Hello All,
I was advised that someone needed some anti-pinging help here with the TMAX, so here goes:
The TMAX is a great device, but like all tuning devices, you need to know how to get where you need to be. In the manual, it states that you can make changes on the maps, but make sure to save them, so you can go back to where it worked well. There is a step that needs to be clarified. In the examples posted here, if you want to make a change, do the following in order, to fix the problems created by LF's. This may be written somewhere, but I don't think so, in English anyway..
Oh yes, do this on a cold bike, best that way.
1. The assumption is that this is a build that has a good Zippers map created.
2. That Zippers created the perfect map for the build if it was an engine by Zippers, or, its a map for parts and pieces or exhaust that match a map that Zippers has.
1.Therefore, if you have made arbitrary map changes along the way ,(and this applies to the Thundermax and any engines and changes) go back and download the original map that was supplied.
2. Assuming you are clear, and know how to do this, the download will warn, This map will overwrite, do you want to continue? Yes.
3. Go to the basic settings, and make sure your speedo and limiter and idle is set where you want it, and save this map at this point, under something other than the stock one. We will be making additional changes.
4. Initialize the map by doing the on and off 3 times, and then unlink from the computer. Leave bike on on the 3rd initialize sequence.
5. OK, now link it back up, and read the module. Make sure it read showing the original map, and the map you created (this is a double check, but do it. You want to make sure that it 'took'
6. This is important. The Offsets that were learned, I have found, can really confuse everything, so what I will absolutely do, on any change, is make sure of the following:
a. Select Clear Learned Offsets, and do it.
b. Select Idle Learned Offsets and do it too.
For some reason, becasue it is a computer, I do not want any remnants in the computer that can in any way try and make auto corrections to any points that I previously changed. For example, if the setting I used told the computer to retard timing, and loaded it, everything that I was doing would continually try and make those corrections, and 'learn' what to do when confronted with that change. If I change something else, like fuel AFR, without clearing it out, in my mind, it is possible that the old setting will have the learning curve, and now, with the change, it will try and correct the corrections. I hope I explained this properly, or hope you get the drift anyway. I want to make sure that all of that is gone, period.
Now, you have the original map, and a totally cleared learned offset and idle learn totally cleared out., So naturally, you are going to re-do the IAC.
Now, you start the bike, then activate the link, then activate the auto IAC and wait and monitor until the temp is up to 289. Not 295, or 275, but 289 +- 1 or 2.
Then hit IAC auto to disengage it, and then unlink, then stop bike.
Now you have a fresh, undistorted map. Is this overkill? I am not sure. I know a couple of tricks and things about the TMAX and this workes flawlessly for me. Now, I also discovered that if you are only just changing exhaust, this is not neccessary at all, but I do it anyway. Other changes, regarding AFR and Timing, absolutely I do the above. It is no big deal, and always pleasantly surprises me with the result.
So, you go and ride the bike. The auto tune will learn in the stock setting for learning, very quickly. Just a hop around the neighborhood will be a great tell tale. See if it is pinging. If so, make SMALL changes, in the range for example, if you have a little pinging around 2500 to 3000, lower the timing line 1 degree in that range.. See, for this FIRST CHANGE, the learning has already commenced, and you do NOT need to clear anything out. BUT if you want to make additional changes forward, best to CLEAR OFFSETS. Normally, just the cruise offsets, NOT the re do on the Idle offsets. OK, you make andother change? Yup, clear em out. Now, you are saving each time the map, under a new name, after you make each change.
But the key is make sure you clear out the offsets that the computer learned, so each change starts with a new slate. Any Questions?
Rhino(opinionsarenumerousbutmostofthetimetheyworkwhenisayso)