BMW K series head on A series engines

[roguese7ens]

This is one of the projects I've been sitting on for a while and hope to start sorting out soon.  I plan on installing the K1100 16 valve head I picked up a while back to my A series and as I do further research I'll post some info and hopefully get some other builders to add their experience and input.

[roguese7ens]

Here's a nice short video by Specialist Components of the UK showing their K1200 head conversion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbxEJTTehYg&feature=fvw

[jeffm5150]

I've not been able to figure out ... is the BMW K series head use fuel injection throttle bodies?  Near the end of the video he's talking about the ECU and how it transparently connects to the original harness ... I assume he's talking about an MPI harness.  Any idea?

Jeff

[roguese7ens]

Pretty sure I've read about it both ways, carbs and FI, even turbo FI.  Personally I know injected is better but I guess I'm too old school and would opt for carbs.  I've even seen the 7 and 8 port cross flow heads set up with bike carbs which looks cool and seems to work good. 
A popular option to using the bike ecu is Megasquirt which allows mapping the FI.

[jeffm5150]

I'm old school with most things as well.  Carbs, on the other hand, have always been a bit of 'black magic' for me because I didn't grow up adjusting and rebuilding them.  I've had my share of carbed vehicles, but being that I'm a software engineer, the idea of being able to adjust the FI fuel and spark mapping draws me in.  I worked for an automotive diagnostics company for a few years and made a custom tuning program for our handheld scanner specifically so I could tune the stock TBI FI on my '87 Chevy pickup.  I could see doing the same for my classic Mini.

[MiniRob]

Overall I'm sure injection could be tuned for better performance and fuel economy, probably less maintainance and tuning too.

[roguese7ens]

I'm a software engineer, the idea of being able to adjust the FI fuel and spark mapping draws me in.

You may find some on this forum interesting:
http://www.efi-minis.com/
It looks like most of the info is on the K head / Twinky. 

[MiniRob]

Looks like a lot of good info for setting up injection.  Probably very helpful in building with a BMW  head.

[roguese7ens]

The engine in this video looks like a really nice setup, though not typical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viMG-Z2cGfo