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With all due respect, one instance of too much gasoline washing the cylinders clean of oil does not make a trend. Have not other owners of V7s (and other Moto Guzzis) had success with this cheap and easy option?I guess I am just frustrated with the negativity associated with the topic of modifications. In the Triumph Modern Classics world, modifications are cheap and easy and, perhaps more importantly, encouraged. Here, they are poo-pooed. Why is that? Are very few Moto Guzzi owners willing to modify their bikes?
Not to turn this thread into a mods thread (as we've had PLENTY of those), but I dare say some folks have witnessed some poor running habits from certain mods and NOT WITNESSED the good mods others have done. This may be because they have a job as a FIXER so they are witness to the negative and rarely to the positive. I look at mods as a double edged sword. If you get it right it can be very rewarding, if not, well...Things aren't always right from the factory either as most of us can attest.
I would take that bet. Triumph itself makes Arrow pipes and silencers an approved option and even includes an ECU re-map as part of the deal so the bike will run as well after the modification as it did before. (My Thruxton certainly runs just as well, despite using freer-flowing British Customs "silencers" instead of Arrow cans.)I dare say some people are not looking for more power when they install an after-market can. They are looking for something that sounds better to them.But I come back to this: why not encourage people to experiment with their bikes? So what if they screw it up? It's a bike! It can be fixed.
Take off all the horrible shit you've put on it and it will run nicely. None of the horrible shit will make it any faster and you yourself have found that it was a waste of money that made your bike run like crap.
Something is wrong then. Once mine gets past the initial minute or two of running it almost NEVER stalls (maybe it has stalled once or twice in almost 8,000 miles, and those times it was probably something stupid I did).
What Pete and others are trying to say is that in this application spending money for different air filter and mufflers produces no benefit in terms of power and will usually make the bike run worse than stock. I had my ECU dyno tuned for a totally stock bike. That did not make much, if any, difference in power output. All I got was a smoother running bike. One can make all sorts of changes to the V7 engine but, unless you are willing to spend lots and lots of money, you are still riding a 40 rwhp machine. If you really want a better riding experience, upgrade the suspension.Peter Y.
ok, does anybody have an answer for my question? ;D
Why? People are bending over backwards to give him advice and his attitude is to troll! Bollocks!Pete
Last week we had a single throttle body V7 in for service. It had the stock air cleaner. He added Agostini stainless larger diameter head pipes and a pair of Agostini Titanium mufflers. The system does still have a crossover pipe. I expected this bike to loose everything on the bottom end but this was not the case. The bike took a long time to warm up but ran fine everywhere once warm and this is without the DB killer. Now I am in no way saying Pete is wrong about his assertion, the bike did not really run better but did not seem to be hurt by the pipe. It may be unique to this pipe combination. I am unsure if the mapping in the US is any different than European mapping.The pipe was loud but very deep in tone.I am not saying you or anyone should run this bike on the street, just posting our experience.
Walt, as I've said he can do anything he likes with his bike but if it's poor running pre-dated the addition of the aftermarket stuff, which I see as un-necessary and potentially damaging but nobody is forced to agree with me, then surely the best thing to do would be get the poor little thing to run RIGHT in stock trim rather than throwing a load of crap on it and then asking for a 'Cheap' solution for a self made problem?
dear folks, sorry if i pissed you off. its probably the language barreier also. to make it clear: the bike runs lean with serial exhaust and airfilter, this has not changed when i put on the k+n and the new exhaust. i have put in the serial air-filter yesterday and still it does not run smoothly on the first kilometers. thats why i asked for help here. ill check valve clearance on the weekend. sorry, running the standing bike a few minutes to warm up in the morning is clearly no option, as i live in the old city of vienna with lots of houses and churches around and dont want to wake up everybody here at 7 o clock.
Greetings harryzet, and welcome to the forum, I re-read through the suggestions and found nowhere that you might leave the "cold start lever" partially on for the first kilometer or less to see if the enrichment would help the stalling. Although it's not a smallblock I have to do this on myV11 some mornings until I get out to the highway. By trying this it may lead to a better diagnosis for mapping or mechanical adjustments. Keep us posted. :bike
I like to fiddle with my bikes, too. Why leave well enough alone? The world would not be the same without adventurers and explorers...Best of luck to you!
dear allgreetings from austria :-)
bike runs lean with serial exhaust and airfilter, this has not changed when i put on the k+n and the new exhaust. i have put in the serial air-filter yesterday and still it does not run smoothly on the first kilometers. thats why i asked for help here.
