The XWORKS, now "EXWErks" Story

After XWorks (ExWerks) Tries to bash BrenTuning over and over, Bren (owner of BrenTuning Steps in to lay down some facts WITH VIDEO PROOF.  To see what led to this view the photo gallery below this post. 

This is the post:

"Dear Floyd,

Brendan here (Owner of BrenTuning). I rarely post because I would rather give my full attention to support our large S1000 customer base and innovate new products and solutions for the community. I hate to have to even spend a minute doing this but enough is enough.

I will keep this non-personal and factual.

I spoke with you many months ago on the phone and asked you politely like a gentleman to keep your digs at us offline and off the phone and you continue to do it. You stated RCK coding jobs weren’t going hot and you were going to offer a euro flash for the 2020. This confused the people here (amongst shops you sold it too) into thinking it was actual tuning, when it was not. You however ran with it, and doubled down. I could care less as long as you didn’t bring our name until it and acted professional. You, however, chose the latter. 

I figured it would stop when you knew the 650IB/Motomillion S1000RR came to us for “re-tuning” and I got to read what you did (and didn’t do) to the ECU. I parked this information, but you can’t help yourself by talking about us constantly and getting into any thread we’re in, so I will no longer sit on this information.

You state the 2020 BMW flash is a ‘special’ tune, utilizing code, and has certain features and abilities that it does not and anyone can test it themselves with the information I give them below. My findings is it does not and it’s exactly what I thought it was ahead of time. I was able to test all of this when 650IB’s bike came to me to be done. I connected the bike to ISTA, read out all parts of the ECU, and placed the bike on the dyno to look at air fuel, power/torque, features you state happen (intake flap open, 193+mph speedo).

What I found wasn’t surprising. None of that was there. There is a reason you need a servo buddy with this map, and you have no features, as it’s all stock European bike programming on the tuning side that controls the engine.

It was just a USA bike coded to EU content, aka European software version. No USA bike came with 5F170C000A. No tuned bike needs to be updated to this software version to fix the throttle restriction, period. This is an uneducated way of “upgrading” a bike to EU, to fix the throttle. The only reason you would do this is that it’s all you know how to do, coding. Not tuning. Call it what it is. You didn’t tune prior to the 2020, and you don’t now. I have been tuning these bikes since 2012, I don’t need your eeprom coding.

What you have done is loaded the eeprom with activations such as “EU content” and support of series launch pre series, endurance trail, and authority special parts. There were no changes made to anything on the 4.0MB side for tuning that you stated it did. 

There are no power adjustments, air fuel adjustments, cold start adjustments, cluster adjustments, intake flap adjustments, race ECU adjustments found in the race ECU amongst many of the other fibs you thought on this forum. I put 650Ib’s ECU in our shop bike and tested on our dyno and recorded a fat 188WHP on 93, just like the other factory bikes we have here.

To those who are reading, these coding items to European spec however, do nothing other then remove the throttle limiter, code the software to software version 5F170C000A (European bikes, de-restricted throttle).

Quite simply if you “tuned” a 2020 S1000RR built outside of USA and Canada, the customers bike would be 100% the same it left the dealership with. This isn’t tuning. If you can tune a bike you can turn off the exhaust servo for crying out loud or set the fan temp. And no those items aren’t in Race2000 or ECM (tuning suites) either if you make the purchase one day.

But you can’t. 

Hopefully since the days of 650IB ECU, you have learned more or purchased actual tuning equipment. But until then, you de-frauded the whole community here with a mis-marketed product. But a lot of people are riding around on false promises right now (motomillion sold like 2 of your “flashes”).

Anyone can search your posts and see how you state it does all of that and it doesn’t.

So I waited for this day, I videotaped all of the discovery I had with 650IB’s bike, and videoed what it did and didn’t do. I can go much much deeper here, but I would rather not.

Anyone who disputes this blindly, I welcome you to a host of videos posted below and graphs. The descriptions in the videos will explain what you are looking at. A tell tale sign of European coding distinctly has different switches activated on the ECU side that show up in the cluster. The check engine light stays on after start up. 

What each video offers here:

Reading 650IB’s ECU to see it was 100% EUROPEAN SOFTWARE.  Video here shows all European coding and software / hardware versions, being directly read out of the 650ib ecu live. Numbers below match only bikes built de-restricted in European.

SEE VIDEO HERE

Compared XWORKS “tuned” ECU to a stock European file we tuned that day, it was 100% stock other then a checksum correction.  ExWerks - A customer from Austrailia conveniently with the same software version as ExWorks! So we overlaid 650ib / exwerks flash on top of the factory Australia file. All the changes in red and yellow.

SEE VIDEO HERE

Showing XWORKS tuned ECU has the telltale European check engine light start up. 

SEE VIDEO HERE

Showing XWORKS ISTA start up report with EU coding placed into it.  Coding of the factory US bike is done with eeprom changes activating EU content (European files) amongst other useless coding done below.  Dealerships won’t like see this when considering your warranty..

SEE VIDEO HERE

Utilizing 650IB’s key cluster and ECU showing on the dyno the mph does not go over 192MPH, nor does it open the airbox flaps at 6k.  This video demonstrates the lack of 192mph speedo removal, as touted as a "feature" in the xworks flash with 650ibs setup. The bike has a 43T sprocket and goes 212 on gps.

SEE VIDEO HERE

Showing the dyno sheet of the XWORKS ECU producing stock power and stock air fuel ratios vs. his BrenTuning flash same day.  Video compares a same day dyno test in 650ib XWorks (ExWerks) ecu on pump gas.  XWorks ecu makes 188whp (factory power on this dyno), brentuning map makes 197, then 200whp after //M+ BrenTuning Flash.  

SEE VIDEO HERE

So now that this unfortunate drama is solved and out of the way, I suggest we go back to the original “don’t talk about me and I won’t talk about you” gentleman's agreement we had on the phone. Because there are many more skeletons in the closet and I’d rather just help people enjoy racing their S1000RRs and go fast."

You can read above where XWORKS (EXWERKS) said the issue was initially hardware because 650ib's motorcycle ran horribly after their flash.  When the flash changed to BrenTuning, it was suddenly fixed (see below).  

You can see in the post that BMW_388 (owner of XWORKS 'EXWERKS') said that hardware was attacked initially as the cause.. as far as we know he was the only one championing that point of view with his guessing game mechanical knowledge.  Anyone that has a datalogger and logs the cold start fueling and ignition can see what the issue is.. and it isn't mechanical like he originally stated.

He also says only US bikes are effected by this.. another lie.  This cold start strategy is found in US and Euro spec models.  He also claims only 100 bikes are effected.  Seeing as he can't even provide data from his own motorcycle, I'll take it he doesn't have data on every K67 S1000RR in the world.