Air Box PITA

Monolith said:

Philip (Wurzel) has a kit airbox that’ll fit the oem tank.

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Wurzel where he been? last I saw a video he was hanging shower nozzles on a rack above his throttle bodies and had a laptop controlling them.. few years back now don't see him much anymore, his SRAD is sweet no jokes one of the nicest in the world, his and the build going on right now, the bitsa bike...

man I wish, I have a perfect candidate for a build like the recent bitsa build but man how much that cost must be upwards of $10k at this point, then if you did a Wurzel engine? holy smokes, tell ya what if I had a machine shop tho I would make my own parts, billet lower fork radial caliper carriers, real radial carrier, billet perches, a nice billet 3 piece stay that holds clocks and mirrors..

the works.. id makes bolts out of Ti, everything I could out of Ti, axles, nuts, washers, for wheels and swing arms, engine mount bolts, old boy taught me how to use an auto lathe wen I was about 20, this dood made RC engines, from top to bottom, he had a nice massive lathe in his basement, all your other metal tools, no CNC back then but he had a foundry so he cast all the cases, I am sure had CNC been in the thing he would have had one but he made all sizes, one was a 25cc .. amazing, he waked me thru his entire process top to bottom I remember most of it I spose..

I stopped hanging out with him and my buddy said he went down I-5 the wrong way and killed himself, I do remember he would get funny at times, he'd say odd stuff like "hey you're the guy who brings me the pellets how ya been?" I mean after we been working a few hours just out of the blue, he'd forget what he was doing and just go upstairs.. real sad, this happened several times a few times I came over and I was told he isn't in any shape to go down to the shop, felt bad for the guy, the look in his eyes the blank stare at the time I had no idea what was going on I just knew something was wrong, Docs had no idea, so they left hi to his own devices.. I think he knew he had a serious issue so when he was clear he decided to end it, hit a kenworth double sleeper head on and that was that, truck driver survived said he swerved into him off the trouble lane nothing he could do, the old boy had an airplane out in Darrington my buddy would go fly now and again.. oddly enough his home in darrington where the run way and pane was is right where that massive Oso landslide hit bout 8 years ago...insane

anywho I can work tools, I can learn and program CNC I dabbled in the code some ion the early 90's when it was hitting the scene, I just never had one but for sure i can learn it, I already know how to run several 3d programs, soft image, light wave, Maya so forth and have extensive knowledge of Linux be ncie to have a smaller one and a lathe, make some nice one off parts, get real good then maybe build a nice brand new superbike or two find a good rider and give it a go

Somethin to consider, pull the boots, install them alone on the carbs, let um sit over night to settle. Then toss um into the airbox and work them on knowing they atleast fit the carbs once ya get them to rest proper. Give them a little hot air from a airgun if its truely an all out war…

As for them sliding off when you tighten them. Are you sure you got them properly seated fully front and rear? If so… Are your clamps deformed? Might try flipping the clamps around so they pinch instead of squish and slide. Beyond that, maybe just lightly/firmly rest your spare hand on the top of the box when you tighten them… fwiw too, they dont need to be super snug, just tight enough they dont spin when you push them, suckers wont pop off anyway when only snug enough that the clamps wont rotate when pushed. Roughly a 1/2ish more turn of the philips beyond the point when you dont need to use a second hand to keep the bracket in position. Just push it a tat with the philips , if it slides/rotates, its too loose, if it doesnt move, then its tight enough.