Hi

we are really struggling getting our emmissions correct on our TL1000R engined car. we have put a 200 cell cat on it about 3 feet into the system just before the silencer.

my fear is its not lighting up the cat but as i dont know the official emmissions figures from the TL then we dont know if the thing just isnt running right.

we need to see 0.03 on the CO reading and its currently running at 4.0! the other cat related readings are all high. we have run it up to 105 degrees water temp but this didnt really effect anything. what we havent done is screamed the nips off it to see if it gets hot.

what have you other BEC builders done for yours. we only have 6 weeks till the SVA retest date runs out so were getting twitchy!

oh, we do have a power commander 2 on it so can adjust maps if anyone has one

it does have a dirty great pipercross filter on it too with the origonal air box taken off but all sensors are where they should be!

Might be as they run, but I have no experience of the TL. I do have GSXR experience though, far too much of it.... assuming no error codes on the instruments, and if you can't wind off enough fuel with the PC - look at the STV's (and perhaps their removal). Drastic?, no, not if you look at how rich/unclean Suzuki have to run their engines to keep the noise down at low/mid RPM.

The TL1000R was pre Euro 2 exhaust emission testing and as such ran very rich from the factory. 4.0% would be quite normal for this engine. therefore if you have to get the emissions down, the only way will be to lean it off to produce the required figures. The problem is that the engine will not run at all well and you will probably have to raise the idle to stop it stalling. The later SV1000 was much leaner as it had to pass Euro 2 emissions but the engine was reworked and lower power in order to pass.