Oily air filter

Hint: FILTER.

What do you think it's supposed to do?

 

Whinging Courier wrote:

A pair of double filters flow much better than singles:
http://www.knfilters.com/search/univdualstroval.aspx

 

You'll need to jet the carbs and have them set up properly to get the
engine to run right with those fitted. If you don't you might melt a
piston by running too weak. Seperate K&Ns are infamously crap in the
rain, too - give an effect much like running on choke, for a bit -
then you come to a stop and stay there until the road dries out.

 

Bellmouths. The only real solution.

 

I'm sure that some sort of bracket can be made to support them, and a
sort of cover, to stop them getting wet in the rain. Although in true
rat style, a cover can be bade out of old plastic drink bottles or
something.

 

As muck says, a bracket can be made, but you often see the carbs
without.

Related stuff...as you were thinking K&N...

http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/airfilter/airtest1.htm

 

Interesting, that seems to say. Keep your air box and standard air
filter. I'd argue then, that the main reasons to go to individual K&N
filters on a road bike are;

Increase intake noise[1].
**** up the fuleing.
Cause problems with riding in the rain.
Decrease filtering.
Increase servicing complexity[2].
Give your money to K&N because someone told you all on the above was
actually good.

[1]Coz everyone loves a noisy bike.
[2]You need to wash / re-oil them individually, as opposed to junking
your old filter and fitting a new one (easy peasy).

 

That's the only reason I've ever used K&N (or equiv); to cut down on
long term servicing costs, or in an unusual application.

Fwiw, the GSs filter is washable and reuseable as standard; or it was,
until it got junked, along with the carbs.

 

My CG has a washable filter too, seems to be the way of older designs it
does. What happened to those fangled electrostatic filters, are those
better?

 

Dunno; I've never encountered one on a car or bike. I've come across
them on other stuff and they certainly seem to work, but as to whether
they work better or worse than conventional filters I couldn't say.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pip amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

The same thing happened on my 50 when I put a big bore kit on it. I used
the oil tank for two stroke but pre-mixed the petrol just for good
measure and after a night wiv me burd, it did just that, ran like a
lepur and then konked out completely.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Grimly Curmudgeon amazed us all with this pearl
of wisdom:

I read that this morning. Very interesting and not quite the results I'd
have expected.