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Stock air box to pods question

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Can I just put pods on my 82 suzuki gs850l without rejetting my carbs. It has stock air box on it now.
 
No, you will need to rejet. If you are completely set on doing this, you should get good quality K&N or APE pods and a dynojet stage 3 kit. But, your best bet is to stick with the stock airbox.
 
The Dynojet kit comes with a different needle which greatly affects the mixture. It has more taper than the stock needle so raising/lowering the needle has a noticeable affect on the mixture. You can not replicate the kit by purchasing loose jets and tuning the bike yourself, although lots of people do try. Also realize that those cheapo Emgo pods that most of the cafe/bobber guys are running are pretty much junk. They are paper filters, not gauge like K&N's, so they must be run dry, not with oil like K&N's. They can not be cleaned like K&N's. K&N's are NOT cheap though. Figure on $120 for a Dynojet kit and $150 for real K&N pods. That's a lot of money for what you get out of a swap like that. Pods are affected by cross winds and rain too. I can sort of understand people running pods on a true performance bike, but not just for "the look."
 
Nessism said:
I can sort of understand people running pods on a true performance bike, but not just for "the look."
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Come on, Ed, EVERYBODY knows that an 850L is a "true performance bike". :-\\\

Most of my experience with pods is my son's 650L. It only has pods on it because that is how we got it, almost 15 years ago, and I have not bothered to look for a replacement airbox.

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Thats the exact reason i stuck with the k&n drop in. Itd be pointless for my bike and me at my skill level of a rider to do that. Im choosing to focus on suspension and handling. Although i am bumping up the mains for my 4 into 1 but not a ton

Plus shaftys are pointless to mod right hahahaha :wink:
 
I could see changing to pods on my 1000E, because I have a strong preference for unimpeded access to the battery. These days, with AGM Batteries and battery maintainers, it isn't as big of a deal as I remember it.
 
I might consider pods for my 900F because it's an absolute nightmare to get the carbs off. The carbs have to come off before you can get the airbox off. Nothing like the piece of cake my GS1100 is. However, I just spent a bunch of money to get it running right, so that would be down the road a year or so.
 
Deuce said:
I might consider pods for my 900F because it's an absolute nightmare to get the carbs off.
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For something that should only need to happen once every ten years or so, ... what's the big deal?

Why are you removing the carbs any more often than that? :-k

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