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Old Feb 25, 2018 | 09:57 PM
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So, “lets say” I have a Rhinehart exhaust (no cat), with a SE heavy breather AF, and a Screamin eagle pro street tuner. I’ve done a few runs already with the tuner installed to program my 2018 street bob (107), although after tuning, I’m getting a code via tuning program that I have an “unstable idle”, and it now has that chugging sound.
anybody have any advice or has gone through this?
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Old Feb 25, 2018 | 10:05 PM
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So, “lets say” I have a Rhinehart exhaust (no cat), with a SE heavy breather AF, and a Screamin eagle pro street tuner. I’ve done a few runs already with the tuner installed to program my 2018 street bob (107), although after tuning, I’m getting a code via tuning program that I have an “unstable idle”, and it now has that chugging sound.
anybody have any advice or has gone through this?
thanks in advance!
So, “lets say”....is this a hypothetical or is this fact for your current condition? sounds awful specific so not sure why the quotes instead of just saying....I have xyz.....anyway, only advice I can think of is to not expect the SEPST EPA tuner to work well with non epa compliant emissions defeating exhaust..just asking for problems
 
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Does it hypothetically smell rich or is it hypothetically acting lean ?
Hypothetical chugging suggests rich.
 
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Does it hypothetically smell rich or is it hypothetically acting lean ?
Hypothetical chugging suggests rich.
It’s lean.
 
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Does it hypothetically smell rich or is it hypothetically acting lean ?
Hypothetical chugging suggests rich.
hypothetically of course 😂
 
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Hypothetically...did you start out by downloading their canned stage 1 map?
 
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Hypothetically...did you start out by downloading their canned stage 1 map?

Yes, the stage one for the M8 softail fxbb.
 
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So hypothetically you should clear your code/s and put you old mufflers back on till you "hypothetically" find a fix
 
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So hypothetically you should clear your code/s and put you old mufflers back on till you "hypothetically" find a fix
😂😂😂 thanks for the advice
 
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Hypothetical cheers shout out to you man.
 
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