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Holodeck Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 144 Seattle	Side mount air filter 08/27/07 at 11:30:26 I have seen a few pictures of air filters sticking out the side of the Savage. Anyone know how this is done?
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #1 - 08/27/07 at 12:27:31 Some of those I've seen used rubber plumbing elbows from a hardware store.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28644 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #2 - 08/27/07 at 12:44:08 Cool!... I'm always impressed whenever bike customization enters the plumbing section of the hardware store. My bike has custom pvc pipe, a luggage lock, a kitchen drawer handle, a helmet visor, a vcr lid, and a chopped up street sign. Take that Kuryakyn!
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Strafford_Guy Full Member Offline 96 in progress Posts: 238 Strafford, NH Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #3 - 08/27/07 at 15:55:52 hey serowbot can you clearify what is where? Kuryakyn has nothing on you.
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Re: Side mount air filter
Reply #4 - 08/27/07 at 17:34:42

Let me see.....
1/2" pvc pipe spacers for seat lift 2"tall, and for a pair of spacers to get the rear fender height right. A luggage lock on the throttle cable to work as a tripmeter, a kitchen drawer handle behind the seat that I clip my little tool bag to, a helmet visor over the headlight as a mini fairing, a vcr lid, shaped to the rear of the seat, covers the ugly underseat area from the rear and a chopped up street sign was used to make my license plate/ taillight mount.
I also have a fanny pack mounted behind the helmet visor/mini fairing to hold misc. stuff.
Oh... and a hockey puck clamped to the kickstand for a bigger footprint on soft ground.

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Starlifter Serious Thumper Offline It only snows seven months of the year here. Posts: 3746 Eastern Michigan Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #5 - 08/27/07 at 18:13:55 How did you clamp the hockey puck to the kickstand pad? Sounds like a good idea.
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Reply #6 - 08/27/07 at 18:39:08

Starlifter,

Used a muffler-clamp type U-bolt over the kickstand foot, drilled holes in the puck for the bolts to go through, a piece of metal for a bottom plate, routed out an inset in the bottom of the puck , for the plate and bolts to be flush.
Sounds much more complex than it was. Took about 15 min. and a puck is about $2 or $3 bucks.

BTW my bike has 12.5" shocks so the amount of lean on the kickstand is now about like stock. For a stock bike you might consider a thinner footplate?

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Strafford_Guy Full Member Offline 96 in progress Posts: 238 Strafford, NH Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #7 - 08/27/07 at 18:49:45 serowbot, thanks for the info. Great going on the mods
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Re: Side mount air filter
Reply #8 - 08/28/07 at 04:53:25

Serowbot wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:

Starlifter,

Used a muffler-clamp type U-bolt over the kickstand foot, drilled holes in the puck for the bolts to go through, a piece of metal for a bottom plate, routed out an inset in the bottom of the puck , for the plate and bolts to be flush.
Sounds much more complex than it was. Took about 15 min. and a puck is about $2 or $3 bucks.

BTW my bike has 12.5" shocks so the amount of lean on the kickstand is now about like stock. For a stock bike you might consider a thinner footplate?

That's cool. I didn't even notice the puck... and I have one on mine too (though I actually drilled the foot of the sidestand to mount mine) as well as the 12.5" shocks.

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Reply #9 - 08/29/07 at 01:01:26

I need to do the "hockey puck" mod on the 99 because of the extra height and lean caused by my 4" over fork legs. 8)

Opps... sorry I've contributed to taking this thread farther off course of the "side mount air filter." A subject I've been meaning to breech myself at some point, but with a bit more complication. You'll understand when you read my idea...

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tuxedo Senior Member Offline medium pimpin. Posts: 275 Hot Springs, AR Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #10 - 08/29/07 at 16:53:29 schedule 40 PVC.
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theikeman Senior Member Offline Live each day as if it were your last ... Posts: 344 Gibsonton in South Florida Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #11 - 08/29/07 at 21:03:24 tuxedo wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08: schedule 40 PVC. http://w2.bikepics.com/pics/2007%5C07%5C01%5Cbikepics-949512-800.jpg Nice Job, any rain issues? Thanks Ike
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28644 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #12 - 08/29/07 at 21:53:30 My bad on the thread highjack... I really do admire the creativity on using the elbow joint, it's a really cool idea! Is the foam filter a custom fabrication or an aftermarket for something else? Doe's it get in the way of your leg at all? Thanks for posting the pics. Do you have any from further back to show the whole bike?
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Re: Side mount air filter
Reply #13 - 08/30/07 at 09:12:16

Serowbot wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:

My bad on the thread highjack... I really do admire the creativity on using the elbow joint, it's a really cool idea!

Is the foam filter a custom fabrication or an aftermarket for something else? Doe's it get in the way of your leg at all?

Thanks for posting the pics. Do you have any from further back to show the whole bike?

Foam filter is a Uni Filter. On the web for around $15 shipped.

Leg rides over it, so I don't have rain issues.

At stops I do have to hold my leg a bit differently on the right side, but it's not a big move nor uncomfortable.

I used schedule 40, took my calipers to the store and got an elbow, a female-female coupling, and a piece of pipe. Cut the pipe to slide into the fittings so they butt against each other. Cut the stock airbox fitting and clamped it onto the elbow. Clamped the Uni on the coupling, and voila!

About 30 bux total, including foam filter oil.

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T Mack 1 - FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline sold 2001 LS650 for a 1986 XLH1100 Posts: 2919 Emmaus,Pa Gender:	Re: Side mount air filter Reply #14 - 08/30/07 at 11:06:48 One step more, A Y-adapter off the carb, then into 2 U's going into veloctiy stacks pointing forward. This should get you pass sucking in hot air (isn't it cool air = go faster? ?), and add a little Ram scoop affect.
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