Looking for some input here. Since I started fightering my bike there have always been a few things that bugged me about nakid Kats. One being the tank gap which has been addressed. The other is the factory plastic air box. Of course pods would fix that but at an expense of tuning.
Original thoughts were to build and aluminium air box that mimics the factorys. However I was unsure of how it would look and therefor never went thru with it. I recently saw a picture of this exact thing, in the Streetfighter Tank Bottoms thread, and now I'm ready to give it a go.
Of course the material would be aluminum sheet, all joints TIG welded, and the design would be very close to the factory. It would still use the factory air filter and so on. However what I planed to do was simply cut plate to the desired size and weld it up. I know the factory box is square-ish but all its corners are rounded.
My question is:
Will that small, seemingly insignificant difference with the corners, effect the bike in a negative way? I know the air flow in the box will change slightly but will it change too much? Has anybody had a simular idea or have some good thoughts/ideas on this?
Thanks
Original thoughts were to build and aluminium air box that mimics the factorys. However I was unsure of how it would look and therefor never went thru with it. I recently saw a picture of this exact thing, in the Streetfighter Tank Bottoms thread, and now I'm ready to give it a go.
Of course the material would be aluminum sheet, all joints TIG welded, and the design would be very close to the factory. It would still use the factory air filter and so on. However what I planed to do was simply cut plate to the desired size and weld it up. I know the factory box is square-ish but all its corners are rounded.
My question is:
Will that small, seemingly insignificant difference with the corners, effect the bike in a negative way? I know the air flow in the box will change slightly but will it change too much? Has anybody had a simular idea or have some good thoughts/ideas on this?
Thanks
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