Fast Eddie
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A topic of conversation at our last meet up was the airbox.
Wodgedodge has led the way so far with his double ended air filter mod idea and he’s looking to do a mk2 of this on his latest 961.
I was jus’ wondrin’ if others had approached it differently at all?
The ‘problems’ with the airbox are:
1. The airbox size, consensus is it’s just too small for a motor of that size (I say ‘consensus’ cos that’s what folk have said, and that’s what my gut says, but I’ve never calculated properly cos I don’t know how to).
2. The intake and / or filter is apparently too small and is a bottleneck for the intake (I say ‘apparently’ for the same reasons as above).
3. This is actually the one that struck me first; actually the intake hole is not the bottleneck because irrespective of the intake size, the intake is sucking all its air from under the seat... and how is that air getting under the seat? From around the side of the airbox, between the seat and frame tubes, etc. In other words, it is a very restrictive and torturous path the air has to take to get under the seat before the supposed restricted intake can suck it in.
So, has anyone looked into these thoughts at all? Any good ideas in people heads or on the back of a fag packet etc (note to our colonial cousins ‘fag’ means cigarette and has nothing to do with the LGBTQ agenda)?
Wodgedodge has led the way so far with his double ended air filter mod idea and he’s looking to do a mk2 of this on his latest 961.
I was jus’ wondrin’ if others had approached it differently at all?
The ‘problems’ with the airbox are:
1. The airbox size, consensus is it’s just too small for a motor of that size (I say ‘consensus’ cos that’s what folk have said, and that’s what my gut says, but I’ve never calculated properly cos I don’t know how to).
2. The intake and / or filter is apparently too small and is a bottleneck for the intake (I say ‘apparently’ for the same reasons as above).
3. This is actually the one that struck me first; actually the intake hole is not the bottleneck because irrespective of the intake size, the intake is sucking all its air from under the seat... and how is that air getting under the seat? From around the side of the airbox, between the seat and frame tubes, etc. In other words, it is a very restrictive and torturous path the air has to take to get under the seat before the supposed restricted intake can suck it in.
So, has anyone looked into these thoughts at all? Any good ideas in people heads or on the back of a fag packet etc (note to our colonial cousins ‘fag’ means cigarette and has nothing to do with the LGBTQ agenda)?