[megabuddys]

Monday I went in for some Tuning and baseline numbers before I tear the engine apart this winter.

First off, I had my Megabuddys 2.0 Slip on and an opened up airbox with K & N filter for engine

mods, BEFORE I put the Gman controller on.
I put the controller on and didn't notice any difference in power, the only thing I liked was less

popping on deceleration. The slip on Muffler is NOT Straight through, it does have a Winged

baffle in it that I made. Opening it up might have helped a couple HP's but its not worth the

added noise IMO.

I had to wait a month just to get in for the Dyno session.

Third Warm up pull it did 80hp/91 torque BEFORE messing with the controller. After repeated

heat cycles, etc, the HP never changed over 2 hp. Thats interesting, as we messed with the

Programmer quite a bit.

We found out where the Gman comes on/controls fuel.
Out of the Box the GMAN is a bit RICH. I live just a couple hundred feet above Sea level BTW.

Green mode is cruise/idle
YELLOW mode functions between 3800 - 5200 RPM's EVEN at WOT
RED mode controls 5200 rpms up
You can see it on the A/F Graph on where they dip from our changes.

We had to bring the Settings in the Yellow and Red mode all the way down to 1 to clean up the A/F

ratio to where we wanted it. We wanted to get the WOT Ratio a bit higher, but we had the

programmer at its lowers possible setting.
The regular cruise A/F ratio was a bit rich, but tuning the Green mode down just made it pop and

bang like crazy. The programmer isnt perfect, but it does work. My guess is most people are

overfueling with theirs.

I though the Torque curve of the Bike was Impressive, and the HP Curve tells you how much this

engine likes the higher RPM range. I though the controller was pretty forgiving for messing with

it, as in not affecting over all power output much. I would have liked to have tested mine with

out the programmer to see the A/F ratios. The only benefit I gained from the controller was to

richen up the cruise for less popping.

Where did that 110hp 131/tq come from? NITROUS!!! Enjoy.

A/F Graph

 

[snowman68]

Where in mn do you live? New Ulm is only 1.5-2 hours away.... Pretty good numbers tho it would be nice if could get a little closer to the NOS numbers without the NOS but still impressive for a medium sized v-twin

 

[saclean]

Very impressive numbers for a fairly stock motor. 8)

 

[snowman68]

I had just read on a mean streak forum that they don't think the 1600 could get over 70 hp with the intake, exhaust, and tuner.... Yamaha the little engine that could

 

[SmokenJoe]

Excellent write up.
In reality, the controller did not do much other than remove the decel backfire. This is what I had noticed when I had the Techclusion controller on my VTX. My settings were 0-0-0-4.

 

[mn stryker]

New Ulm? I grew up and lived there until I was 20!! Small world.

 

[sdsting]

I had just read on a mean streak forum that they don't think the 1600 could get over 70 hp with the intake, exhaust, and tuner.... Yamaha the little engine that could

Snowman that other forum you are talking about, you can show them this dyno results where I got 77hp with those mods..
http://www.yamahastarstryker.com/index.php/topic,3573.msg56358.html#msg56358

 

[snowman68]

I don't belong to it, I was just looking for hp & torque numbers to compare my Stryker to my bro's mean streak.... We haven't had the chance to really run them side by side. I was just seeing how bad the little 1300 was being out powered by the 1600.... I just seen in another write up by online mag it's suppose to be 73 hp & 94 ftlb torque stock.... I'm guessing Kawasaki might be inflating the numbers a little cause a guy on there had his dynoed out at 60 hp & 90 ft lb

 

[pry3abet]

Monday I went in for some Tuning and baseline numbers before I tear the engine apart this winter.

First off, I had my Megabuddys 2.0 Slip on and an opened up airbox with K & N filter for engine

mods, BEFORE I put the Gman controller on.
I put the controller on and didn't notice any difference in power, the only thing I liked was less

popping on deceleration.


I am also running the meggabuddy and opened up my air box and just put the tunner on this morning....question is, what are the setting that you have the bully set at now after the dyno? I have been riding all day messing around with it. Also, did you mess with the last 4 settings all? the yellow/blue, red/blue or whatever they are. I believe mine are stock at 4

 

[megabuddys]

Green 3,
Yellow 1
Red 1,
Didn't mess with the other settings, as there was no need to.

