Kelly was supposed to be there for this little test session but he had family duties... So he had a different kind of fun.
He is much better at reporting this type of stuff but I will do what I can.
I had the TMXX dialed as good as I could with the RM needle and #5 slide. It ran good enough but had a bad stumble after down hills and would take a bit to clean out.
I have a spare TMXX so I set up the JD kit in the spare and swapped them after a quick warm up. The plug check after the warm up was showing a bit on the rich side.
I had a little 1 mile single track at a friends house that was perfect for testing, I knew right away if there was an improvement.
The JD settings in the instructions were for a 250/300 so after talking to Dave at JD I started with one clip richer on the needle. I noticed immediately it was crisper and ran better but a bit too lean on the bottom and it had a pretty good bog. So I dropped the clip 1 more and it ripped but still had a small bog if I got stupid with the throttle so I turned in the air screw a half turn and rode it. It runs much much better, feels like it comes on the pipe about 2krpm sooner and is really fun to ride. The bottom might still be a bit lean, I will fine tune that a bit more. I didn't do any long top end runs but the top end feels great, pulls long and hard.
Plug check after the ride was perfect, a nice cocoa brown color. Makes me a happy camper.
I will post some before and after videos when they upload, until then here is a mid ride video.
Here are the settings I ended up with at the end of the ride.
420 main
32.5 pilot
Jd red needle 4th clip down
#4 slide
air screw 1 turn out
I rode the APT and hope to try out the Lectron soon, the APT was electric smooth almost like fuel injection. I really hope the current setup with the JD kit will be consistent with temperature and elevation changes. If it doesn't I may have to pay the piper for a Lectron.
Later,