Guys. I have tried Ram air on an sv and made it run very lean, even with large jets and such like. For it to work properly, you will need to change the volume of the airbox itself. If you really want to know what has been done, and can be done, the go and have a look at SVrider. I believe that you can even get a ram air carbon airbox for the SV.
At the end of the day, youa re talking 2hp max anywhere in the range. If you want serious power gains, then you need to start looking at engine mods. At which point, id say, get a different bike.
Its all about having what you have got, set up right by people that know what they are doing. Tank spacers, in my trials, actually made the bike unstable, as the airflow got under the tank too much.
By all means experiment, but as the Mk1 SV has been around for sometime, i am sure that someone somewhere has, to coin a phrase, been there, done that.
Mike1234, will tell you, that there is only so much power you can extract from the std engine with any matter of carb/filter setups.
You have to look at the pound per BHP value 1st!
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