does anyone know where to find...

[Anonymous]

open ended cone filters like the individual pod filters. I want the end to be open and not sealed with the chrome plate like the rest i have seen. Here is a picture of one from a car to give you an idea of what I want. Of course it would be wat too big.

It is linked from ebay so I guess it will ony work until the auction is over.
Sorry I do not know how to resize.

 

[HiSPL]

Are you trying to make a cold air intake? Just curious.........Why do you want to rice up your GS any way? :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Ok, It's a JAPANESE bike so it's already rice, by definition. Do you have pods on your bike? Have you ever seen a bike with pods? Was it 'Riced Up' as you put it?

I want pods, I just want a certain style of pods. My Topic Title was ' Does anyone know where to find one of these' not ' Does anyone want to share their opinion about what I am doing to MY bike'

I am sorry for the hostility, I just really hate it when any amount of customizing that adds flash or sound is refered to as 'RICE'

Are glasspacks on an nineteen eighty- something mustang RICE? What about neons on a Forties Hot Rod, is that rice? No it's considered cool. Then a kid who buys a Honda because it's the 'New age HOT ROD' and does the same thing, all of a sudden it's rice. Even if I was putting a CAI on my bike how would that be rice, it's for performance. A shopping cart handle spioler that extends 12 inches above the roof on a Ford Escort is RICE. Not an intake mod that adds 5hp, better gas mileage, and a faster rev up time.

For performance sake you all know damn well that if suddenly BORLA or NOS or ACCELL discovered a 50 HP boost could be made from duct taping a banana to your gas tank Chiquita Stock would go through the roof.

 

[frosty5011]

For performance sake you all know damn well that if suddenly BORLA or NOS or ACCELL discovered a 50 HP boost could be made from duct taping a banana to your gas tank Chiquita Stock would go through the roof.

Why would anyone want to "banana up" their GS that way? :? :? :? :? :?

Come on, now. If you post a message on a 'forum', you're going to get opinions as well as advice. Some of it good, some of it bad - it's up to you to decide which ones to take seriously and which ones to ignore.

 

[Anonymous]

i never saw pod filters for a bike like that, get some k&n oval filters...make a wing and put a R sticker as well as a V-tech sticker

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah it was late and I always get frustrated when people automatically use RICE to describe something that is customizing.

 

[HiSPL]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Great rant....... Hahaha
Sorry if I offended. Didn't mean to. I was just curious if you were going to make a CAI. Yeah I do have pods, and a 4-1 with a custom baffle that I built. Its funny cuz all the ricers turn their heads when I ride by. My bike sounds like it has a coffee can exhaust, they look expecting to see a daewoo type R :lol: but they see my little 750 cruisin by.

Oh yeah, a riced up jap bike was an attempt at sarcasm. Sorry if it didn't convey. :lol:

 

[AOD]

is the actual inlet for the filter open to the air? so it sucks in half filtered air and half unfiltered air?

if that's the case, drill out the back of a set of Emgo filters. i have 4, new in the box still, on my table. i bet they can be drilled out.

~Adam

 

[Anonymous]

Nope, never seen those for a bike. As for questions about the air being filtered - yes it is - the inside of the filter is cone shaped and sealed. This just gives more filter area for an increased air flow. The K+N's work very well as it is.

I doubt you will find them for a bike anyway - but good luck trying.

 

[Anonymous]

rice is just a general term for a japanese soupped up car.
boat is an old huge car
sleeper is a car that looks stock, or slow, but is fast
wagon is a station wagon
how many doors does a chicken coupe have?
2 or it would be a chicken sedan...

 

[AOD]

chicken sedan would have 4. :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

thats right, if it had 4 doors, it would be a chicken sedan....

 

[HiSPL]

boat is an old huge car

I prefer prairie schooner or land yacht :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

thats right, if it had 4 doors, it would be a chicken sedan....

Original VW Beetle's are called Type 1 sedans, yet only have two doors. Wrap yourself around that one!
I vaguely remember my body shop class teacher saying something like the difference between a coupe and sedan is in the B-Pillar, or lack thereof.

 

[Anonymous]

Memphis, TN: Love your column and your opinions - especially since they often agree with my own. In several places you refer to the new VW beetle as a sedan. I thought the term sedan meant car with 4 doors and coupe meant car with 2 doors. Am I wrong?

James Healey: Thanks; very kind (and insightful).

There's legitimate disagreement about sedan vs. hardtop, but it's not because of number of doors. There are two-door sedans just as there are four-door sedans. A coupe, by definition, has just two doors, though Saturn's perfected that with it's 'three-door coupe.' A coupe also generally tries to be a 'hardtop' in appearance if not in reality. A hardtop, strictly speaking, has no center post between the front and back windows,so that if you put the windows down you have a big opening on the side uninterrupted by that roof piller (called the B pillar; windshield pillar is the A pillar, rear pillar is C, on to D for the back one on an SUV). It's the Beetle's thick B pillar that makes it seem more sedan than coupe to me. Also, VW refers to it as a sedan.

And while we're on purity of terms... Roadster means a car with a removable top, indeed, meant to be used without the top most of the time. The original Viper soft-top was a roadster; the Miata wasn't and isn't.

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, I actually remembered something from high school.

 

[Anonymous]

is the actual inlet for the filter open to the air? so it sucks in half filtered air and half unfiltered air?

if that's the case, drill out the back of a set of Emgo filters. i have 4, new in the box still, on my table. i bet they can be drilled out.

~Adam

The air is filtered, I want the open end because as the air gets sucked in it makes a really nice low tone at WOT. I have one on my car and it sounds great. I guess this does make it a little ricey, just a little. I have a 4 into 1 with a Two Brothers Racing can and it sounds beautiful. Everytime I ride to work no one can beleive how old my bike is because it sounds so good.

 

[terry]

I want pods, I just want a certain style of pods. My Topic Title was ' Does anyone know where to find one of these' not ' Does anyone want to share their opinion about what I am doing to MY bike'quote]

Ha ha, brilliant "dummy spit" mate, geez, I'm learning so much from my cousins across the pond, I had no idea what "ricing" meant, makes me laugh how adding mostly US made aftermarket items to a jap bike is referred to as "ricing it up", something Irish about that....... (oops, sorry, my apologies to the Irish)

Anyway, keep that indignant vitreole going mate, good to see a real "hissy fit" in print on this site once in awhile, haven't seen anything like this since Scotty accidently said something about the women in Finland, I think it was.

Okay, gotta go try that banana tip, I'd just about finished the "ram air conversion on my ST, but had a bit of a set back this afternoon when the wife demanded her vacuum cleaner hose back, then she got cranky when she realised I'd epoxyed a funnel in one end, to act as an air scoop. Ah well, I was having problems cutting a nice round hole in the seat so I could feed the hose direct into the airbox anyway..............

You don't think these sort of performance mods (ram air/tank banana etc) are too "ricey" do you?

 

[Dink]

DJ what you need to is a shop with a K&N catalogue.
Now I am assuming you wish to retain the plenum chamber behingd the carbs and replace the air filter housing with a K&N cone style filter?
If so what you need to do is measure the size of the plenum neck at the joint to the air filter housing and then take that measurememnt to the K&N catalogue and select an appropriate filter, paying attention to the free space you have available between frame rails etc.
Dink
I have just ordered an single filter sock for my Kat, unfortunately not the cone style you are after or I would have just given you the part number.