far im not to happy with the FTECU file on its own, which on other motorcycles that I have had flashed with them, I was.
Once my exhaust arrives I will reflash to graves file and report back.
Removal of the fairing and ECU was very easy and done in less then 15 minutes.
FT ECU kit, straight forward decent quality harness. Software install straight forward but software driver install was difficult for some reason.
Review on bike. I started flashing the bike with only the FT ECU unrestricted file as I do not have my full exhaust yet and only have a slip on. I did not modify any settings from the already made Unrestricted file.
In my past experience Flash Tune has been pretty thorough with their base tunes and generally I have noticed large changes right out the gate. However on the R1, while I was expecting the same, aside from changes of removing some emission based components from the bike really didn't feel any difference to my surprise. Certainly didn't feel like any additional power was gained from the unrestricted map and even things that FTECU always does well like heavily reducing engine braking wasn't really changed and required the user to go in and make changes. For someone like myself who can admit that im not all familiar with how to make changes on the software, and what increments to do, I wasn't really looking for project of dialing in the bike from scratch. I wanted to have a great start point and fine tune if needed from there.
I have not tried the Graves file yet, im sure as typical with Graves their products have excellent R&D, but thus far im not to happy with the FTECU file on its own, which on other motorcycles that I have had flashed with them, I was.
Once my exhaust arrives I will reflash to graves file and report back.