Has anyone out there put a TRE on their '08 model and did it make a significant difference? Right now I'm leaning towards returning the TRE when it arrives.
You read right, Sharkey. At the GPS, there are two defaults you can exploit. The one [tre] you are thinking to use will cause a limp mode. You may think you feel some grunt, but it might sign off at the higher rpms but open the subthrottles sooner.
The '08 is just about subless as far as a low end lag or hesitation to move quick. The '06 was and is one fast bike. So, the factory was smart to leave the subs lag with this type of performance which as you know is the world's most powerful and it wasn't that powerful if everyone was pulling their 'flies' to bring the '08 response back to some sort of safe riding in any gear.
If you owned an '06, it was like riding a moped at full tilt on the bottom. She was just smooth and linear slow, moving up in speed to the world's fastest. This is where more early model 14 owners were really upset with the low grandma reaction at the throttle.
Kawi listened and the following revision is what you are riding. The bike receives a constant tweak design wise as you were pointing out for a more refined engine family. Subtle improvements that make them better than the previous year, most times.
Now, we are up to your bike and this tre mod. What you have been reading is correct. The tre will more limp the performance. Yes, it will follow the limp mode in the shop manual and point out that you are safe to ride the bike, because they detuned what needs to be a complete un-interrupted analog system.
So, yes, you will feel a change as if to follow what the factory wrote the sub to do when the analog is out of the loop say. So, say you can exploit the other wire not to raise the subs but can limp the GPS another way. Because the gear and sub work as a unit together, either one can fail or lose a connection and set the limp.
Basically, if install this tre on your bike, you will lag the subs where they do not open, you are worse off than an '06 throttle response because the subs stay closed basically. That is why the units take on two numbers for the GPS. One lags the sub, so you remove the flies, which in your case you do not need to remove the subs. You do not use that tre with the sub plates in. So, you COULD return the unit for that one event that the subs rise and use the other one.
Again, Ivan will just move a wire in the clip, call it another name and this exploits either wire like I said. So, you will hold the same unit from Ivan but the wire in the clip will be switched. You could do the same by switching the wire on the GPS side and have the other tre... Using this as one of 3 wire variables that will cause the same effect. Kind of easier for you to follow on wire if one wire can cause the limp to lag at the bottom or cause the limp to lag at the top.
Either way, you set the bike in limp... What the @$^%* are you thinking? If you had this on the fly like you could toggle back and forth, you can feel the lag set in and then disappear back to performance. The Busa had the same effect back when that bike first came out in 1999. So, for 10 years, Ivan has been putting you in limp mode for $70.
I keep repeating what this does, but the public still goes out and limps their ride. One day, I was full tilt tre'd and rode thru a bunch of H-D rides on PCH. On the way back, I undid the limp to feel the difference. Yes, I nailed the other two H-D riders seeing me come up fast on them as I took care of the others in the back. So the lead waved me on and I limped thru a sweeper.
But, on the way back, I could tell that limp would have lagged me out of the corner with that limp effect, where I was in thought both reading the tail light lens and how happy I was to be out of limp to rattle this driver that had on right foot. Bottom line..... Stay Stock? Your call.
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