Air Box Mods

[azsnow]

I have recently purchased an airbox and rear seat cowel that I will be venting and adding some screen that I bought from Home Depot. Instruction and pics comming soon!

 

[buellxb]

Sweet! Thanks for the 'do-it-yourself' airbox mod. It's too cold to ride my Buell now, so I think I'm going to spend the winter adding mods and playing with tools in the garage.

 

[AlansHouse]

I wish I had my own garage. My bike is in a friends garage 5 miles away. I don't want to rip my bike apart in someone else's garage, especially one that they use every day.

 

[07xb12rblack]

By changing the air intake do you have to do any other adjustments?

 

[bradbolt]

where is the info on the "do-it-yourself" air box mod...i am interested in doing that as well to mine.

 

[azsnow]

With work and school, I have not had the time to complete the project. Hang in there guys, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I will get it done soon!

 

[robk]

I had a buddy buy the air box conversion from ASB for his XB12, and I took off with that design for my air box.

1) All I did was cut the factory air box up, leaving only the lip that actually sits on the filter itself.

2) Then I took a piece of aluminum sheet and traced the shape of the filter, both inside and outside.

Now this is the time consuming part

3) Cut along the lines that you traced both inside and out. Get the outside to fit around the the top of the filter flush (for looks). Cut and grind, and cut and grind some more until you get the inside to fit inside the grove of the factory lid that you cut off.

4) Go to the hardware store and find the appropriate hardware, to hold everything in place. I have the actual list from ASB at home that I can get and list up.

robk
05 XB9R

 

[Rifterzs]

robk can we get a pic of the finished look?

 

[mrdozer2you]

Come on, update us with some pics or a diagram or something. We're a bunch of dummys!!!

 

[azsnow]

OK, I am working with some fiberglass on a spare tail section I have, i will attempt and include pis on the air box soon!

 

[mrdozer2you]

Yesssssssssss [cool]

 

[robk]

Sorry guys for the WAY LATE update on the airbox, ill get pics tomarrow and post them up.

robk
05 XB9R

 

[shortyxb12r]

it looks just like the one from ASB

 

[robk]

Alright here is my modified airbox

The black plastic is the factory airbox that I cut up. The silver is an aluminum ring that I made, and the black "stuff" is seam-sealer, which holds the two together.

To be competly honest if I had it to do over again I would leave the front two snaps on the original airbox cover alone. That way it could just snap down in the stock locations with no worries about the front pulling up or anything like that, and the hardware to hold down the rear as it is.

Sorry that it took so log to post up the pics lol

robk
05 XB9R

 

[firechickenXB9R]

looks cool. but , it looks like a lot of work and for what? i have my all cut up on the sides and the great thing is that my factory latch pionts still work. makes for cleaning to K&N very easy "A SNAP". then cut some holes in the front and back.

 

[Roccodart440]

Do you guys think this is better than the factory ram air setup?

 

[yorkshirelad]

Why did you fit the ally ring? I just did this mod and fitted it straight to the top of my K&N.
It fits nice and snug with no movement and I think it looks OK.
While were on the subject of the airbox mod do I need to do anything else alongside this eg. remap or TPS reset
My bike is an 05 XB12s with a HP Corse can and the diy airbox delete and a race ECM.Will the race ECM be enough on its own?
I also intend to do the breather reroute at a later date will this change things?
Any info would be appreciated,thanks.

 

[Grrr]

Wow... (insert jaw dropping smiley here)

What's the story on that rear fender? I'm going to lay some glass to make a large rear fender/belt gaurd in one piece. Like a motoGP fender.

 

[GatorBuell]

Your race ecm will do fine with your set up but its not the optimal tune for your bike. The race ecm is set up for the Buell race can and Buell high flow filter. Its better to just put your stock ecm back on and remap it. FYI the race ecm is just a stock ecm with a rich map and some changes in the timing table, sell it and spend the money on a LC-1 wideband 02 sensor then remap you stock ecm. You will be much better off and have a better running bike. Its also fun to tinker around with and gives you an excuse to go for rides, you know to do some data logging .

 

[Stevenc150]

I also intend to do the breather reroute at a later date will this change things?

Nope. It doesn't affect airflow/temp./etc. enough to merit even a TPS reset. Just mod and ride.

(Edit: And just to add on to Gator, if all you got is the Race ECM, it can be mapped just the same as the Regular ECM. If you don't want to do it with ECMSpy, Xoptiinside.com can take care of you.)