I have too much time at work to think about these things and not enough time at home right now to actually do the work..
I am preparing for putting a monoshock mount, as part of a swapping in a new swing arm, on my 1982 GPZ1100 and the new shock and mount will be displacing the battery which is located below the 3 section airbox. To gain real estate for the battery, I am contemplating removing the air filter element section and the intermediate section and putting in an appropriately sized 22 degree bend to connect the stilling box to a rectangular K&N type Universal Air Filter.
I am not looking specifically for performance gains as much as I am looking for space to put a small battery between back of the air filter and the subframe where the existing filter is. Unless I want to change over to a microsquirt so that I can scrap the existing ECU, I don't have any real estate in the tail section. I do plan to put in an Eastern Beaver PC-8 Fuse box to replace the existing main fuse box and I plan to not discard the air temp sensor that is mounted in the middle section. I like the look of he existing airbox at this time, so, for that reason, I am not looking to discard it and put in pods. I just want to know if you all think this will work or not.
