Gutted my K&N

So, I finally got round to gutting my K&N air filter ready for my re-jet over the weekend.

Half an hour with a Dremel using a cutting disc and then a sanding attachment and I'm left with this:



Not the neatest job in the world, but it will do. Having said that I did manage to just about nick the top of the wire mesh through the plastic (bottom right of photo), but thankfully no harm done:



One thing I have done is cut the rubber sealing gasket a bit short:



Will this affect the seal at all? It does come with some kind of sealing grease and is obviously screwed down, so hopefully not. Any thoughts?

Hmmm, found this thread:

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=119777

Looks like I may not even need the gasket

I'm interested to see how it goes because I have one of those in the shed. When I fitted it to my bike it barely ran and because i couldn't afford the rejet i took it out again. Its been in the shed for a while now!

Originally Posted by Serdna

I'm interested to see how it goes because I have one of those in the shed. When I fitted it to my bike it barely ran and because i couldn't afford the rejet i took it out again. Its been in the shed for a while now!

Will post up how it turns out. Been slowly stockpiling the required parts for a few weeks now so am glad it will all finally be installed