Photos for dlhoulton!

[Yama Mama]

Do to the fact I could not successfully send these photos on email to dlhoulton; I am posting them here.

Here are the photos of the air filter covers Ron made.

He has done some changes recently to them. Excuse the last few photos, the bike dirty. (Yuck)

 

Yama Mama

[SaltyDawg]

That looks pretty sharp. How hard was it to do?

[Yama Mama]

Well once Ron figured out what he could use to make it, and design it to work with the stock air filters it was not too hard.

 

Yama Mama

[dlhoulton]

The top pictures look great. You can click on them and they will enlarge. The last three won't let you do anything.

Now,you told me to guess what he used to make them and I have no idea. So don't keep me in suspence!!!!!!!

Thanks for the pictures and the work you've done to get them posted.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Dennis

[Yama Mama]

Clue it is a GM part.

 

Yama Mama:8:

[Kregerdoodle]

Clue it is a GM part.

 

Yama Mama:8:

 

 

Looks to be the Mirror housings from a GM truck ( They do have a purpose )

[dlhoulton]

Yama Mama,

Can you ask Ron, with such a large opening around the filter and using that much filter area does the bike run rich or lean. I've been told that Yamaha spent long hours in R&D developing the air filter housings and the 1 1/2 inch intake hole was what was needed to make the bike run just right. Anything larger would cause the bike to run rich or lean (can't remember which) and that you would have to re-jet and shim stuff. I asked the question sometime ago (how much CFM does the RSV stock filter and housing take in and did not get the results). So I called K&N and they told me that the filters they sell for the Venture and RSTD had a CFM of 350 (not exact). So my guessing being that the K&N are high flow the stock must be around 300. I was thinking of using something like this:

 

 

http://www.racetep.com/weber/300series.jpg

CFM: Cubic Feet per Minute 300 CFM SERIES

All part numbers commencing RF3

Eg: RF304s

Filter Dimension Chart

Pictures of installed Filters For SU and Stromberg Carbs

 

$49.00 ea Buy It Now

 

 

My local dealer said it could not be done without rejeting and they don't make jet kits for RSV and it would be expensive if they did and if the Venture was not rejetted it could cause damage to bike!!! Also it would loose tork in eather the high or low end??? I am not looking for high performance just something to give a unique look to the Venture. I should also note that I have put on the RK pipes with stage three mode (that is how they came to me) just for the sound.

Thanks,

Dennis

Edited December 24, 2008 by dlhoulton

[Yama Mama]

All I can say is our bike does not run rich or lean as far as I know. We have seen no change in the performance and we also have the RK pipes on ours too.

Last long trip we got 46 mpg.. Runs great and we have 46000 miles on it now.

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