F'ing problem child is living up to it's rep this spring. There are 6 bolts total to install a Termi slip on system. Simple. Long story short it took weeks to get the pipes to fit the bike. Once that was done, time to install a new chip in the ECU. Ten minutes, right? Wrong. Have to pull the ECU to do it, which resulted in finding a rattle that led to buying an NOS ECU. Once that was here, 15 minutes to install it, no problem! Got it in to find out fuel pump wouldn't run. Pull new ECU out, check if chip is installed correctly (it was) leading to troubleshooting which eventually showed the connector to the fuel pump was seeing the voltage it should see when it should see it, so must be the pump. Jumped power to the pump and it ran.
Fook me. Connector is good. WTF?
Same thing happened to my 996 a couple years ago. Screw it, new fuel pump ordered.
So, what should have taken maybe an hour tops with no cost involved has taken weeks with hundreds of dollars involved. All par for the course for this thing.
The good news is... I discovered the flakey ECU and fuel pump in my basement rather than on the road, so that's good. Now I'm just waiting to find out which sensor has blown which will prevent this thing from running once the pump is worked out.
It's all good. Best dog I ever had was a complete pain in the beginning. This bike is going to figure out who the boss is eventually too...
And yes, that is the ECU hanging off the side. I knew I shouldn't have put the bodywork back on without checking things out the first time!