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So is there a quick way to boost power on the Rs1100?
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:05 pm
by Bencmaster
I'm trying to read between the lines here as there seems to be all sorts of opinion...but are any of the available chips any good? I don't think I would choose any of the other options.
Anybody out there with personal experience?
Ben
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:33 pm
by stempy
Best way to boost power is to buy a more powerful bike.
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:54 pm
by winger
There isn't a quick way to get 100hp,and there isn't a cheap way either!!!.
Chris
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:35 am
by boxerpan
I'm with the Captain......buy another bike and keep the S for those pipe and slipper moments in your life.
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:37 pm
by andrew s
I'm with the rest,
Keep the throttle nailed open, and let the handling keep the speed up.
Andrew
More power
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:50 am
by mkmutley
Mine's got Vanderlinde exhaust (no cat and comes with a chip) and heads modded by a BM Dealer (£500). Dyno proves 8 to 10 bhp at the wheel, throughout the rev range.
The power increase is noticeable when thrashed & the cans make it sound superb.....the best on the market (well they were, I think they're not made any more).
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:21 am
by andrew s
Mr Mutley,
What work did you have done to the heads that cost £500. Got to agree the Vanerline does sound nice.
Andrew
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:34 pm
by winger
Mutley you must have found someone very speacial 8-10 horsepower with a pipe and a gas flow???
Chris
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:31 am
by Skint
winger wrote:Mutley you must have found someone very speacial 8-10 horsepower with a pipe and a gas flow???
Chris, mr mutley said he had some head work, maybe the cylinder was rebored to a 1300cc????
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:12 pm
by stempy
Perhaps it was his own head
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:03 pm
by boxerpan
First posting and the guy gets ripped apart. Tut tut
What dyno & when .... if Mutley can post the results and show that they are comparable who are we to disbelieve
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:17 pm
by stempy
I'd like to know what sort of 'head job' a BM dealer can do. It's all most of them can do to fit the right spark plug
No offence meant to anyone
just us sceptics who've been there, done it and given up.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:30 pm
by boxerpan
stempy wrote:I'd like to know what sort of 'head job' a BM dealer can do. It's all most of them can do to fit the right spark plug
No offence meant to anyone
just us sceptics who've been there, done it and given up.
The bright dealers take the job and then sub it out to someone like Mr Hackett who knows what they are doing, then bolt it back together and claim the credit and add their bit to the bill. Next time I'm in Northampton I'll see if I can find out who did the job
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:31 pm
by winger
Of course if your lucky enough to know a good engine tuner he'll tell you one of the worse engines to benefit from a head job is a BM why?? cuz the head castings are so good in the first place.
Chris
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:26 pm
by Boxadog 2000
True statement Chris, many moons past I presented a pair of heads from an air cooled BM to a guy who specialised in gas flowing for the racing fraternity who said much the same thing port angles swirl function is all spot on the only thing he could mod was to knife edge the valve guide castings but this was of very negligeable benefit.
It has to be said that BMW give good head !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!