Interesting carb intake fabrication

www.kawasakimotorcycle.org/forum/vintage...ake.html#post1959825

wow, thats definetly worth trying! 20 bucks or less worth of material there, minus filter.

i think im going to try to make one.

Thanks for sharing that MFolks!

I filled the joints, and cracks with bondo, sanded, and then painted everything

He didn't glue it all together?

I don't see how the last carb in line is going to get enough air; especially with that itty bitty air filter. In fact, every carb receives a different amount of airflow. Does the guy ever show the thing on a bike and say how it performs? I'm betting it doesn't work anywhere near as well as the airbox Kawasaki spent millions of yen on designing. Ed

You're right Ed, you def need a plenum to get equal flow. If you really thought PVC was a good idea you could make one out of like 4" pipe combined with the 1.5" stuff. But a log like that will not flow for shit.

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"He said the bike runs "amazingly well", but the carbs need to be "tweaked"."... Don't they all! :whistle:

I'm with the others where 1 filter for 4 carbs! :blink: :S
I guess if all 4 combined are only pulling 40-60CFM...

I'll stick with my setup thank you...

OMR

loks like a jetting nightmare to me! :S

Adam (9am) you seeing this...

DON'T DO THIS!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Hey now...

Not that I will do this, I am a big fan of my individual pods, but in essence it is a good idea. If I remember from reading his thread over tha past few weeks/months he is a bit of a newbie like me, so maybe he didn't know any better with the design, but to have a setup that enables you to keep stock jetting, (no messing around) and yet lets you take the carbs off and on without the hassle of the stupid boots and airbox is great. I think if somebody with more carb experience designed something like that that looked better, flowed same as stock, and didn't take a half a case of beer to remove and replace carbs it would be a boon for many people.

I admire his ingenuity.One suggestion would be to put a filter pod at each end of the plenum and turn them 180 degrees so they would point forward.Seems like u would get more of a "ram air" effect like that and it would not be any harder to fab up or install.Also would not get in the way of ur leg(s).bj

I One suggestion would be to put a filter pod at each end of the plenum and turn them 180 degrees so they would point forward.Seems like u would get more of a "ram air" effect like that and it would not be any harder to fab up or install.Also would not get in the way of ur leg(s).bj

i was thinking that too when i saw the comment about the last carb in the row...put two filters on! one on each side.

Then you could expirament with air filter sizes to get the bike running correctly.(in theory)