I agree and feel this is the best option for most riders, not taking away from the other tuners. It's just that most won't feel the need to tweak the ECU like some of us pathological piddlers.

 

I understand that Auto-Tune Pro will come first, which works with the AT-100's WB O2 sensors, and AT Basic (stock NB sensors) will follow. PV with AT Pro will not be a true auto-tuning combo, as the ECU cannot access the WB sensors directly, and although AT Basic will work in limited closed-loop it won't offer a true, full-ranging auto-tuning capability either.

The total process is probably more like 30 sec. I agree that this is a downside to PV, but I don't think it will be much of a factor for most of us. I rarely used the map-switch feature since my bike doesn't run that hot, and if I really get into some slow-moving traffic it won't be a big deal to pull over and change tunes in a span of 30 sec. or so.

I agree that their maps are very close, and close enough where nobody should be able to feel the difference. When I moved to Auto-Tune with the PCV my trims were no more than 1-2% in the areas where FM tuned, more of course where I changed the AFR values, and that is what I would call dead-on. I would venture to say that if you dyno-tuned the bike, then brought it back for another dyno-tune a week later you'd have at least that much variance between the two.

 

Any benifit to adding the EMS before changing the stock mufflers and intake? I plan to do it all but cant do it all at once. Would the EMS cool it down for now until I get the rest? Or should I just wait to do it all at once.

 

You can not use the EMS with the cats in the headers. This comes straight from Rev Perf. I called them two days ago to see of the availbility for 2011 (not avail yet due to them not being able to hack into the 2011 ECM's yet they said they are working on it and hoped to have it within a couple of weeks or months) They point blank told me that the EMS would load up the catalytic convertor in stock head pipes so equiped and that they would definetly not recommend them for stock pipes that were running cats.

You also need 18mm O2 bungs. If you have these and don't have a cat they said it would definetly give some improvement in rideability.