Originally Posted by Gas_Up_Lets_Go (Post 83954)

I guess it depends on where you ride, but doing this would lower your wading depth, and I think I'd be concerned with water ingress in heavy rain, it does stream acrosss the side panel - when it's biblical, like it usually is up here!

I did it to my TTR, gave loads more response, but I lost too much depth in water, so I replaced it with the stock one.

Originally Posted by tripletom (Post 84120)

... and I didn't want to cut the snorkel about "just in case" ;) so after some shed searching I found some old fuel line and vacuum hose.
These were formed into doughnut shapes and a bit of insulation tape applied to ensure things stayed as they were-
I dropped the filter back in and placed the doughnut over the top then sat the plate in place before tightening everything back up-
Job done, without damaging anything and without spending 46Euros on an OTR plate :)

Originally Posted by tripletom (Post 84182)

... I'll wait to open it up again til I can modify the fuelling with a PCIII or similar

Originally Posted by tenere doug (Post 84192)

No worries Tom! Like you I'm waiting for Powercommander to sort out a PCIII for the Z, just to make sure it's running at it's best, but I've done a few miles now with the snorkel off, and it does feel better.

Originally Posted by Biking (Post 85066)

I'm also running a DNA filter without the snorkel. It runs very smooth. But I don't know if the mixture is to lean. Maybe Kev knows? There is a sensor in the exhaust. If the motor is running to lean this should correct it?

Originally Posted by josephau (Post 83930)

Call me completely untechnical and my physics didn't score very well in high school. I remember one said that if I have such K&N airfilter or any mods that "improves" the airflow, therefore, the fuel consumption would increase, 'more air burns more fuel', that's the logic. I thought about it a lot, and came to speculate that first we need oxygen, spark, and combustible materials to make a fire. If the spark is constant, then the amount of oxygen and combustible materials needed should be the same, so if more oxygen, less combustible materials needed, and vice versa. So wouldn't more airflow actually decrease the amount of required combustible materials which are gasoline in our cases here, assuming we hold the size of the fire or in our cases the power from the engine constant? Why I hold the power from the engine constant, because the fuel injection senses how much fuel the engine needs in order to keep the idling speed at 1500rpm on one hand, and the presumably optimal amount of fuel depending on the throttle position on the other. The fact is I have tried both the stock and K&N filter, and I have found the stock filter actually eats more gas than the K&N filter, but I just couldn't quite get my head around it. On power commander, am I correct that its main function is to manage the smoothness of power delivery but not so much on increasing power at any rpm?

Originally Posted by tripletom (Post 83942)

I was thinking about the air filter set up on the Ten last night after adjusting the chain. The plastic side panel I can't see being hideously expensive, and the DNA stage 2 filters for the X and R's is basically a sidepanel with a filter in to allow more air in, so it wouldn't be too hard to make a sidepanel with some filter in to give more air surely?