does anyone know where to find...

[Anonymous]

open ended cone filters like the individual pod filters. I want the end to be open and not sealed with the chrome plate like the rest i have seen. Here is a picture of one from a car to give you an idea of what I want. Of course it would be wat too big.

It is linked from ebay so I guess it will ony work until the auction is over.
Sorry I do not know how to resize.

[HiSPL]

Are you trying to make a cold air intake? Just curious.........Why do you want to rice up your GS any way?

[Anonymous]

Ok, It's a JAPANESE bike so it's already rice, by definition. Do you have pods on your bike? Have you ever seen a bike with pods? Was it 'Riced Up' as you put it?

I want pods, I just want a certain style of pods. My Topic Title was ' Does anyone know where to find one of these' not ' Does anyone want to share their opinion about what I am doing to MY bike'

I am sorry for the hostility, I just really hate it when any amount of customizing that adds flash or sound is refered to as 'RICE'

Are glasspacks on an nineteen eighty- something mustang RICE? What about neons on a Forties Hot Rod, is that rice? No it's considered cool. Then a kid who buys a Honda because it's the 'New age HOT ROD' and does the same thing, all of a sudden it's rice. Even if I was putting a CAI on my bike how would that be rice, it's for performance. A shopping cart handle spioler that extends 12 inches above the roof on a Ford Escort is RICE. Not an intake mod that adds 5hp, better gas mileage, and a faster rev up time.

For performance sake you all know damn well that if suddenly BORLA or NOS or ACCELL discovered a 50 HP boost could be made from duct taping a banana to your gas tank Chiquita Stock would go through the roof.

[frosty5011]

For performance sake you all know damn well that if suddenly BORLA or NOS or ACCELL discovered a 50 HP boost could be made from duct taping a banana to your gas tank Chiquita Stock would go through the roof.

Why would anyone want to "banana up" their GS that way? :? :? :? :? :?

Come on, now. If you post a message on a 'forum', you're going to get opinions as well as advice. Some of it good, some of it bad - it's up to you to decide which ones to take seriously and which ones to ignore.

[Anonymous]

i never saw pod filters for a bike like that, get some k&n oval filters...make a wing and put a R sticker as well as a V-tech sticker :P

[Anonymous]

Yeah it was late and I always get frustrated when people automatically use RICE to describe something that is customizing.

[HiSPL]

Great rant....... Hahaha
Sorry if I offended. Didn't mean to. I was just curious if you were going to make a CAI. Yeah I do have pods, and a 4-1 with a custom baffle that I built. Its funny cuz all the ricers turn their heads when I ride by. My bike sounds like it has a coffee can exhaust, they look expecting to see a daewoo type R but they see my little 750 cruisin by.

Oh yeah, a riced up jap bike was an attempt at sarcasm. Sorry if it didn't convey.

[AOD]

is the actual inlet for the filter open to the air? so it sucks in half filtered air and half unfiltered air?

if that's the case, drill out the back of a set of Emgo filters. i have 4, new in the box still, on my table. i bet they can be drilled out.

~Adam

[Anonymous]

Nope, never seen those for a bike. As for questions about the air being filtered - yes it is - the inside of the filter is cone shaped and sealed. This just gives more filter area for an increased air flow. The K+N's work very well as it is.

I doubt you will find them for a bike anyway - but good luck trying.

[Anonymous]

rice is just a general term for a japanese soupped up car.
boat is an old huge car
sleeper is a car that looks stock, or slow, but is fast
wagon is a station wagon
how many doors does a chicken coupe have?
2 or it would be a chicken sedan...

[AOD]

chicken sedan would have 4.

[Anonymous]

thats right, if it had 4 doors, it would be a chicken sedan....

[HiSPL]

boat is an old huge car

I prefer prairie schooner or land yacht

[Anonymous]

thats right, if it had 4 doors, it would be a chicken sedan....

Original VW Beetle's are called Type 1 sedans, yet only have two doors. Wrap yourself around that one!
I vaguely remember my body shop class teacher saying something like the difference between a coupe and sedan is in the B-Pillar, or lack thereof.

[Anonymous]

Memphis, TN: Love your column and your opinions - especially since they often agree with my own. In several places you refer to the new VW beetle as a sedan. I thought the term sedan meant car with 4 doors and coupe meant car with 2 doors. Am I wrong?

James Healey: Thanks; very kind (and insightful).

There's legitimate disagreement about sedan vs. hardtop, but it's not because of number of doors. There are two-door sedans just as there are four-door sedans. A coupe, by definition, has just two doors, though Saturn's perfected that with it's 'three-door coupe.' A coupe also generally tries to be a 'hardtop' in appearance if not in reality. A hardtop, strictly speaking, has no center post between the front and back windows,so that if you put the windows down you have a big opening on the side uninterrupted by that roof piller (called the B pillar; windshield pillar is the A pillar, rear pillar is C, on to D for the back one on an SUV). It's the Beetle's thick B pillar that makes it seem more sedan than coupe to me. Also, VW refers to it as a sedan.

And while we're on purity of terms... Roadster means a car with a removable top, indeed, meant to be used without the top most of the time. The original Viper soft-top was a roadster; the Miata wasn't and isn't.