Retired TSgt
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Yes it is all the biggest Grift of all times.
Booster Plug Review
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PhilsTTR
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Depends how much you are paying for your hydrocarbons. Average price for E10 on the eastern side of the Atlantic is around 1.48GBP/2.40CAD per litre, based on that price E0 would be about 1.80GBP/2.92CAD per litre. Although....late last year E10 was a fair bit more than that!!
JAB143
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I know I’m jumping in late. . .I have a Booster Plug and it does make a big difference. Not perfect but no long thinking about lurch avoidance. I will say I got the same effect by putting the bike in Rain Mode in city stop and go traffic. I don’t know what impact it has keeping the bike set to rain. . .but it did help a lot in the city before I got the Booster Plug. . .now I don’t think about it anymore.
That makes sense . What ever works for you is good . Be interesting to know which WC Bonnevilles had the stalling issue safety updated map . If yours had it that would be a natural IMO and keep the plug too .
I don't know what a booster plug is, but this is lugging the engine, accelerating from very low revs. Don't know about modern bikes, but on classic Triumphs it's risking holing a piston, or worse.
I thought clutch-slipping was normal way to ride.
Sorry , I was in such a rush to spew some of boundless garbage that I missed your lunching comment . The decat moved the lurch point down from 2000 rpm to 1500 on my TTR , much smoother to sneak around town , runs cooler , 5% more power and IMO sounds better . I got the Motone unit because of it’s build quality , it’s prettier too and it’s made in the UK where my ancestors came from .
There’s a lot of WC Bonnevilles out there with just a booster plug and a decat installed . It’s probably the best performance improvement for the buck available anywhere..
No it’s not lugging the engine . It’s more like when your slowing up in first gear for a stop sign and when you get down to1800 rpm it gets into the chain snatching thingy and you must pull in the clutch or it stalls or does the hebegeebees . Lugging of course , accelerating up a hill in high gear , at 2500 rpm , wide open throttle , two up . Also wears piston skirts leading to that slapping noise even fractures . Many modern pistons for all intents and purpose have no skirts at all , just big aluminum hockey pucks with rings around the edge and probably a wrist pin underneath still . Even Chevrolet V8’s suffer the malady as they search for better fleet average fuel economy . Do wonder how much energy it took the manufacturer to deliver and install the new engine in my , just a few months old , car years ago .
Open class motocross bikes must use such pistons to produce their 60 or so hp from 450cc’s . Their engine life is measured in hours instead of miles . No amount of lugging avoidance can save them .
Ok. Don't get that on my 51 year old engine. Guess things have gone backwards engineering-wise since Edward Turner passed. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Get 60mpg too, in this 750cc.
OP did state though...
That's lugging engine, I'd say. Not extremely as in two up, up hill, fast, hard acceleration. But there's a suggestion there of taking off at idle revs, might just need some care not to overdo it.
I'd think slipping clutch is normal way to do this low speed riding.
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If you go back to the beginning of this thread and read forward you will know a lot about a power booster . It basically just tricks the ECU into thinking it’s colder outside and richens the mixture .These new bikes are are super lean , emission
standards , and love it when some one gives them more fuel . In fact they are so happy that they just work much better. Happy wife / happy life .