 

[megabuddys]

I wouldn't worry about the Kawi Mean Streaks too much, they pull the wheels up, so you can get them on the launch hard core. I raced a 1500 one and beat it by quite a long shot. Take them from a dig, and Keep the RPMs up high. If you roll into it in first gear, rev it and dump it. Don't do any roll ons with out revving the piss out of it. Our motors like the R's

I will say, after driving a mean streak, I thought the Transmission was buttery smooth. Our Strykers are a little notchy feeling.

 

[snowman68]

Lol thats no SH!t swear at times you gotta look for parts under it when you drop it into 1st..... But I just H-D bagger sound like that in every gear..... That's what 25,000 gets you a bike that announces every gear change

 

[johnboy]

Green 3,
Yellow 1
Red 1,
Didn't mess with the other settings, as there was no need to.

This is what I run on mine with v&h pipes and lachopper intake. Runs smooth with very little decel popping.

 

[BOOLSHOT]

Green 3,
Yellow 1
Red 1,
Didn't mess with the other settings, as there was no need to.

Nice to see a test on the dyno for the G man. I was afraid of running too lean, but if you had the air/fuel mixtures ok on 3/1/1 then I will give it a shot. Might save me some fuel too. Thank you.

 

[onebadstryker]

Green 3,
Yellow 1
Red 1,
Didn't mess with the other settings, as there was no need to.

Nice to see a test on the dyno for the G man. I was afraid of running too lean, but if you had the air/fuel mixtures ok on 3/1/1 then I will give it a shot. Might save me some fuel too. Thank you.

I wonder if these settings would work for us non above sea level folks. :-[

 

[bigboi18184]

Green 3,
Yellow 1
Red 1,
Didn't mess with the other settings, as there was no need to.

Nice to see a test on the dyno for the G man. I was afraid of running too lean, but if you had the air/fuel mixtures ok on 3/1/1 then I will give it a shot. Might save me some fuel too. Thank you.

I wonder if these settings would work for us non above sea level folks. :-[

Isn't New Orleans and death valley the only places in the US under sea level and 0 sea level are in bodies of water...

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_elevation

 

[toby]

Green 3,
Yellow 1
Red 1,
Didn't mess with the other settings, as there was no need to.

Nice to see a test on the dyno for the G man. I was afraid of running too lean, but if you had the air/fuel mixtures ok on 3/1/1 then I will give it a shot. Might save me some fuel too. Thank you.

I wonder if these settings would work for us non above sea level folks. :-[

Isn't New Orleans and death valley the only places in the US under sea level and 0 sea level are in bodies of water...

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_elevation

.
There is a lot of places in north America below sea level.

North America
Sea level sign (2/3 of the way up the cliff face) above Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, USA

Death Valley
Badwater, Death Valley, USA [−86 m (−282 ft)] lowest land in North America
Furnace Creek Airport (L06), Death Valley, USA [−64 m (−210 ft)]
Salton Sink, USA [−66 m (−217 ft)]
Bombay Beach, California, USA [−69 m (−226 ft)]
Salton Sea Beach, California, USA [−67 m (−220 ft)]
Desert Shores, California, USA [−61 m (−200 ft)]
Calipatria, California, USA [−56 m (−184 ft)]
Westmorland, California, USA [−48 m (−157 ft)]
Niland, California, USA [−43 m (−141 ft)]
Salton City, California, USA [−38 m (−125 ft)]
Brawley, California, USA [−37 m (−121 ft)]
Thermal, California, USA [−37 m (−121 ft)]
Coachella, California, USA [−22 m (−72 ft)]
Imperial, California, USA [−18 m (−59 ft)]
Seeley, California, USA [−13 m (−43 ft)]
El Centro, California, USA [−12 m (−39 ft)]
Indio, California, USA [−6 m (−20 ft)]
Heber, California, USA [−5 m (−16 ft)]
Holtville, California, USA [−3 m (−10 ft)]
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA [−2 m (−7 ft)]
Laguna Salada, Mexico [−10 m (−33 ft)]
Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic [−46 m (−151 ft)]

 

[snowman68]

I do have a question has anyone ran their bike on a dyno with the cobra auto tune? I don't remember seeing anyone doing it.

 

[Ben-Rod]

Don't have the instructions handy so a quick question. I am running 3 green, 1 yellow, 1 red...

I want to richen it up just a tad, what should I change?


Ben

 

[chris]

what part do you want to richen up? the green light is for your cruise/ idle, the yellow is your acceleration, and red is full throttle adding moving each to the right ( higher number) richens it out