ducnut

Turning a beautiful golden hue.

I’m not going to sweat it, as this bike is a fair-weather-only bike. To me, polished stainless is a regular maintenance item, just like polished aluminum, and I regularly wipe down all my polished stuff with a bit of metal polish. When they get beyond that, I just happen to have the equipment necessary to keep them up, so no big deal. In central IL, one doesn’t dare drive anything nice, if they want to keep it nice, until well into the spring (my Tiger 800 is covered in corrosion, from riding through winter). The idiots at the highway dept just can’t resist getting their chloride truck out on the local highways. My buddy in the auto repair business stays busy with changing complete brake and fuel line systems, calipers, coil springs, etc, because of the chloride. It’s stupid, around here. Road salt never did the amount of damage we see, now. I wouldn’t worry about it. I’m pretty certain there’s plenty of airflow capability in the older K&N to easily support the ~105rwhp these bikes make.

IIRC, if you order direct from K&N, you’ll get the larger filter element. I speculate the smaller element is an older-style filter that some distributors may have had leftover.

I think, I’m done with it. Hopefully, I’ll get it installed this week. First pic is before and I tried to take the 2nd pic in similar light. Edit: Looks like the forum platform resized the pics, so the clarity is gone.

They should turn golden.

Pedestal-mounted. But, yes, a dedicated buffer.

This is what I have going on with my header. Polish up!

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Sent my deposit.

I ordered a K&N, last spring, and received the larger element. I believe, the issue stems from what each distributor has on their shelves. For instance, a smaller distributor may not stock it and orders direct from K&N at the time the customer (us) orders and they receive a large element. Whereas a large distributor may have stock sitting on the shelf from 5yrs ago and the customer ends up with a small element. I think, your best bet is to order direct. I feel like the K&N rep probably walked out to the warehouse and physically pulled a filter to double-check the element for their conclusive answer.

All the high-end stuff has sensors in the individual runners. What I can’t say is how far they protrude into exhaust flow. Richard and Jozef know their stuff, given they’ve went so far as to try and campaign a prototype bike in MotoGP (no matter what platform it was based off of), have built some the fastest bikes on the planet and in any paddock, and have bikes that currently remain at the pointy end of any grid. I’d be most inclined to follow their advice, since they’re on the frontline and have firsthand knowledge of what does what.

I bought it used with the map in it. The only connections I made were to the EFI interface and battery. It came with no instructions, download cables, etc; just the module itself.

I have a PC5 on my ‘98 and it runs perfect. In response to “Voided76” being curious about gearing affecting horsepower readings, it does not. It only aids in the engine’s mechanical advantage over the wheel, but, does not change engine output or horsepower numbers read by a dyno.

Amazing effort!

That’s a RAM mount, which is used to mount accessories to, using their attachments.

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