Glad I found this article. I found all that extra EPA BS on my Bike and from my little experience, such things always hurt performance, like on my truck that I did that Air Intake Mod and added bigger pipes. Does taking that reed off that I found on my bike help performance as well? We don't even have inspections where I live, so I'm all for taking that extra crap off if it's worth it. On the Air intake Mod, not only did I notice more power, but better gas mileage. One question on the Reed Removal; I'm not much of a mechanic; when you take the reed off and do the straight line method, do you have two straight lines, or one? Does the one line go from the valve to the Petcock, or was there another opening that had to be used? I read it twice and I maybe got mixed up with California model or something. I know it will all make sense when I get the tank out of the way and will be able to see everything. Where do you get the Caps and what size Radiator hose is that? I don't plan on doing the ball-bearing thing, do you suggest that I do? I'm sure when I get started, all of my questions will answer themselves, I just get paranoid before I start on a project like this; nothing ever goes as smoothly as planned, lol.
Disregard my question about the number of hoses, I see now reading back in the thread that you have one hose then use a valve cap