Ok well I finally had to do it, I had to post here! That being said there are a few reasons for doing so. First off after reading posts on all kind of subjects over the last year sense I purchased my ZX14, I have been able to find every answer I have had until now. Second, reading the information posted here on the ZX-14 Ninja Forums site from it's members shows a great deal of knowledge is among it's members aside of the occasional sword play! So, my story.
I now own, as of last year, a 2009 ZX-14 SE. It was purchase with 6200 miles and included Two Brothers full M2 exhaust, K&N filter and a few other goodies. The first week I owned her, she was in more pieces than satellites orbiting our great planet! I went over everything (did I mention yet I'm Anal) until I was satisfied that she would be ready and safe for high speeds. My plans are to tune her to better than factory as I'm never satisfied leaving things stock. I purchased a PCV as I noted the SS exhaust was discolored from head to can and after inspection of the spark plugs, confirmed my suspicion she was running a bit lean. Now together and on the road after some testing and fairly easily finding the speed limiter, I knew it was time to do something about that! I purchased a second ECU so that one could be flashed leaving my original one in stock form for "just in case" reasons. Early on before finding the "Roman's Flash" blog info, I had sent my ECU to another, I believe, reputable company (not mentioning any names yet) as I also read some people after flashing an ECU have locked them so only "they" can make any changes in the future. This was not acceptable to me and made me feel as if my ECU from that point was being held hostage! I received the ECU back with the std changes: +4 timing, secondary's, +500RPM rev limiter, and what I wanted all along, no speed limiter! Now back to them speed runs! Well, bottom end is much stronger, almost wild yet smooth however the bike has a bit more difficulty pulling top end gearing. How do I know? Well I use a data logger that records speed vs distance vs time vs G's. My data shows the stock ECU took longer to get to 140MPH but after that was quicker to top end. The flashed ECU gets to 140 quicker but takes longer from that point and struggles to top out at speeds where the stock ECU would get to and hit the speed limiter even in 5th gear. Checking plugs again today I find shes lean again. Looking deep down on the plugs ceramic there is no color at all where plugs show on WOT. Thinking about this, I did not make any changes to the fuel table after the flash so I added 8 points on the power commander in the 100% columns from 7000RPM up. I also feel from my many years of drag racing that the timing may be a bit too high at those RPM's. I always found retarding timing made more top end thus more MPH. So today I contacted Woolich with some questions as to timing maps and his flashing tool. What I don't know is if he or anyone will have a stock ignition map for my zx-14 for me to compare against the flashed one I have and if not, if I would need to purchase another "Key" just to read my stock ECU for comparison. Already purchased is a power Commander auto tune to go along with Akrapovic exhaust arriving next week as I don't care for the Two Brothers system, it's performance is weaker and much to loud. So if anyone has a factory ignition map and any other ideas, let me know. Thanks in advance for reading this, my first novel!