Triumphrat

dazco · 08-26-2009, 03:28 PM

....to cut that lip off the air filter bracket to enlarge the intake? Come on.....somebody give it a shot....i'll just watch.

Birdy68 · 08-26-2009, 06:30 PM

When you do things like this, should you get a remap done?
If so - How? Who knows what to set at what level?

Sorry far the nOOb questions - but my fist bikes were with good old carbs, jets, and what-not. These new EFI bikes are worrying me! I can't tinker as much as I'd like too...

dazco · 08-26-2009, 07:29 PM

Shhhhhh ! *cough* whydoyouthinki'mtryingtogetsomeonetodoit *cough*

Birdy68 · 08-26-2009, 07:43 PM

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Lovely whether today...

RacenJason · 08-26-2009, 09:05 PM

In the old days all you had to do was rip both carbs apart and try 6 or 8 different jets in each one, have you own dyno handy and boom 2 or 3 days and your done.

Rayzor61 · 08-26-2009, 10:08 PM

OK it's done. I did it yesterday. It's just 6 phillip head screw holding the baffle on to the bottom of the seat. Now it breathes like the Marlboro Man or a salty old sea captain on a ventilator. Stronger, throatier sound but no performance gains notable untill I get the performance filter.......no tab cutting yet.....1 step at a time.......

Thatch · 08-26-2009, 10:13 PM

Having trouble picturing what you've done... if you get a chance could you snap a shot?

mustang66man · 08-26-2009, 10:23 PM

The air tunnel that funnels the air into the filter is a piece that is screwed to the bottom of the seat leaving undirected air flow to the filter.

mustang66man · 08-26-2009, 10:45 PM

I've looked at the air tunnel under the seat a few times, and I believe that the fins/baffles are there to help channel the air that flows under the seat into the filter. I don't know if there would be any real gain by removing it. We need to engineer a real ram air system for the bird that could be mapped and tested. Going to fuel injection is a whole new game.

dazco · 08-26-2009, 10:48 PM

I wasnt talking about that. The way i see it, airflow is never improved unless the bottleneck in the system is opened. And i don't think thats the seat bottom is the bottleneck. With a free flo filter at least i believe it's the part i was talking about which is the part you take off to remove the filter. If you look at it there is a lip that goes down and into the filter a 1/2 inch or so. (from what i recall....haven't been there for a week or 2) It makes the opening into the filter probably 20-25% smaller, and trimming that lip off might help. By the looks of the seat bottom i don't think there is any restriction there, at least not nearly as much as the part i'm talking about. I may be wrong but thats the feeling i got looking at it.