To all the forum's technical wizzards, I have a problem which seems tricky to me but maybe trivial to others. A year ago I had a nasty accident with my beloved black VFR. A cab driver who changed his mind in the middle of the left waiting line for the lights decided to cut to the right. He did it almost perpendiculary across three lanes, while I was traveling at about 100 kph toward the green lights. Tried to veer with him but lost the front in a hysterical lowside. The bike rocketed into the cab and got stuck underneath. I spilled on the road and came away with a dislocated right shoulder, a broken finger on the let foot and some superficial scratches along my right side. But the bike, it got the full brunt of the impact. Everything that didn't fit under the cab was stripped clean. I was evacuated to a hospital and the bike towed away. After a couple of week when I mustered up the courage to take a look at it I was in tears. All the front fairings and radiators gone, the front cowl with all the electronics shattered, handlebars broken off and in general a sorry picture. On the other hand I was the owner of a basic 2006 VFR with intact engine, frame, suspension and undamaged rear fairings. At the beginning I tried to sell this basic setup but didn't succeed. Then I started to think about restoring it to original. The bad news was that the cost of parts was prohibitive, approaching the worth of the bike itself (here in Israel the price of bikes is twice the price in the US and the parts four times as much). Then I decided to turn it into a streetfighter. It took a few months of shopping around to find a passing front mask, a GP style digital instruments cluster, one piece handlebars, a convex radiator for front mounting and a great looking "Screemin Devil" short muffler. And here we encountered the big problem! Nobody noticed the missing PGM-FI unit! It must have been lost in the accident or snitched by the tow driver. This is where the collective knowledge of the forum is called upon to help. I have a friend coming from the states in two weeks and gave him the assignement to purchase a new PGM for me. The part number is 38770-MCW-H01. The problem is that the US part number is 38770-MCW-K01. I need to know if it is the same PGM and more important, what is the correct start up procedure. Sorry I couldn't resist telling the whole story. I will greatly appreciate your thoughts and advices on the matter. Even sentimental support is welcome Thanks for your patience Peter the Wolf
Pgmfi Great story, sounds like you got lucky. Anyway, I am no expert but the part differences are most likely due to the different emission standards for the two locations, including calibration for the different emission control systems. Willing to bet there may two part numbers in the US one for CA and one for the rest. You can easily overcome any problems the different controls may cause by buying and after market add on that allows you to program the FI like the power commander. Hope this makes sense and helps. Worse case scenarios is the plugs are different but highly doubt Honda would have different M/F connections in different locations. Good luck and watch out for f'in taxis and other crazy cages.
