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Author Topic: Swingarm Interchangeability and spoke wheels  (Read 7819 times)

Milo_357

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Re: Swingarm Interchangeability and spoke wheels
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2011, 07:05:21 PM »
Seriously, is there an advantage to removing the airbox, fitting filters straight to the carbs, and re-routing the starter wiring???

Offline steve hawkins

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Re: Swingarm Interchangeability and spoke wheels
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2011, 02:09:16 AM »
Not really in my experience.

What we need is someone who can rolling road an airbox equiped bike and then do the same with the same bike with pod filters and any necessary jetting updates and see what we get.

SO it is just asthetics and minimal weight loss.

Cheers
Steve Hawkins R100 (that wants to be an R65)

Milo_357

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Re: Swingarm Interchangeability and spoke wheels
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2011, 09:01:47 AM »
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Not really in my experience.

SO it is just asthetics and minimal weight loss.

Cheers

But Steve, I thought you were all ABOUT asthetics and minimal weight loss!  :D

Offline steve hawkins

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Re: Swingarm Interchangeability and spoke wheels
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2011, 10:09:04 AM »
You have not seen the size of my stomach............Middle age spread is not the word for it :(
Steve Hawkins R100 (that wants to be an R65)

Mjolinar

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Re: Swingarm Interchangeability and spoke wheels
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2011, 09:10:43 PM »
Steve, I like the way it looks without the airbox. Does the breather on the back of the cover plate just vent the crankcase? I wonder if there is a way to still route the crankcase gasses to the carbs?

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Re: Swingarm Interchangeability and spoke wheels
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2011, 09:38:55 AM »
No, unless you piped the crank case pick-off directly into the filters....just a thought
Steve Hawkins R100 (that wants to be an R65)