Originally Posted by b0fh

the saga continues...
put a nice tank of regular gas and off I went to record 15MB of log files
bike was running beautifully, no 'lazyness' when I got on the throttle, and the logs shown where the pings (or pre-pings as I've heard the M8 acts on them even before they happen due to the nice piezo sensors)... anyway, they happened mostly on front jug, 2250-3000 RPM and higher MAP readings (80-ish). some on lower RPM and 60-ish MAP. interestingly, exactly where some engineer decided it was a good idea to give the front cylinder 3 extra degrees over the rear.. d'oh
enough events to trigger the 'learning' thing (which was reset when I changed from 824 to 921... so that might be the trick to reset the 'bad history').
calibration already corrected, tomorrow we rinse & repeat.

thanks all for the valuable input. much appreciated.