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BMW S1000rr
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Shift Spring only $50 |
Factory Pro's
famous BM10 BMW Shift Spring
Help fix BMW gearbox missed upshift and downshift problems. Improves shift speed and helps eliminate missed up shifts and more consistent down shifts, especially under trackday and race conditions. Decreases required Shift Kill duration by
5mm to 10ms. Barely slightly firmer lever feel. Fairly easy install - just have to remove clutch basket assembly. No case splitting required. Takes 1-2 hours. reference: stock spring and detent arm assembly |
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BMW S1000rr testing blog (read from bottom up^ - that's how it's written)
The Shift mechanism shift spring made the bike shift quicker. The gearbox shift mechanism was pretty lazy. No more missed shifts (I meant fewer missed shifts, more secure shifting and quicker).
Ahh! :-) Here's Mark Cantin's most excellent article with a lot of BMW supplied info
http://www.moto123.com/print_article.spy?artid=116129
According to BMW, too, power is the same 193 at peak with Sport, Race and Slick modes.
How it all works together
The four Mode setting allow a rider to select a set of variables according to
riding conditions, preferences and skill level.
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Mode |
Power/ Throttle Response |
DTC/ABS |
Power Freeze |
Wheelie Control |
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Rain |
153 hp, 5% |
High DTC |
38º |
5 sec before throttle is reduced |
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Sport |
193hp, 5% |
Medium DTC |
45º |
5 sec before throttle is reduced |
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Race |
193hp, no |
Light DTC |
48º |
None |
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Slick
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193hp, no |
Very Light or no DTC |
53º |
None |

Slick, Race and Sport Modes all make the same power at full throttle. Any
minor variations in power are in the industry standard 1/2% repeatability range.
If I was doing close R&D work, we could get a little tighter on the
repeatability,
Mostly, we were trying to verify what some other dyno company said - that was
that Race
Mode made 4-5 more hp than Sport Mode at full throttle.
It doesn't when power measured under load - maybe it does in a 6 second 4th gear
sweep (as if that's "real world").
Slick, Race and Sport make most "full throttle power". About 160 True hp
today.
Rain makes almost the same power up till 7000 rpm, then, about 12 hp less at
8000 rpm and around 40 hp less at 12,000 rpm.
Slick, Race and Sport modes have differing levels of traction control - based
on how far the bike is jeaned over (based on solid state gyroscopes).
That's the short answer - I think it's a bit more complex than that - as
in "can you do a burnout"? If so, in which modes?
Slick, Race and Sport make, probably, most to least, power at smaller
throttle openings.
There are other slight differences in fueling in the different modes.
When installing clutch, make sure all notches on the backside of the clutch
basket are lined up.
Telltale: if the clutch lever has more free play than before, the notches aren't
lined up.
Took airbox off - to look
Primary stack 59mm od and 54mm id.
Secondary stack about 2.25 inches
Throttle return spring too stiff
59mm od, 54mm id
about 2.25" overall height secondary stack
Still want to see if Rain, Sport, Race and Slick TC settings make more power. The local dealer said that they were told that a dealership level dyno at Leo Vince said that RACE makes 4-5 more djhp than SPORT Mode (it actually makes the same power at full throttle Sport, Race and Slick)..
Team called up and said that, according to a SoCal dealership, weird traction control function might be caused by the PC5 being wired in a way that interferes with the CAN communication stream used by the Bosch systems (which is made in Hungary, btw).
Drove a few hundred miles to our spring manufacturer yesterday afternoon. Saw a WW2 3400 hp (12,800 dynojet hp :-) B-25 at the airport near there. I have 2 hours of logged flight instruction in a B-25. Take a guess at how much fuel costs... a B-25 burns about 160 gallons per hour at $5 a gallon at low power "cruise". $800 an hour for gas.
Got home after 9pm. We hand made about 20 prototype shift springs.
Tried them today to try to dial in better shifting. Finally settled on a spring
that I first guessed wouldn't work. Just goes to show that when you "think" you
know,... you don't really know,
I have more of the springs that worked. marc@factorypro.com

"traction Control not switching" problem was potentially bypassed - Rider says roll the bike around a bit and the traction control will then change, like it's supposed to. We did, and it "straightened out and flew right", At least today,
Traction control control hexed. Worked 2 nights ago, now it won't change. Yes..... Mode push till desired mode selected. Pull clutch lever in and release. Worked 2 nights ago, but, not today...... Talked to rider.... he says try rolling the bike around sometimes made it switch.
Pulled clutch to get at shift mechanism to address shift issues on the track.
Nice. Easy. Very japanesey looking. 27mm clutch basket nut. 12 point 6mm socket
to remove detent pivot bolt.
Looks promising. Drove 200 miles out to Central Valley to make a batch of
prototype springs. Shift mech could be better.
Switching to pump premium and will test Slicks, Race, Sport, Rain Traction Control horsepower output, later.

RED = pump premium 164 true hp peak and 5 hp better midrange.
(164 True x 1.25 = 205 djhp)
Blue = Sonoco GT260 AMA spec fuel 163.3 true hp peak. (163.3 True x 1.25 =
203.75 djhp)
".7" hp is well within the 1/2% range of repeatability - so, best I'd be able to
say is that both fuels made about the same peak hp. Midrange, though - the pump
premium 91 octane, was better than the Sunoco AMA spec fuel. (and according to
AMA tuners, the Sunoco AMA spec fuel isn't as strong as pump premium)
maybe needs more or less ignition timing, using 5 gas ega and steady state
dyno as clue. Has poor co2 numbers when making best power.
Interestingly, when just looking at residual O2, the dynojet "autolink
mapping" looked ok, but according to power produced at "other than right AFR".
the engine wanted something different and was smoother and made more power under
load with different fuel amounts.
w AMA spec fuel, 163.3 true hp retuned with Arrow system and stock air filter, Traction
control off (or it dies at about 10.7k)
Was ~160 with dynojet autolink mapping.
no power light PC5 secondary box, disconnected it. Has dynojet injector
connectors with no connector locks.
PC5 is used to cut fuel to secondaries for quickshifter to kill all 8 injectors.
Rider was having trouble shifting as he was assuming that the qs was killing the
engine (but it likely wasn't).
Told mechanic to call dynojet.
turn off traction control or bike shuts off at about 10.7k rpm on EC997 dyno.
Can't get rear wheel to slip on EC997 dyno roller on dyno.
non optimal "AFR target based" mapping, too rich in more than several places
Race traction control
at 10.7k, bike burps then shuts off engine until key is switched off then back on.
PC5 installed and tuned by dj
stock engine
traction control
Race
Sport
Rain
Slick tires Mode (requires connector plug to activate)
non optimal mapping
at 10.7k, bike burps then shuts off engine until key is switched off then back on.