I've been catching up on this thread with interest, and I'm wondering if the AF-XIED would be likely to improve my bike's mpg or performance.
Bike:
2000 R1100RT
75k miles (bought one year ago with 57k)
Techlusion 1031 installed by PO
No O2 sensor or CCP. (I have the yellow plug; I'd have to pick up a sensor.)
Maintenance records proper and thorough
35-37 mpg in weeks that I'm mainly commuting
37-38 mpg for long superslab runs at 75-80 mph
Low 40s mpg on long, slow runs.
Aside from the abysmal mpg, the bike is very well behaved -- so well behaved that I wonder if I should even bother messing with it. Still, mpg in the 30s suggests to me that it could be running much better, and a reliable 45mpg would give me a much more comfortable cruising range.
Interestingly, the service records are replete with complaints of surging, and the immediate PO, a good friend of mine, said he experienced it occasionally. Yet in nearly 20k miles, I may have experienced a surge once, and that was the day after the first time I synced the throttles, so I'd suspect even that one was more likely the throttle cable settling in somewhere.
So, I think I have these questions:
1. Is my mpg explainable by the fueling modifications, or do I need to be exploring other issues as well?
2. If I replaced the current configuration with an AF-XIED, would I likely see an improvement in mpg?
3. Am I likely already experiencing the performance benefits of an enriched mixture? Or is it perhaps so enriched that I'm experiencing a performance degradation? I don't have any other oilhead experience to compare to.
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Bike:
2000 R1100RT
75k miles (bought one year ago with 57k)
Techlusion 1031 installed by PO
No O2 sensor or CCP. (I have the yellow plug; I'd have to pick up a sensor.)
Maintenance records proper and thorough
35-37 mpg in weeks that I'm mainly commuting
37-38 mpg for long superslab runs at 75-80 mph
Low 40s mpg on long, slow runs.
Aside from the abysmal mpg, the bike is very well behaved -- so well behaved that I wonder if I should even bother messing with it. Still, mpg in the 30s suggests to me that it could be running much better, and a reliable 45mpg would give me a much more comfortable cruising range.
Interestingly, the service records are replete with complaints of surging, and the immediate PO, a good friend of mine, said he experienced it occasionally. Yet in nearly 20k miles, I may have experienced a surge once, and that was the day after the first time I synced the throttles, so I'd suspect even that one was more likely the throttle cable settling in somewhere.
So, I think I have these questions:
1. Is my mpg explainable by the fueling modifications, or do I need to be exploring other issues as well?
2. If I replaced the current configuration with an AF-XIED, would I likely see an improvement in mpg?
3. Am I likely already experiencing the performance benefits of an enriched mixture? Or is it perhaps so enriched that I'm experiencing a performance degradation? I don't have any other oilhead experience to compare to.
Thanks in advance for any insights!