Air Box mod pics and valve mod

[sportrider1296]

This is some pics of the air box mod that I worked on this morning at 3 am because I became board. Man I hate when that happens! Anyway I did the usually drilling and hacking like the brock website describes and I desided to eliminate the valve on the bottom side of the box. I used a piece of the flapper valve that I remove since it is the same material as the box and melted it to the box using my hot air plastic welder from harbor freight ($29)! Or you can use a soldering iron. It was easy and eliminated a very small amount of weight. Just thought I would post for others to maybe consider. Now off to bed, tired. Any questions just ask.

[sportrider1296]

This is the bottome side where the pair valve vaccum tubing hooks up.

[NightCrawler]

I used the flapper to cover the bottom (outside) of it and used silicone to hold it in place. As backup, I used a Gatorade top and cut the rim in half so that it wouldn't stick so high up(from the size bottle shown below) to cover the hole on the inside ... again using silicone to hold it.
<img src=http://dining.cornell.edu/imagesX/C-store/gatorade.jpg>

[Got-Busa?]

Why do that when you might need that hole for a Nitrous nozzle....

[JROCK]

NICE JOB

[USMCBUSA]

I am gonna be the tard here and ask why you mod your airbox? I know I will get bashed for this but I don't know.

[sportrider1296]

Hey spigga, nice idea with the back-up top. Silicone probaly won't fail you anyway. The main reason I done this (weld the hole up) is that I got the plastic welder for x-mas and just had to try it. USMCbusa, from what I have read the air box mod is for people that have modified their bikes from stock. Meaning they have a full aftermarket exhaust systems (not slipons) usually 4-2-1 set-ups, k&n or bmc air filters, TRE, and of coarse power comanders. Basically you open up the airway that feeds this beast of a motor. Take out your air filter and see how small the rectangular hole is that the intake is. You will see that there is a triangular shaped area, where the rectangular hole is glue or welded in. This is what comes out. In conclusion, you are going to double the size of the air opening that feeds your busa. This results in more "potential for power" if you have the right amount of fuel to use it. I will let you guys know when I test to give my opinion, raining outside 100%

[Aquaman]

I am gonna be the tard here and ask why you mod your airbox? I know I will get bashed for this but I don't know.
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I'll give ya a little back up....
I have no clue either......

[sportrider1296]

What don't you understand about the airbox mod?

[badboysbailagnt]

why do you get rid of the flapper valve

[sportrider1296]

You do not have to remove the flapper valve, but if you cut out the box around it then it basically is useless from there on. You shave a few ounces without the flapper and valve, but you would never miss it.

[badboysbailagnt]

so you did it to clean it up in there sounds like me

oil cooler dont need no stinkin oil cooler lol

[Leo]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (sportrider1296 @ Jan. 17 2006,10:26)]In conclusion, you are going to double the size of the air opening that feeds your busa. *This results in more "potential for power" if you have the right amount of fuel to use it.

I believe that is why he did it...