air box, or no air box

[northshore]

I have an 03 banshee, fmf pipes, k&n with no lid, cool head, 19cc domes, and +4 timming. and was wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of running no air box. I ride mostly sand, but once in awile i do ride in the dirt and through semi wet conditions.

[cdwood37]

I personally would run k&n clamp ons with outerwears, the outerwears are water proof and you will get better airflow, I think you can get the whole kit for about 100 bucks with the outerwears.

[hittintrees srh]

I use k&n pod filters-but i dont ever ride when its wet-and i ride 90% sand

 

there suposed to give a little more power - some people would say otherwize

[Hilarious]

I can attest to the fact that the engine breathes better with

the pod filters. I would not run them if you run in wet conditions.

They also make it way quicker and easier to jet your carbs too.

[joker149999]

i run with no air box, buti have outerware's and clean my filter's all the time. more air more power

[pipebomb]

running airboxs here. would like to lose them but it tends to get a bit soggy where I ride. and steam crossings are murder on the intake tract without them. what cha gonna do.

[Wicked98Shee]

i run airbox's on both my shee's, i would like to run with clamp-ons and ditch the airbox. but sometimes we have to cross a creek, and the outerwears are not water proof. if they are then why does it let water thru it when ya rinse it after washing it? they do filter the most of the dirt out of the water that get on em, but you still ingest water into your filter and engine. i could be wrong, but i wont risk my engine.

[sheefreak]

If you run through any water at all on a normal basis, I would stick w/whatcha got. You get pretty good airflow w/an open box. You aren't going to see enough of a difference on stock carbs by changing to pods to outway your quad bogging down and running like shit for a minute after every puddle you hit.

[ellison445]

NO airbox, Toomey 2-1 setup

[MILO]

pd foam filters - no lid. we hit some water and creek crossings time to time, but nothing over the box. haven't had any problems yet with no lid. just clean it frequently. usually just the outer filter is dirty, the inner one is usually good.

Edited April 10, 2006 by MILO

[ogre03]

I run toomey's 2-1 and I ride all kinds of conditions with no problems. Granted I don't cross deep water (at least not deep enough to get up to my filter). I'm happy with it though. It's more up and out of the way than the clamp on (pod) filters.

[mnduner]

everyone whos got a trinity and pod filter what are u running. i checked k&n and have read that some people run them with a 20" angle and some run strait filters. what length filter are you using? and with or without angle