Panzer Patrol
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As some of you are aware, in the name of scientific research, (so dont shout at me) I am looking for the elusive oomph. (more top end) My first post was regarding cams. Will 1100 RS cams go into the GS? Well it seems they will and they are in the post. Once I have tried them I will give you an update. However, RS bits led me to thinking. A lot of RS/RT owners change their inlet tubes for GS ones to give them more bottom end and better drive-ability especially for touring.
My thoughts were, lets try it the other way around. RS inlet tubes on the GS for more top end. Motorwork supplied some secondhand ones off the shelf. The overall diameter is much bigger than the GS ones by approx 6mm. They are also shorter, extending into the air box by only about 20mmm. They look big an mean.
So, after fitting a Remus Revolution can, I tried the bike..... better, much better. I then tried the RS inlet rubbers.... better again. More breating at the top end. There is a slight loss in lower midrange, but upper midrange is wayyy better.
To describe the difference. On a particular road, the bike in its previous form, with a good run out of the corner leading onto the straight, could manage 120-125 maxed out. This time, without a good run out of the corner (cos it was covered in cow shit) and just blasting it down the straight, reached 130 before it reached a major dip in the road. So it seems to work on top end.
Drive-ability was difficult to assess through the seat of the pants test. It is such a lazy engine I have always found this diffiuclt. It still pulls 5th at 1500 rpm and drives away comfortably but I need to compare this against my mates GSs to see if I have lost too much. Time will tell.
As a postscript to this tale. As I went over the crest and dropped into the dip in the road at 130 (butt clenching time) something whacked me in the back then clipped the back of my helmet. Slammed the brakes on and stopped. Got off the bike, top box still there, oh bugger, where's me pillion seat gone. I found it 20 minutes later about 30 meteres in the woods alongside the road. It must have hit every damn tree on its way into the woods. Bugger, blast and damn, one shagged pillion seat.
Going faster is getting expensive.
Must go faster III due in about two weeks, speed loons stay tuned.
My thoughts were, lets try it the other way around. RS inlet tubes on the GS for more top end. Motorwork supplied some secondhand ones off the shelf. The overall diameter is much bigger than the GS ones by approx 6mm. They are also shorter, extending into the air box by only about 20mmm. They look big an mean.
So, after fitting a Remus Revolution can, I tried the bike..... better, much better. I then tried the RS inlet rubbers.... better again. More breating at the top end. There is a slight loss in lower midrange, but upper midrange is wayyy better.
To describe the difference. On a particular road, the bike in its previous form, with a good run out of the corner leading onto the straight, could manage 120-125 maxed out. This time, without a good run out of the corner (cos it was covered in cow shit) and just blasting it down the straight, reached 130 before it reached a major dip in the road. So it seems to work on top end.
Drive-ability was difficult to assess through the seat of the pants test. It is such a lazy engine I have always found this diffiuclt. It still pulls 5th at 1500 rpm and drives away comfortably but I need to compare this against my mates GSs to see if I have lost too much. Time will tell.
As a postscript to this tale. As I went over the crest and dropped into the dip in the road at 130 (butt clenching time) something whacked me in the back then clipped the back of my helmet. Slammed the brakes on and stopped. Got off the bike, top box still there, oh bugger, where's me pillion seat gone. I found it 20 minutes later about 30 meteres in the woods alongside the road. It must have hit every damn tree on its way into the woods. Bugger, blast and damn, one shagged pillion seat.
Going faster is getting expensive.
Must go faster III due in about two weeks, speed loons stay tuned.
Oh I do love a wind up 
....you choose 
