How-To Video: Burn a Race Map onto Stock ECM ('03-'07)

[BuellGaza]

The video walk-through is very detailed and explains everything you need to load a race map. I did it last weekend. Haven't been able to ride much since, cold weathers here :/
Good job Sirius

 

[zilchsniper]

I would love to do this to my buell. can anyone tell me how to get ahold of a cable and the program. or if you live close enough to show me. possibly let me use your setup. I live in around Seattle, Wa. thanks
Johnathan

 

[Stevenc150]

You can order a cable off of Xoptiinside.com. The program you can find on BuellMods.com - "Downloads" section.

 

[BuellGaza]

Once you get the bike connected and communicating with ecmspy the rest is easy. Just watch the video beforehand and follow step by step, you'll have a race map in no time.

 

[strawberrys]

All,
Old copy of ECMSPY?
Download does not seem to be working right.
Straw

 

[Sirius815]

I was using version 1.12.26..what's the newest one?

 

[Joeh]

I did this a few weeks ago for my 2007 xb12x with drummer and K&N. Bike runs great But I can tell a little data logging for me is in order.

 

[YJBoomer]

Sirius, I have question. When I go to pull stock and the race in notepad my does come up like your did. It just comes up like a text. Just the same when you fisrt download. Am I doing something wrong or do I need some kind upgrade to computer?

 

[Sirius815]

Notepad is available on ANY windows computer (maybe with the exception of 3.x) so there shouldn't be any issues. If you'd like, you can send me some screen shots and I can help you about better. I'll message you my email.

 

[BuellGaza]

Boomer, are you sure you are trying to actually open the stock and race Maps and not the eeprom files? The maps have a ".MSQ" extension and you have to open those files in notepad. Not the files with the .txt extensions.
When you download the race maps from the website first what you get is an EEPROM, you have to open that in ECMSpy first and save the "racemap.MSQ" file from it before you can transfer the values and modify your own map.
It should work fine if you're following the video step by step and going to the proper folders/files.

 

[Sirius815]

Thanks Gaza - I was at work and couldn't full up the exact steps and was also a little confused.

 

[BuellGaza]

Another thing to keep in mind is this:
When I did this on my Win7 laptop ECMSpy automatically saves files in its own directory and the eeprom/kennfeld folders. When I would navigate to those locations I couldn't find/access the actual files. I guess the Win7/ECMSpy combo doesn't allow access to whatever files are located in those folders. I had to save them in a different folder in order for me to find them and open them in notepad...
Let me know if this doesn't make any sense and I'll try to explain better.

 

[Sirius815]

Did you run ECMSpy as an "administrator"? Right click on the ECMSpy icon and click on "Run as administrator" and that should do the trick. This is a MUST when you start data logging as well.

 

[BuellGaza]

I don't believe I did... Well, I ended up saving the files in a different location and went fine from there. Thanks for the tip though

 

[djohnk]

I just did this to my 2007 XB12X with 34K (I recently purchased it used, and love the bike). The video worked great!! I was having a lot of low end popping and backfiring, the new race map got rid of all of it when I just did a short test ride.

Here are a couple of notes on problems which diverted me from the video directions (I was using Windows 7):

1) Be careful when saving the modified fuel maps on notepad. Notepad will save the file as "file.msq.txt" not "file.msq" if you are not careful. If you have your computer set to hide extensions (which it will be by default) you won't see the ".txt" on the end of the file. (It happened to me, and luckily I know enough about computers to have noticed it.) If you don't want Windows to hide the extensions, right click your mouse on the start button on the lower left of your screen, then click on "open windows explorer", then click on "organize", then go to "folder and search options", then select the "view" tab, and finally uncheck the little box beside "hide extensions for known file types".

2) When following the video directions in Windows 7, I thought I was saving the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\EcmSpy\eprom and C:\Program Files (x86)\EcmSpy\kennfeld, but Windows 7 was really saving them into a really weird hidden folder. I was extremely confused by this, because when I tried to open them in notepad they weren't in the folders. If you have the same problem you should probably save the files to your desktop instead of the ecmspy folders. I think Windows 7 doesn't like you to save data files into program folders, so it can cause little problems like that.

Anyway, I hope that wasn't too confusing to a novice computer user. My intent is to help anyone who might have encountered the same problems that I did.

 

[Jezzee]

This forum is so helpful [up]

 

[Sirius815]

djohnk - Sorry about the extension mix-up. I HATE it when windows hides the extensions, so by default they are off on my computer. Good catch.

Also - it's a good thing to run ECMSPY as an administrator (right click on icon).

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[maddog187d2]

Absolutely awesome! I hve a 05 xb12r with a jardine pipe and kn filter and resently purchased the ecmspy cable and downloads, and thanks to this awesome forum and with members help I have reset my tps and last weekend installed the race maps on my bike using the awesome video provided. Now my bike hardly pops and runs soooooooooo much smoother and has some kick ass power! thanks again to this one of a kind site!!!!

 

[Sirius815]

So - thanks to enlightenment by xoptimizedrsx, my method of copying a race map is "risky" due to possible errors when copying to/from notepad. It is still possible to use this method, however the new video (not mine) is posted in this thread: http://www.buellxb.com/Buell-XB-For...How-not-to-copy-a-race-map-is-more-like-it... (video on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfF3-JNEmy0)

My video will be taken down from youtube (or at least made a private). If you'd like to see it anyways, PM me and I'll see what I can do.

Ben K.