Cobra Powerpro Fi2000
If you have the new one, you have to open the case with a thin blade of some sort and look in side. There should be a adjusting pod. There is a slot that you take a small screw driver or something like that and turn counter clockwise for less fuel and clock wise for more. It is easy to see. But if not, then you have the older version. But if you are not having any problems, just ride the hell out of it and enjoy.
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If you need some Harley parts, try Amazon too. I like Direct Harley Parts as well. I just got a complete Feuling cam chest kit gear drive from them. Paid less thru them then other parts dealers. And I have the Cobra installed on my bike. As a matter of fact, they just called to do a follow up on my system. I was having problems too rich of fuel at cruse and they said they were having these problems with some of the units. They sent me the new unit with no hassle. The new unit has an adjustable pod that you can lean or richen the fuel. As the tech said, most will leave it a lone but you have that option. I got mine adjusted just sightly lean and it seems to do pretty well. I did about 5 trips of 80 miles test to see what it will do and I was getting 33.5 mpg at first and now I am averaging around 38.9. Still seeing where the sweet spot is but other than that I am happy with the power performance. I am going to put in cams with gear drive and I am anxious to see how the Cobra will do. I know there are other units that will allow you have better control but at my age I just let the younger guys do that. I just want something that I do not have to mess with.
I've looked long and hard at all of the popular tuners out there, but this is for my EGC/COUCH WITH WHEELS and I'm not interested in playing around with maps and/or multiple adjustments. I bought this Cobra auto "fueler" because I want something fully automatic that can do a reasonable job cooling down my motor and give me a little more zip pulling away from the stoplight. If I wanted to squeeze every last horse and drop of performance out of a bike, it sure as hell wouldn't be my 2009 EGC.
Here, have a read, this is an excellent write-up dated 7/3/12 by Cycle World.
http://www.cycleworld.com/2012/07/03...i2000-powrpro/
And here, is how the new Fi2000 works according to Camron Bussard at Cobra USA:
“You already own a highly accurate dyno, your engine’s crankshaft. We think of crankshafts as turning smoothly, but in fact when a cylinder fires, it accelerates the crankshaft slightly. Every engine has some kind of torsional shock absorber between crank and gearbox, which is there to accommodate this slight variation in crank speed. With the application of modern high-speed electronics, we can access this information and time the rotation of the crank from one firing to the next, and analyze whether the next firing is slightly stronger or weaker than the previous one. The clever part is using the measurement of how hard a cylinder accelerates the crankshaft as a way to correct fuel mixture. If the mixture is a bit lean and our system adjusts it to be a bit richer at the next firing, more power will be produced and the piston will give the crank a slightly stronger kick. We can use this as a tool to move from whatever fuel mixture the engine is actually receiving towards a more efficient mixture. The next step is a way to time the rotations of the crank, so crank speed at one firing can be compared with crank speed at the next firing. Fortunately, bike manufacturers give us this info for free, as the time from the beginning of one fuel-injection squirt to the beginning of the next one, 720 crank degrees later. Yes, the engine’s other cylinder may be slowing the crank by being on its compression stroke, but all we need is comparative information. We also need to experiment with fuel mixture, just as race tuners or EFI programmers do. If we make the mixture a little leaner and the next crank cycle takes a little bit longer than before, we know we’re going the wrong way. This is just like what old-time race tuners did by changing carburetor jets and then looking at the bike’s quarter-mile ET or lap time.”
“The Fi2000 PowrPro conducts its fuel-mixture tuning by varying the mixture slightly. If the crank moves a tiny bit faster when the mixture leans out slightly, the PowrPro knows that’s the right direction and the system leans the mixture again, or vice versa. With a big twin cylinder engine turning 5,000 rpm, one cylinder is giving us 42 of these opportunities to tune fuel mixture every second. The result is that the Fi2000 PowrPro continuously and quickly drives fuel mixture to the value that gives best power. This process allows the system to adapt to any engine modifications you make.”
Read more: http://www.baggersmag.com/tech/1110_...#ixzz227HvQ4W4
Of note: At the 12th annual V-Twin Expo by Easyriders held in Cincinnati this past March, the new Fi2000 with CVT was awarded the 2012 Tech Product of the Year.
Last edited by Sweetbaboo; Aug 2, 2012 at 09:27 PM.
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Sweet, you can't use larger font? I mean, come on, we can barely read your posts.
Cobra is good at one thing for sure, hiring good marketing people! Thank you so much for posting thier marketing bullsh*t so everybody can see it. And in super humungous font! Grrr... Ha! They have tapped right into the great American laziness.
The truth is that nothing can replace a good tune with a map. But good luck, I read that they "never" have any problems....
Cobra is good at one thing for sure, hiring good marketing people! Thank you so much for posting thier marketing bullsh*t so everybody can see it. And in super humungous font! Grrr... Ha! They have tapped right into the great American laziness.
The truth is that nothing can replace a good tune with a map. But good luck, I read that they "never" have any problems....
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Sweet, you can't use larger font? I mean, come on, we can barely read your posts.
Cobra is good at one thing for sure, hiring good marketing people! Thank you so much for posting thier marketing bullsh*t so everybody can see it. And in super humungous font! Grrr... Ha! They have tapped right into the great American laziness.
The truth is that nothing can replace a good tune with a map. But good luck, I read that they "never" have any problems....
Cobra is good at one thing for sure, hiring good marketing people! Thank you so much for posting thier marketing bullsh*t so everybody can see it. And in super humungous font! Grrr... Ha! They have tapped right into the great American laziness.
The truth is that nothing can replace a good tune with a map. But good luck, I read that they "never" have any problems....
I don't know man, Cobra has a good rep and they've been around awhile. Some folks have had bad luck, but from what I've been reading in this and other forums a lot more are damn happy with these new CVTs. It's also gotten some good reviews in various magazines and won some tech awards of the year.
They have tapped into the great American laziness? That could describe about 80% of the bike products currently offered today. No, it's more like American ingenuity, hard work, and advancing technology. And, as far as I'm concerned, it's about efficiency; this unit will fit my application very well. And yes your right, a good dyno tune with a map is better, but not everyone wants or needs that.
Now, get your Marine *** home safely so you can go to Sturgis next year. Thanks for puttin' it out there for the rest of us. That's one vet to another by the way.
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