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929 Ram air ducts! - 9/7/2006 6:00:29 PM

telepathboy

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I have never seen anyone else with these so I thought I'd post 'em. They're good for another 5-7 hp and it took me about 20min to install! I like the way you can't even see them unless you are really looking. I also bought some black polyehtylene screen and epoxied it in place as intake guards. My 929 breaths a lot easier with them on - it does seem like I clean the air filter a lot but it's probably cause I'm meticulous about it.

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/7/2006 6:01:57 PM

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coupla more shots...

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/7/2006 6:03:59 PM

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one more from farther back...

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/8/2006 10:50:13 AM

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where did you get them????

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/8/2006 11:43:01 AM

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I've seens velocity stacks on ebay for $180....but i thought they dc'd them the ram air ducts....im interested

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/8/2006 2:23:14 PM

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had the exact same thing on my 929 when I bought it. used elbows from a gutter system with the screen expoxied on the inside. Used dryer ducting (or something very similar, flexible metal tubing) to route to the 2 rubber tubes feeding the airbox.

Rubbed the forks and rattled badly. I yanked em out asap.

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/8/2006 5:51:52 PM

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These aren't made from gutter (although I have seen those too). These are hand laid fiberglass units and they fit perfectly. I got them from hardracing.com a few years back. I don't think they have them on the website anymore but call them or email and I'll bet they can still get them...

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/10/2006 2:35:15 PM

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question:

Do you still have the hardware for the inner fairings that you took out to mount these?

I found my inner fairings (in a bag, just bought the bike 2 weeks ago) but no hardware. Could you take pics of the hardware? Or could I buy the hardware from ya?

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 9/11/2006 7:47:10 PM

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Let me look around for the plastics - I'll let you know if I can find them...

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 1/20/2007 3:02:58 PM

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thanks for linking this to my post, but no one ever answered the question to how much does that system cost?

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 6/30/2007 8:13:38 AM

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I have a set of the same ram air kit.. i'm willing to sell since i sold my bike..

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RE: 929 Ram air ducts! - 8/28/2007 11:05:46 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: telepathboy

They're good for another 5-7 hp and it took me about 20min to install!

I hate to say this but this did nothing for HP!!! If it did anything it gave you maybe 1 HP.

Now my reasoning for saying this so you don't just think I don't know what I am talking about.

There was an article done by a few different magazines on a Kawasaki professionally built "top speed" bike. You know the ones that go 250mph and such at Bonneville Salt Flats??!! Well this bike they were talking about had working RAM AIR on it. The designer, the rider, the tuner, the mechanic and anyone else who was working with, on or for this bike said. "Anything below 150 mph the ram air does nothing, above 150 it makes maybe another 2 hp's. Anything in the 200+ range the ram air gives the bike another 3-5 hp's".

What you have done was, YES, created a ram air effect on a bike that has none. What this is actually doing is only getting "cooler" air into the airbox.

If you say that you dynoed the bike before and after and gained 5-7hp's, you are not telling us the truth. If your bike is on the dyno there is NO RAM AIR EFFECT!!! PERIOD. I don't care if you put a fan in front of the bike, do you honestly thing that any fan is able to produce the air force needed to act as 150mph+??? NOT!!!

And if you actually did the job correctly you would have a "Pressurized airbox", like ones used for turbos and superchargers. Basically you made a "cold air intake" on your bike that didn't do a damn thing for HP.

I am sorry if I rubbed anyone the wrong way on this but this is my knowledge. And trust me, I have been working on engines my later half of my life from Military Jets, to bikes, trucks and boats. And a few drag vehicles too, where cold air and ram air can be your friend. Your 5-7 hp increase is a load of shite, and if you did dynoe it for that number then it was really cold where you are and the air was a whole lot better for hp #'s!!!!

Laters.

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