Factory Pro's own GP Gold Eprom This is the chip that takes the mystery out of how to get a 748rs to run cleanly.		Factorini Provente Hybrid Ceramic Pro Shift Kit Shift quicker, miss fewer shifts, shifts better - up and down, find neutral easier Trackday bike "must have".
			Lighter weight  "Shift  Right"  Shift Centering Spring For Easier Shifts

Factorini Provente Microbearing Shift Kit - quicker shifting and virtually eliminate missed shifts. Combine the Shift Kit and the Lightweight Centering Spring for the ultimate.
SHFT-PRO-D748-CER   $139.95 Hybrid Ceramic MicroBearing F-Pro Detent Arm and F-Pro spring. Does not include clutch cover gasket. 1. Choose your shipping method   14.00 Domestic USA Standard Ground 48.00 International USPS Express 44.50 Russia International USPS Priority 8.00 each additional item in shipment 2. right under the clutch stock arm to left, Factory Pro MicroBearing to right 45520031A	Factorini Provente Shift Kit Love the bike? Except for the shifting? Hard to find neutral? Misses downshifts on the track? ..................................... The famous Factorini Provente Shift Kit is now available for the Ducati Twins. Factorini Provente designed and manufactured Microbearing Detent Arm and Factorini Provente designed Detent Spring will firm up the shift feel and virtually eliminates missed shifts - both upshifting and downshifting and neutral is easier to find. Trackday and race bikes Eliminates the need for that old, annoying "ducati trick" of removing the "really kinda necessary" neutral detent that was done to quicken up the shifting on trackday and race bikes ..... (did I mention that when I put a bike in neutral on the dyno, that I really prefer it to STAY in neutral and not "wander into 1st gear by itself? :-) Shifts quicker.  Misses fewer shifts. Perfect to install when working on the clutch. Feels loads better. Decreases Shift Kill time by 5ms to 10ms if using a quick shifter. ......................................... Remove the clutch assembly, remove the RH engine cover  - bolt in the kit. Includes: Factorini Provente Microbearing Detent Arm and Factorini Provente Detent Spring. (This kit does not include a clutch cover gasket) Installation: Less than 2 hours to install with impact wrench and large socket set. Can I install it myself?  Yes - If you can remove the clutch assembly, you can do this.     May 23, 2013   From Leigh Thomas Heather rode her bike for the 1st time since I put the shift kit in. I asked if she liked it, this was her response. "Yes! Much better. Much smoother. Thank you. :)"
Lightweight Shift Centering Spring $49.95 Click Here to buy SPECIAL INTRO! $39.95 Just rode bike awesome shifting, smooth, smooth smooth thanks Mike Hoak August 2013	Lightweight Shift Centering Spring For when you decide that you want lighter feeling shift lever action for better feel. A lighter foot shift pressure is less unsettling. Decreases lever effort required to make a shift.  Makes foot shift pressure more like other sportbikes. Since you are not having to push so hard to move the lever, it's easier to find neutral. Like your rearsets? But, no matter how you lube, shim, adjust the arcs, angles and lengths, it's still annoyingly stiff to shift?
Factory Pro "GP Gold" series EPROM chip - the only chip that works.
EPR-D748r-74877-17 $599.95 limited supply 1. Choose your shipping method 14.00 Domestic USA Standard Ground 48.00 International USPS Express 8.00 each additional item in shipment > 2. This is the 1.6 Magneti Marelli ecu that the Factory Pro chip works in.	Ducati 748r, 00-01 with 16AW ecu This is THE only Chip that civilizes the 748r. Tired of hearing  "The reason the 748r runs poorly is:" 1. "It's the c****y gas we have here" 2. It's a racebike - it's not supposed to run at low rpm..." Well - here's the story.... 1. The 748r doesn't run well in:  the US, Canada, Germany, the UK, Ireland. South Africa, Denmark, Bermuda, and even ITALY. So - even in Italy, where the bike was originally tuned, it didn't run well. 2. Tired of hearing: "It's a racebike."   The 748r doesn't run well at low rpm AND part throttle / high rpm. Every race bike in the world has to run at part throttle - and the stock 748 chip actually cuts out at high rpm / part throttle. No wonder the teams that raced them replaced the ECU with programmable ones and hired an electronics engineer to run it. Well - we figured out the chip programming issue and custom tuned many, many AMA Pro Thunder Ducatis, (including Debi Venega's Ducati) - stock and modified on our EC997 dyno facility at many AMA National Roadraces. Talk about acid test. FIX part throttle operation, removes 3k stumbling, 4k-5.5k flat spot, pulls harder through midrange and topend, runs right at part throttle - even at 9k - even in neutral!! Cruises better -  much nicer bike, now. feedback report
Date: Sept 2008 location: Denmark Hi again Marc   I just want to thank you for the new chip. All the problems I had with my bike are gone. It's running just like you promised on your site. I had many thoughts abut if it was overkill for me to by the 748r with no experience in driving a motorcycle. But with your chip I know it was the right thing for me. What a great bike. Regards Jens Peter Sorensen

You'd think that if you had developed a chip that fixed a particular bike's major issues that would sell like hotcakes - wouldn't you? Maybe everybody just accepts the 748r's poor drivability?

