I've been messing around with the air box lately trying to open it up a bit to let it breathe more easily, so i thought I'd share some pics of the result in here.
I initially just cut away the entire bottom and back walk facing the block and the cylinders, but then realized that it would suck in hot air from the cooling fins. At that point i really thought I had screwed it up, but realized that if could find a black plastic jerrycan, i could but out and glue in a new back plate, and use some of the curved areas, like the handle on it, to make some nice radii inside and along edges of whatever i made. So a new back wall was made with a big radius at the top going inward. Having the entire bottom cut out, where those rubber inlets were, i made some roundings on the forward and backward facing edges to let the air curve nicely up into the box. Or at least that's the theory. I extended the back wall downward as far as possible to prevent as much hot air as possible from entering from the cylinder fins.
So here is the result. It may not be pretty, but i think it'll work pretty good. I got a K&N filter to go on there too along with V&H Powershots and a PC3.
Let me know what you think.
I initially just cut away the entire bottom and back walk facing the block and the cylinders, but then realized that it would suck in hot air from the cooling fins. At that point i really thought I had screwed it up, but realized that if could find a black plastic jerrycan, i could but out and glue in a new back plate, and use some of the curved areas, like the handle on it, to make some nice radii inside and along edges of whatever i made. So a new back wall was made with a big radius at the top going inward. Having the entire bottom cut out, where those rubber inlets were, i made some roundings on the forward and backward facing edges to let the air curve nicely up into the box. Or at least that's the theory. I extended the back wall downward as far as possible to prevent as much hot air as possible from entering from the cylinder fins.
So here is the result. It may not be pretty, but i think it'll work pretty good. I got a K&N filter to go on there too along with V&H Powershots and a PC3.
Let me know what you think.
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