Tilt Sensor

[orangeblurr]

Another question for you guys, anybody have any idea if I can disengage the tilt sensor. One of my buddies told me I should disengage it. Is this even possible? Should I disengage it?

[theJrod]

I haven't seen a need to disconnect mine yet. I don't know if you can just unplug the Suzuki one and have it work or not.... but I hate having to splice wires to get something to work.

[CBRmania]

Why do you need to do this? I have been racing the same bike (and many others as well) for over a year and have found no need to do this. Just wondering what the need is?

[dinolee]

Most people will RVT Silicon the little weight to the center of the pendulum. I've heard on Suzuki's, trying to actually bypass it electrically is a pain in the butt.

The sensor is pretty user friendly to do the mod on, the cover of it should have 4 screws with a rubber seal on the inside. Don't lose the seal or break it, or lose a screw, otherwise water does get inside and start to corrode the pendulum path.

[justintime2]

Not sure what your riding or how your TOS (Tip over sensor) is set-up. The Suzuki one has a small ball with an electrical connection suspending it inside of a housing. It can only swing on an axis purpundicular to the bike. Meaning it can only swing from side to side. If it makes contact with the sides of the housing going past a certain pre-determined lean angle, it kills the engine.

With the agressive riding and lean angels of racing, some have experienced the sensor being trip at steap lean angels or while flicking agressively. Obviously your engine shutting of in that situation is undesireable and could have a bad outcome. To bypass it, on the Suzuki anyway, you open up the TOS with a few screws, center the ball in it's travel path and fill both left and right sides of it with silicone. put it back together and let it dry for awhile before remounting or riding. You cannot just remove or unplug the TOS or your bike will likely not start and throw a code.

The disadvantage is that if you wreck the bike may not shut off, continuing to run, spill fluids, drive train spinning and possibly catch fire with spilling gas and active spark/exhaust still flowing. Mine is bypassed by the method mentioned above and was done so when I got it, AMA bike. I have wrecked several times and the bike always quite running on it's own w/o the sensor. The location on my 02' 1K is centered on the rear lateral frame connector just underneath the rear of the gas tank. :)

[piper907]

yup... the older GSXRs had an issue with the tip sensor so many people filled it up with silicone like justin.
I haven't heard of anyone having any issues with the K6-K7 models so I left mine functional but I zip tied it in place (with the arrow pointing up:)) so it wouldnt work itself loose and inadvertantly kill the bike... I haven't had any issues so far.

[orangeblurr]

yeah, that's what I was wondering, if it is even worth attempting. The thing is I cut the back half of my plastic undertail right after the bolt that holds it. The Tilt sensor mount was on that cut off piece. Now I have to find a new spot for it, or just take it out. Seems like I'll have to find a new spot for it.

[justintime2]

Be carefull how and where you remount it or it's pendulum effect will be changed. :)

[piper907]

just zip-ty it to the plastic under your tail section mounting bolts... with the arrow pointing UP!

[justintime2]

Make sure it's centered on the midline of the bike too, otherwise one side may measure more than actual lean angel and the other less. :)