Years of racing these Bonnevilles has left me with a big hoard of parts and the knowledge about small changes that give good results. All I want to do with the new street Bonnie is to put on the Triumph off-road silencers that flow better and are reasonably quiet, change to a 790cc intake cam, and remove the noise abatement snorkel from the air box. These little changes add up to quite a bit more performance and I have the parts. Triumph makes a map for the silencer change, only, and it is closed loop at idle and adaptive at other throttle openings. The Triumph map does not consider the cam and intake changes.
There are proprietary maps and they are all open loop. I am worried about their ability to work with the highly variable gasolines we have in Oregon.
Then, there is making a new map. This takes a lot of dyno work and all sorts of $.
This would be a no-brainer with carbs. Simply a few runs on the dyno to figure out the jet changes and it is done. Is there a simple solution that I am overlooking?
The race bike will run carbs.