Dude, I now have.... 10 motorcycles, 7 that run. I need to get rid of some. I don't ride this one, I its gotta go.
Food for thought....why are stock airbox systems and setups like this perferred on two strokes over straight pod filters? Well the principle of a two stroke is based on exhaust reversion pulling in the fresh intake charge into the combustion chamber and holding it there. If you have pod filters the reversion will bounce against the back plate of pod (the round plate at the top of the filter) and then reverse the direction of reversion pushing some of the intake charge back out the exhaust. On a street bike the effect is negligible but on highly tuned drag bikes and snowmobiles the effect can cause a break down of the barrier layer and eventually a hole in the piston due to the lean condition. On high performance two strokes like the kawasaki triple pod filters often make the carbs harder to tune partly due to this condition. If you have to run pods the best to run ar the tapered since the top plate is the smallest and the filter dampens most of the reversion.
Nope. That air filter setup is available through Pro-Flo.
Little too flash for me (I hate chrome), but very nice. Would be fun to launch down a dragstrip. You can get a reliable 60hp out of the RD350 engines...
What he said. When the reed valves close (piston going down in cylinder), the air that was traveling through the carb can stop dead and/or be reflected back. The individual K&N pod filters with the end caps can reflect this back pressure back into the carb, causing a double carburation. So in a certain rpm range, you get a very rich condition. Makes the bike very difficult to jet if you're trying to lean out the rich condition and have it run fat enough everywhere else. The big single fliter is larger enough to not reflect much of anything. Plus it prevents birds and very small rocks from entering the engine.
