Herb wrote:What are you allowed to do within the rules of your racing class?
Hi
Engine wise, anything apart from supercharging or turbocharging.
Chassis wise, anything you want.
Gus
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gus wrote:PBBoxer wrote:Gus
Are there many options out there for road going 1200s motor tuning?
Hi Paul
Depends on how far you want to go with it (or how deep are your pockets). For the road I found a full decent exhaust system, piper x air filter and a decent fuel controller (rapid box / power commander ) or a ecu map reflash(rexer) was enough to make the bike nice to ride and quick enough.
Lighter pistons and rods will give good engine response and also give the big ends a easier time if your exploring the upper rev range a lot. There is more that can be done but you then need to change a lot of other things to make the bike reliable. These mods would only be viable if your racing and need a more powerful bike to better your times.
Gus
omg1010 wrote:Hi Gus,
this looks terrible! Seems to be one of the valves ripped off (common thing) and caused all that mess. To my knowledge the R1200R/GS blocks are the same as the S block. Same goes with the cylinders. Only the heads are different (and very difficult to get). But I believe its possible to take GS heads and re-machine them to take the 12S valves and to fit on the exhaust side.
Concerning big-bore you have several options. Cheapest would be to buy conrods, pistons and head-gaskets from Woessner (will cost around 1200 euros). Find yourself a shop capable of boring and coating your cylinders (must be a specialist though!). That should be in the range of 800 Euros. Put the pieces together yourself if you can. The ECU must be reprogrammed (rexxer) or powercommander installed. You will then be in the range of 140+ HP and it is highly recommended that the oil supply be modified (oil-pump mod and oil cooler taken off the HP2S).
My 12S with untouched engine (only piper-x, HP2S headers, Zard exhaust, re-programmed ECU (Rexxer) delivers 137 HP and 124 NM. With bigbore that should easily come to +140 HP and +135 NM.
Brgds
Oliver
com5984 wrote:Crashed my bike at Phillip Island
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gus wrote:com5984 wrote:Crashed my bike at Phillip Island
http://bmwsr.org/forum/showthread.php/1 ... ost1555217
Hi
That's what happens when you have a nice paint job on a race bike!!!
Seriously though, glad you are unhurt. The bike can be fixed, you may need a few Ty wraps as well as duct tape though.
Where on track did you fall?
PM me if you need help with parts, I may be able to sort you out with a few contacts.
All the best
Gus
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