{"id":240,"date":"2010-11-12T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/another-long-overdue-update-on-the-dragon-trike\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T02:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:12:23","slug":"another-long-overdue-update-on-the-dragon-trike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/trikes\/another-long-overdue-update-on-the-dragon-trike\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Long Overdue Update on the Dragon Trike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clutch issue was resolved by continuing to swap out pressure plates until I found one that worked.<\/p>\n<p>The one that finally worked is one that was on the free parts shelf at the BTW clubhouse. It was coated with a fine layer of rust, but it cleaned up perfectly and more importantly, it works. I neglected to get a picture of it, but it was one similar to this.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_CYrYDm4AI4w\/TN18OzbZ7OI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/Ga89TkW1_x8\/s1600\/pressureplate.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_CYrYDm4AI4w\/TN18OzbZ7OI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/Ga89TkW1_x8\/s320\/pressureplate.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is still an absolute mystery why the one I bought didn&#8217;t work, but my instincts indicate that it has something to do with the mix-n-match nature of the engine and transaxle combination.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s streetable, though the shifter is a pain to deal with. I plan to install one of these, or one like it<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_CYrYDm4AI4w\/TN2AAfbnLjI\/AAAAAAAAANE\/QLN-6N7c7rE\/s1600\/shifter.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_CYrYDm4AI4w\/TN2AAfbnLjI\/AAAAAAAAANE\/QLN-6N7c7rE\/s200\/shifter.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have dedicated a number of hours tuning on the EFI system. At first, I was fighting a bad O2 sensor and now I&#8217;m fighting what I can only conclude is erroneous injector specifications. All indications are that they are 245 cc\/min injectors. Using that number, every iteration through the basic fuel equation returns a ReqFuel number of 22 or so, which it then divides amongst two injectors. Trouble is, the engine will hardly even idle if the number is below 30 and it doesn&#8217;t run with a decent AFR until about 44. The astute observer will note that the number that works is exactly double the number given. This leads me to wonder if I should &nbsp;keep thinking that I should be able to trick it into by telling it my injectors are half the flow they are, hoping for it to come back with a 44. It apparently doesn&#8217;t work that way, for telling it 125 cc\/min comes back with, like 28.<\/p>\n<p>So, ignoring the set up and using 44 as the ReqFuel number gets the thing running.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using TunerStudio instead of MegaTune. I like it better overall. The dashboard configuration is very easy to customize.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_CYrYDm4AI4w\/TN2CbkcvgwI\/AAAAAAAAANI\/A9zq3fmEdT0\/s1600\/2010-11-09+19.24.13.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_CYrYDm4AI4w\/TN2CbkcvgwI\/AAAAAAAAANI\/A9zq3fmEdT0\/s320\/2010-11-09+19.24.13.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With MegaTune, I would have to swap out one gauge or another when I was working on various pieces of the tune, but with TunerStudio&#8217;s dashboard, I have all the gauges showing at once. I need to play with their layout a bit, but they are all there!<\/p>\n<p>TunerStudio&#8217;s&nbsp;<i>VE Analyze Live!<\/i> feature is a pretty cool autotune facility, however in my case, it seems to want to lean out mixtures that are already lean, where I would expect it to richen them. Perhaps I have some settings wrong. In any case, it&#8217;s still cool to watch it change the numbers and to see the engine respond to the changes.<\/p>\n<p>With continued vigilance, I hope to have this thing reliably on the street in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clutch issue was resolved by continuing to swap out pressure plates until I found one that worked. The one that finally worked is one that was on the free parts shelf at the BTW clubhouse. It was coated with a fine layer of rust, but it cleaned up perfectly and more importantly, it works. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/trikes\/another-long-overdue-update-on-the-dragon-trike\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Long Overdue Update on the Dragon Trike<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}