The 748rs IS pretty and is one of the BEST sounding internal combustion engines ever made!

A power commander is a waste of time and energy, if you want the best performance.

It took the Low Inertia EC997 Eddy Current dynamometer system to be able to develop this multi faceted (main fuel, fuel offset, coolant temp., air temp., ignition, idle ignition, full throttle ignition) chip.
The EC997 dynos are simply the best dynos for fuel injection work. Other dynos are incapable of pile of little realtime .1 and .2 hp increments "seeing" the detail required to produce elegant maps and rely on their extremely coarse, Chef Boyardee dealership level "Auto tuning" no experience required, just push the buttons, "sell the dream" scheme.

PART THROTTLE OPERATION

It's pretty disconcerting to buy one of the most expensive (and prettiest and best handling) 750's around and then have to hear:
"It's a "racebike replica" - of course it doesn't run at part throttle.."
"It's the gas we have" is what I've heard.
Well, after some research, it seems that the gas in the US, UK, France, Germany, Norway, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and even Italy, was all "substandard" and "that's why" the bikes run poorly.  Don't blame the dealer - they can only go by what the manufacturer tells them.

"Huh?"  "Say what??" asks Factory Pro, surprised.... "But why?"  asks I (Marc - and that's how a tuning project starts......)

From the tuners with more (successful) mc Fuel Injection tuning experience than just about any other single USA company.....
(we tune TEKA EMS, Bosch, Denso, Magneti-Marelli, Suzuki oem, (and pc's - as well as possible, anyway)

FULL THROTTLE at 3000 rpm

We fixed the bogging.

FULL THROTTLE at 5000 to 6000 rpm

We fixed the flatness.

Part throttle Cruise

We fixed the surging and bucking.
 

A 748R chip that works.  At full and part throttle.

These chips deliver smooth running at cruise, full throttle AND at part throttle - even at 3k and 9k rpm!
Smooth. Silk. More power - everywhere.
That's about it. Simple.

Got something unique? Ported? Cammed? Bored throttle bodies? $775 - (for custom programming)
at selected Factory Pro Tuning Centers
(~1 week turnaround)
(and a power commander will never, never, never, ever reach the potential performance of a professionally developed chip - that's NOT sour grapes - it's just a fact - anybody who says differently hasn't compared custom tuned chip to custom tune pc. Period.)

contact: info@factorypro.com
(for information)

How did WE do it - and not the others?
You would need a 4 Gas EGA EC997 Low Inertia Eddy Current Dyno to know.
We developed the FLUX Factor to show engine smoothness - and NOBODY else has that on their dyno!
We designed the dyne system around it.
We use the same dyne system that we sell.

No other dyno will provide the dyno power and engine smoothness information required to fix the 748r map.
Period.

We take trade-ins on competing dyno systems.

Still tuning by luck? Stop.

 TECH INFORMATION 

Idle quality and cruise smoothness after installing the Factory Pro D748 chip

After installing the Factory Pro Eprom or any Eprom, you may find, due to the differences in each and every individual bike, that the idle quality will change - sometimes for the better - sometimes, not..... Idle pot setting also affects the fueling at idle and at cruise.

If you install a different Eprom, and the idle quality or cruise quality changes, (and, actually, it should - as a general rule), you should adjust the Idle mixture.  How?
Pretty easy -

Locate the small potentiometer IN the ecu, just to the side of the chip socket ECU (uses a very small flat bladed screwdriver to adjust) and, as the bike is warmed up and running at idle, turn the adjusting screw either way till you find the setting that produces the highest rpm idle. Done?

Congratulations - you have just tuned the idle circuit! Back down the idle speed to desired speed and recheck your "pot" setting .

Don't fret about which way on the "pot" is leaner and which way is richer - it makes no difference - just find the "happy" place.

"Blip" the throttle a bit and verify that the bike comes back down to a stable idle without "hanging up". If it "hangs up" on it's way down, it's slightly lean. If it "blips", then drops below the set idle, then slowly rise back up, it's too rich.

Put everything back together and go for a ride.

Final trim the pot to smoothest cruise.

Marc

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007

From - Sun Nov 25 00:22:59 2007
From: "Barry Mccarthy" <bmccarthy@xtra.co.nz>
To: <info@factorypro.com>
Subject: Eprom for 748r

Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:26:50 -0500
From: Brian Leitner <brian@leitner.com>
To: "Marc W. Salvisberg" <factory2@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: GSF400 Kit

Thanks Marc.  BTW, the Factory Pro chip for my 748R still rocks out--thanks for putting it on the market.

You have a good Christmas, also.

Brian

Marc W. Salvisberg wrote:

There's 2 options, but it depends on the t-stat that you bike has - Sometimes and F3, if I remember, was a match to some 
Suzuki's - It's a ~185f, and just fine.
Best idea is to bring yours down to a good auto parts store that caters to professionals and match it up - pretty cheap.
Have a Merry Christmas!
Marc

 Brian Leitner wrote:

I've recently purchased a kit from Factory Pro for my GSF400.  No  problems.  Your site says, however, the bike will run best and would 
be best dialed in with a 190F thermostat.  Does Factory Pro sell such  a thermostat?  If not, where does Factory Pro get'em?  
THANKS MUCH and have a great one.

Brian Leitner

www.leitner.com

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