Being as how we stopped/ camped at various points along the trip the old airhead was treated to increasingly higher altitudes and hence lower ambiant map readings for start up "snap shot".
Here's the deal, this is an initial post just to describe some findings and will be followed up more in depth with my trip "msq" etc.
Equally, I haven't done much for proving the "barometric corrrection" settings that I had adopted - living and riding pretty much @ sea level most of the time. Those settings were based on extensive forum searches, manual review, and what I found to be heated debate on what worked, and what should work.
Some of the locations we covered or stayed at were up and over 10,000ft and I've tuned at sea level. Consequently, what started to manifest was increasingly leaner fueling (although my EGO enabled corrections alowed the problem to mask up to about 4000ft I believe). Tough to handle twisties and steep grades when you're slipping towards 17 or 18 to 1
Eventually the coin dropped and I knew what was happening, just how to deal with when many thousand miles from home and no access to a lap top was the question.
Much to the perplexity of my riding mates however, each time I did a restart I pulled the map sensor hose and would blow into it while a helper keyed on ignition. Not quite sure what reading this would be developing but pretty much satisfied my MS that we were at sea level and there were no alterations to the fueling and proper operation.
I am hoping to properly tune this and will be following with some further material.
Other's experiences or observations will be welcomed.
Lorne.
- Force of habit, my bad. Obviously been a while and a full review in order.