Auspanglish

This post just will not shrivel up and crawl away...

There are no additional sensors. Essentially what you're suggesting is what I'm doing, except that I have Aussie headlight switch and indicator hardware which needs some tweaks to the front harness. Believe me if I could just plug an '06 main harness into an '02 front harness I'd freakin' do it, but the other member (CBR600F4i) who has already done this mod said that's not possible. Just for posterity's sake (and because I'm looking for some info on here regarding Euro - US CDI compatability, for a buddy), I plugged my '03 front harness directly into an '07 harness with no compatability worries whatsoever (although the '03 front harness DOES have the crappy yellow connector... but they are compatable)... just sayin' in case anyone ever has to consider doing it.

Ground control to Major Tom...

OK so I recently grafted my 03 chassis onto an 07 VTECker 6th gen... now I found one of my yellow stator wires all crispy and bubbly yesterday, from overheating... I had already elminated the OEM connctor and used a screw-down connector block... well actually a buddy did the work in my absence and I think maybe one of the wires wasn't screwed in well... at least I'm hoping that's all that's wrong cause my 03er already fried 2 stators in its 95,000 km lifespan. Anyway... this old new inbred summer-mix frankenbike has the 07 main and rear harness and the old 03 front subharness with the shitey yellow ground connector removed and replaced with a profesional soldering job... although during the chassis-grafting procedure we found some browning of the Green ground wires around the soldering job and decided to excise and heal it all up... reinforced to an alternative grounding point on the chassis with an extra nice'n'thick gauge wire. So I'm thinking maybe it's time to get a new front subharness... but I'm not sure which one I need as the CDI is from a US 2007 VFR, but the optics and relays and such on the front cowling bracket, as well as indicator lamps are from the old 03 model... so maybe the connectors for the lamps won't be the same... I know they changed the housings from 02-05 to 06-10... Whatchall reckon??

Powerlet is about to launch a USB unit to plug directly into their socket, I implored them to make one and they replied they would get onto it. I'll post up the part reference number in a mo: Edit, ref no is PAC-069, or will be as soon as it's out. PS I do not work for Powerlet

So... wouldn't 6th gen ECU mean VTEC mapping for an engine with no VTEC hardware...???

Jeez Phantom... chronic procrastination is one thing... but actually seriously injuring yourself in order to have an excuse is completely another dimensión!!!! :unsure: I have 5 slipped discs so I can say "back pain"!!! And it really sucks the pus!!! ... well now you've gone and buggered it... I was enjoying this... neverending stooooooooooryyyyyyyyy... but you've just gone too far this time mate!! No seriously, this thread is like those books you used to get where you could choose between 2 or 3 different courses at the foot of the page. :beer: Get well..

Air filters are just to keep intake noise down? Now that IS funny!! Love to see how the air intake system deals with Christmas beetles for example.. and we could then assume that Marc Marquez' motogp bike doesn't use an air filter... I'll be removing my K&N then 'cause I actually dig that intake sound.. reminds me of a supercharged motor!!

With the cat con up to temp and a stock bike, pair activated... at idle, my 6.5 gen emits 0.05 CO2... the permisible level is 0.5... my catless 5th gen ('98) gives out 2.5... that's a 50000% difference... my buddy's 6th gen with Pair and Flapper disabled and O2 sensors switched over (apparently installed switched around at the factory), runs smooth but it is yet to bee seen that his emissions will pass roadworthy restrictions. Sorry I know it's off topic... this thread is about why your reed valve casing melted, I guess we should leave the discussion regarding PAIR and such for the designated threads. I think the question is whether or not it is not adviseable to remove the reed valves as regards the risk of getting cross-over leaking between cylinders, just as Coderighter is pointing out... thinking out loud, cylinder 1 and 3 in one bank and 2 and 4 in the other, do not have their exhaust ports open simultaneously... so exhaust from cylinder 1 could hang out in the section common to both cylinders upstream of the reed valve (one reed valve for both cylinders right?)... but I think you need not be concerned CR, as the exhaust port of the other cylinder would be closed, would it not? Not posible for those gases lingering in the comunal zone to enter the other cylinder, they will get forced through the reed valve when the other exhaust port opens and new emissions issue forth... neither do the cylinders in the one common cylinder bank fire one immediately after the other... also if I understand correctly and as an estension of the aforementioned, the reed valve doesn't separate one exhaust port from the other, but there is a "meeting of the ways" just prior to reaching the valve. Right? Yet, if as Bassie sates, your block off plate has a leak, this would allow even fresher 02 on top of the reed valve... causing combustion on the upper side of the reed valve (when PAIR allows this to take place from underneath the reed valve)... this would definitely deform the rubber part as it's not designed for the combustion to come down from on top, but up from below... Don't know if I'm making myself clear or not.

CO2 mafia crap!! That's funny chit!!

I have always adjusted the idle to 1400 on all 3 VFR800s I have had.. remember, the manual says 1200+/-100.. so I'm only a smidgen over that spec.. The weak charging system on these bikes also benefits from this slight increase, compensating for low charge at idle when fan comes on. I must say though, my recent substitution of the OEM exhaust for Laser Extremes really backed the engine braking off considerably, to the point where I have had to conscientiously adjust my braking habits to avoid blowing corner entry.. had a few heart in mouth experiences at first.