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ice

19-09-10, 03:46 PM

hi.. i'v read a lot of posts that reckon getting a power commander for a sv650s is a wast of money, i have a sk6 with desnorkel and k&n airfilter and irdium plugs and scorpion end can. i understand that the gain i get will be very small but can u notice a diffrence? many thanks for the help... .. lol...

maviczap

19-09-10, 06:32 PM

I don't have one, but I know Skip had one fitted to his Sv1000 and a remap.

I don't think there were any big power gains, but it smoothed the fuelling, making it much nicer to ride all round.

Could be the same for yours

ice

19-09-10, 07:14 PM

davepreston

19-09-10, 07:36 PM

same as tre if you want a faster bike buy a gixer or similar ,unless your loaded
its a sv a budget bike, only thing worth doing is suspension

andrewsmith

19-09-10, 09:45 PM

apologies for double posting this

Search the forum for suspension upgrades as they will give you more use of the power that is there for not a lot of money.

a PC and tuning won't give you any gains unless the rest of the bike can take it

Skip

20-09-10, 09:54 AM

Tis true I fitted one to my SV1000 - got it 2nd hand from ePay for £150 and spent £100 having it mapped properly. Bike made 111hp at the back tyre without it but 114hp with - but it was how it smoothed everything out throughout the rev range that I did it for - which is exactly what it did so for me personally - money well spent :)

phil24_7

20-09-10, 09:48 PM

Bought 1 off eBay for £80, new. Spent £140 getting it mapped by a god, and as far as I'm concerned, it was money well spent. Fuelling was smoothed right out, taking away low rev/slow speed jumpiness. Acceleration was improved, as was top end. Best mod I did after the GSXR suspension all round.

If I didn't get the PCIII so cheap, I probably would've settled for a Yoshi tune though.

I'm still running 74bhp from a 650 with only an Aky full system and the snorkel removed!