It would be good if he popped in and explained to all us potential customers collectively whats involved, pro's ,cons, cost, the technicals of the process ? I'm sure there would be alot of interested customers on here, he could tell the story once then, instead of hundreds of separate inquiries.
I can reply on behalf of Marlin that we are talking about raising the rpm limiters and removing the top speed limiter here. Without going in to details as a process its very simple: the software from ecu is downloaded to a computer (if needed), new limiters are written on it and then the reprogrammed code is flashed back to ecu. There is a couple of dozen various limiter values that are changed in the process, other than that the ecu remains as it is.
The pros on this e.g. are:
- no add on boxes to bike causing electricity faults
- the gear display continues to work
- any rpr limiter can be set (within reasonable limits)
- possibility to choose not to use soft limiters (particularly for turbos and nitrous)
- possiblity to choose if ign or fuel or both should be used
Anyway basically you just say: "set my limiter to 12000 hard limit only and remove my top speed limiter" and thats what most of us want.
For me (who is biased) its difficult to find any cons in this process, exept a possiblity for an operator error when programming - but that will be unlikely.
Some day this will be avail for a wider audience as a diy after gettings some hardware and software, but in the meanwhile Marlin is your best contact for this service as
Marlin is the first person ever who has flashed a gen2 ecu.Here is what numbers will be changed (amongst some other things).
