fair enough. I didnt think you would achieve enough of a vacuum back there to cause running problems, especially if you have a small fairing due to the bike being SF/naked. I think im gunna run my snorkels up forward further, to keep that nice cold air intake setup working the way it was meant to. Im gunna be running a pair of 4.5" offroad lights as headlights, and i was thinking of making some ductwork to grab air from under the center of the 2 lights and run it back to the snorkels.

 

If your thinking of making it a ram-air system, you are in for one hell of a headache. It took the local bike shop forever to tune my ram-air system, since I couldn't. It took them 2 weeks working 3-4 hours a day. And then when I went and upgraded my exhaust it made the headaches start all over again. So far I just removed most of my ram-air system so the bike could run right. So now it runs rich as all hell, but when rammed it was too lean above 65mph with the new head-back exhaust. The worse thing is dealing with the temp changes, below 50 outside and I had to pull the tubes so the bike would even run. So I'm thinking of junking the system, since it is more trouble than its worth now that I modded the bike further.

NO, I will not sell it, it seriously takes forever to tune and an exhaust gives more power increase.

A little backgorund I've had my ram-air system for 7-8 years now and it worked awesome during the summer. When it started to cool down I had to start blocking the vents until it got cold enough I had to remove the tubes. So in the spring/fall/early winter I had to play with different foams stuck in the ducts and disconnecting the ducts to get it to run correctly. I had the tubes ran up to the vents on either side of the headlight, fyi, you can get the tubesat lowes or home depot, same with the different cells grades of foam.

For the win, just do what Sirr1and f3 racer say.

 

just the kinda info I was lookin for... we have a bike salvage place close by. I will be on the hunt for the risers. Thanks!

 

I wast gunna go for ram air, i know the difficulties involved on carburated engines. My father and i set up a drag snowmobile with a big ram air, was great on short runs, but he melted the pistons on a trip (going 100+).
I was merely thinking of emulating what the stock set up does, supplying the snorkels with plenty of nice, cool air. even if that means giving the pressure somewhere to bleed off.

 

Since I'm in the same boat as the OP (this thread got completely stolen), where do people who don't use a front fairing put all of their wiring/fuse box? I'm starting my wiring tomorrow and if there's no real response I guess I'll just have to extend/cut down wires and find a good spot to hide them all.

 

I stashed my wires under the tank in front of the air box.
I screwed the fuse box to the frame over the left air hole and ran the wires through the hole.
Hope this helps!