performance upgrades

[schrader7032]

Check out these articles on the following website - 9, 10, 31, 53A, 77.

http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/techindex.htm

Look things over...you might find other subjects.

I prefer a stock setup so I have no experience. But things that seem like would help a bike (some with limited results):

- dual disk ATE front brake
- dual plugging
- high compression pistons
- slide carbs
- 336 cam
- lightened flywheel
- post '80 clutch carrier (this requires some major changes, probably the transmission)
- top triple tree billet brace
- lower fork brace
- additional frame cross bracing (ala what was done to the '76 R90S that Reg Pridmore ran to win the Superbike competition)
- exhaust
- intake (K&N filters; personnally I don't like this...I think BMW knew what they were doing)

Do you have access to a Clymer maintenance manual? A lot of these things are mentioned at the back of the manual as performance improvements. I have an old dilapidated copy of the manual.

Kurt in S.A.

[VBMWMO]

has anyone heard of performance upgrades for 70's boxers? Would like to give my 78 R80/7 a boost. Other than bigger bore, anything else? Air intake seems like a starting point.