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when you add pods (question on the boots)

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i assume they mount on the carb directly with clamps?? i want to add these a stage 3 DJ kit and a VH pipe either drag or street. plan to replace all the orings from cycleorings as well. now this is on a 82 850 with -14k.

would i fair well in the seat of the pants section of performance as well as actual with this set up?
 
Yes, they mount directly on the carbs with clamps (provided).

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You will definitely feel a performance gain. You will also lower your gas mileage a little bit.
 
cool thanks cause my boots are a little warped. so i think this is where my stutter is coming from havent been able to find it yet but at 2500-3000 or so it is a little boggy kinda like brrrrrWAAAAA once above the stutter it pulls like a diesel
 
cool the PO put a K&N filter in the one that fist in the stock clamp but i dont have the foam portion and i dont see how it works properly as there is a gap from the filter to the inlet in the box so im probly just sucking in unfiltered air?? he cut a piece of cardboard to make a gasket sorta but it didnt look like it was doing anything
 
Check MAWonline for the Dynojet kit
Amazon has good prices for the K&N pods.
 
Figure on $100 for a jet kit and another $150 for K&N pods - $250 to gain about 2 hp.
 
yeah thats about average for HP, $100 per hp. like the sign in the shop says "Speed is just a question of money how fast can you afford to go"
 
Nessism said:
Figure on $100 for a jet kit and another $150 for K&N pods - $250 to gain about 2 hp.
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kilog55 said:
yeah thats about average for HP, $100 per hp. like the sign in the shop says "Speed is just a question of money how fast can you afford to go"
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Don't tell him how much I've spent. :oops:
I need an extended swing arm to keep from staring at the clouds.

I do believe it's a little more than 2 HP. Nessie's in a bad mood cause it rained in L.A today. ;-)
 
chef1366 said:
I do believe it's a little more than 2 HP. Nessie's in a bad mood cause it rained in L.A today. ;-)
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I use the example of me vs. Tom_MLC in the dyno drag run when his '78 1000 was still stock and mine had the pods, jet kit and pipe. I was beating him consistently by about 1 second in the 1/4 mile.
 
chef1366 said:
Don't tell him how much I've spent. :oops:
I need an extended swing arm to keep from staring at the clouds.

I do believe it's a little more than 2 HP. Nessie's in a bad mood cause it rained in L.A today. ;-)
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Okay Bill, 2.01 hp extra.8-[

Yea, I'm grumpy about moding old classic bikes. Just about any modern bike will run rings around our GS bikes so why bother spending all the money and messing up the carburation just to add a few HP at the top end of the rev range? Pods need a header to take advantage of the increased air flow, so that adds another $300 to the cost. Just doesn't make sense unless your stock exhaust/air box is shot and you have no options left.
 
Bruce, your engine is WAY too clean! It's intimidating, because I know I wil NEVER have the patience for mine to be THAT clean! Looks good!
 
jknappsax said:
Bruce, your engine is WAY too clean! It's intimidating, because I know I wil NEVER have the patience for mine to be THAT clean! Looks good!
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Bruce did you spray paint your engine or is it just clen. If spray what type and color or paint code did you use. I need to spray mine to get it to look decent while I have it apart.
Cheers. Don.
 
Suzuki_Don said:
Bruce did you spray paint your engine or is it just clen. If spray what type and color or paint code did you use. I need to spray mine to get it to look decent while I have it apart.
Cheers. Don.
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I scrubbed mine clean with Simple Green Concentrate, toothbrushes and baby bottle brushes. I had to go over it several times.

If you need to paint it, I hear the Por-15 paint is the way to go.
 
renobruce said:
I use the example of me vs. Tom_MLC in the dyno drag run when his '78 1000 was still stock and mine had the pods, jet kit and pipe. I was beating him consistently by about 1 second in the 1/4 mile.
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Yeah, 2 HP will get you at least a second in the quarter-mile! :---)

Just doing some rough math: 500 pound motorcycle, 100 horsepower. Each horsepower has to move 5 pounds of motorcycle weight. Save 20 pounds of exhaust/airbox weight = 4 horsepower effective gain, before any actual horsepower gains from the pipe, PODs, and jet kit.

Thanks,
Joe
 
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Nessism said:
Yea, I'm grumpy about moding old classic bikes. Just about any modern bike will run rings around our GS bikes so why bother spending all the money and messing up the carburation just to add a few HP at the top end of the rev range? Pods need a header to take advantage of the increased air flow, so that adds another $300 to the cost. Just doesn't make sense unless your stock exhaust/air box is shot and you have no options left.
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How about reduced weight (my Supertrapp stainless 4 into 1 is probably 20 pounds lighter than the stock system), great sounds (intake and exhaust), and nice looks to go with the horsepower gain? How about ease of maintenance? I can have my carbs off in about 10 minutes and the battery out in about 2 minutes. Try that with an airbox equipped GS.

I can only speak from personal experience but my '83 GS1100, which I bought new and has been through many combinations of intake/exhaust modifications, starts, idles, runs, and pulls better than it did the day I picked it up from the dealer.

Using the 'Just about any modern bike will run rings around our GS so why bother spending all the money......' logic, are you also opposed to suspension upgrades? You can spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade a GS suspension and still not even approach the handling of a newer bike. So it isn't worth the bother to make your particular bike more capable and fun to ride? Do you buy premium tires? What's the point? your bike will never corner as well as a new bike so you might as well run 20 year old Bridgestone Mag Mopus tires, right?

Of course, this is just my opinion................... which makes it different than presenting your opinion as fact. :-D

Thanks,
Joe
 
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Joe Nardy said:
Yeah, 2 HP will get you at least a second in the quarter-mile! :---)

Just doing some rough math: 500 pound motorcycle, 100 horsepower. Each horsepower has to move 5 pounds of motorcycle weight. Save 20 pounds of exhaust/airbox weight = 4 horsepower effective gain, before any actual horsepower gains from the pipe, PODs, and jet kit.

Thanks,
Joe
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Hey Joe,

The topic of this thread is PODS. My assertion is that pods alone are only worth a couple of HP - I made no reference to power gains using pods/pipe/jetting.

Your math is interesting but off topic.

Regarding modding bikes, I'm a stock sort of guy for the most part. My 550E had a Yoshimura header on it when I got it but I dumped them for some stock pipes. Unfortunately, haven't been able to find a truly clean set of stock pipes so I recently bought some NOS Winning Performance slip-ons off ebay. Not to crazy about them but my current pipes are going to spring some leaks pretty soon and want to be prepared.

At any rate, I'm not strictly against modding, I just think it's silly to change things like the airbox when there is only minimal benefits.

Enjoy.
 
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