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Power Commander cure for snatchiness?

easygee

easygee

2011-09-04 05:36:00 UTC

I commute with my bike every day and the low gear snatchiness is irritating the hell out of me. I had the bike for over a year now and have become quite a Jedi with the clutch, but it is still bad. Will the Power Commander cure this?

Thanks in advance

ktmguy

ktmguy

2011-09-04 05:39:00 UTC

Yes.
But cheaper and easier is get the tuneecu cable and download a map from here.
Better result as you can also turn other stuff on and off like the SAS, it is a diagnostic tool and it is free exept for the cable. (round $50)
Read up on it in the tuneecu topic.

easygee

easygee

2011-09-04 05:45:00 UTC

I'll check it out, thanks.

ktmguy

ktmguy

2011-09-04 05:51:00 UTC

Let us know what year your bike is and SD or SDR we can advice you a map that works.

easygee

easygee

2011-09-04 05:56:00 UTC

It is an 2008 SD with original exhaust

MrZ32

MrZ32

2011-09-04 06:37:00 UTC

by the sound of it it is a fairly stock bike.

Without spending much I would do the following.

-Get tuneECU and a cable.
-Turn off the 02 sensors (with tuneECU)
-make sure the TPS is adjusted correctly (tuneECU diagnostics mode)
-make sure the throttlebodies are balanced (again can be done with tuneECU)
-if you are confident enough to remove the secondary flies and shafts do this and also turn off in tuneECU (those who dont agree with this mod tend to have never removed them in the first place; however it smoothens the throttle response as there is not an extra set of butterflies moving independantly of the ones cotrolled by your right hand)
-while at it with tune ecu you may as well turn off the 2nd and 3rd gear restricter
-as you have the stock exhaust DO NOT REMOVE OR TURN OFF THE SAS, this is required to keep your catalytic converter clean and free flowing (as much as the stock exhaust can be anyway)

next step towards smoothness requires a fair amount of money and includes a motobox or equivelent and there is not much point in doing this without the exhaust.

KTM666

KTM666

2011-09-04 06:43:00 UTC

Post missing.

KTM666

KTM666

2011-09-04 06:47:00 UTC

Now that's service

Questions from Newyork USA.....answers from Oz and UK

easygee

easygee

2011-09-04 23:46:00 UTC

Thanks guys for all your help.
Just won a cheap PCIII on Ebay so that should be just finding the right map then plug and play, right???

MrZ32

MrZ32

2011-09-05 01:35:00 UTC

Does it come with the o2 sensor block offs?

easygee

easygee

2011-09-05 04:21:00 UTC

it came with two O2 simulators

KTM666

KTM666

2011-09-05 04:30:00 UTC

Just fitting PC111 and map will not make that much difference.....removing secondarys will

MrZ32

MrZ32

2011-09-05 04:31:00 UTC

As well as o2 sensors

Lowrance

Lowrance

2011-09-06 23:31:00 UTC

motobox and O2 eliminators. The only real cure in my opinion.