cost of air filter

[northwind]

Originally Posted by TSM

I was working on a ZXR750 that the garage because they could not get an original airbox decided to put pod filters on, the darn thing would not idle at anything lower than 3k and also would not start easly. I changed everything back to stock eventualy and it all started to run smoothly again. Air boxes are designed to do several things that pod filters dont, slow the air down and make the air flow non turbulant amongst other things, without this you are more prone to problems in the cold as carb icing will be easier or will not work efficently though the rev range. (well this is part of what SidSquid said, mabey he will explain it again).

Yup. SVs have been tried and tested with big pods though, and work pretty well. Slightly less even fuelling at idle in sidewinds, apparently Plus generally being fiddly to set up, and needign mods past what a standard filter would need. As far as airflow, it's apparently indistinguishable from unfiltered