Remote Air Intake

[ferball]

I put a remote air intake on my bike today. The idea has been mentioned on many posts and most are much neater than mine but I figured I would post pictures and results. There was no noticeable improvement in performance, but was not expecting any, however it did change the sound a bit which was my intent. It was not much quieter, but the sound was lower, almost like it had more bass, so it was a nicer sound less like a chainsaw more like a motorcycle.

The set up itself was pretty simple I used the stock air filter and dremeled a huge hole in it, then I used an old inner tube to connect a piece of hose and a soda bottle, I left the stock air filter element in place, I may add a secondary filter element in the soda bottle but I did not have anything kicking around so it will have to wait.

 

[corgi1]

If you place a cloth (t-shirt )over the end then a flat pan bottom so that the air passes through the edge ,,how does its tone sound?

 

[ferball]

Just an update I found that one of those swimming noodles cut to length fit into the soda bottle nicely. So I wrapped it in some cloth and jammed it in there and it quiets it down noticeably.

 

[Venice Motor Bikes]

Doing something like that also lowers the performance of the engine, because now the engine has to work harder to pull in the air through that length of hose.

 

[BarelyAWake]

...if the ID of the hose is significantly larger then the throat of the carby there'd be little to no impact on performance, it'd hafta be awful long and/or smaller than the carb to effect it. I did a few with & without runs on my schwinn as I was kinda worried about that too

 

[ferball]

Seems to be running fine, but I may take it off just to test if there is a performance issue. I do like the new sound it makes though