TPS Adjustment
04-28-2010, 07:22 PM
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Yeah, you definitely got the pin under both of the tabs on accident. I'm not positive about the spring positioning as you mentioned. Mine went from 500 ohms to around 1500 ohms at WOT. I would think as long as you can get those readings, you should be good.
04-28-2010, 08:16 PM
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It's difficult to explain things when i never had my tps fly apart. I know this though and you might mess with it to see if you have it together correctly. If you stand on the left side of the bike with your carbs pulled up a little, you can look down at the tab as you put the bottom of the tps up against the carb and see that the tab is heading for the space between the two prongs. Then you hold the tps up against the carb and turn it counterclockwise and let the pressure off a little and it should spring back gently. then you know you have the tab between the prongs. Now turn it clockwise til you have the holes on the mounting plate centered in the oval slot on the tps. This is where mine was standard. or you might be able to see outline on the mounting plate of where yours was set OEM. Either way, when the hole is near the center of the TPS mounting slot and this should read about 800-900ohms. If it does, you know two things: you have it back together correctly and that if you move it counterclockwise it will read lower. Then you will probably need to bend the left tab a little to get it back far enough to 490 ohm. Hope you can understand what i'm trying to describe.
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03-23-2011, 07:20 AM
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I believe that I read somewhere that the TPS was spec'd at 500 by Honda, but for whatever emissions code they knowingly have the adjustment set high. Notice no one has the TPS below 500, or really even that close to it (so it's not just the factory being sloppy). I'd guess they designed it to be at 500, but then put it at 800 and stuck some tamper resistant heads on there to make some government happy.
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
03-23-2011, 07:27 AM
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I believe that I read somewhere that the TPS was spec'd at 500 by Honda, but for whatever emissions code they knowingly have the adjustment set high. Notice no one has the TPS below 500, or really even that close to it (so it's not just the factory being sloppy). I'd guess they designed it to be at 500, but then put it at 800 and stuck some tamper resistant heads on there to make some government happy.
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
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I believe that I read somewhere that the TPS was spec'd at 500 by Honda, but for whatever emissions code they knowingly have the adjustment set high. Notice no one has the TPS below 500, or really even that close to it (so it's not just the factory being sloppy). I'd guess they designed it to be at 500, but then put it at 800 and stuck some tamper resistant heads on there to make some government happy.
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
03-23-2011, 09:48 AM
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I believe that I read somewhere that the TPS was spec'd at 500 by Honda, but for whatever emissions code they knowingly have the adjustment set high. Notice no one has the TPS below 500, or really even that close to it (so it's not just the factory being sloppy). I'd guess they designed it to be at 500, but then put it at 800 and stuck some tamper resistant heads on there to make some government happy.
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
Remember too, this mod only adjusts the smoothness of the ignition timing at idle- after you get into the rpm's you won't notice any real difference...
So 500 ohms is the spec for power. I have heard of one person claiming 430ohms was a better set up, but I don't have any (or seen any) numbers to back the claim up.
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