Hey Mario,
I think TC's been travelling, if memory serves me correctly.
I haven't used the velocity stacks on the max, but they should work pretty
well. I'd take off the screen, though, since it's only effective against
really BIG debris and will greatly reduce flow rates. (If you don't believe
me, try this experiment: get a big fan and put it behind a screen like a
sliding patio screen door, then, with the fan blowing toward you slide the
screen in front of the fan. You won't believe what happens to the flow.) I
wouldn't use them on the street with or without the screens. The reason they
work ok on snowmobiles is that there isn't much dust when there's snow on
the ground.
Actually, I've been thinking quite a bit about the airflow situation under
the tank cover on the max since somebody noted on the list that moving their
knees up next to the scoops caused the bike to stumble at full throttle. I'm
suspecting that 1. the environment under the cover isn't conducive to
high-volume, high velocity, low turbulence airflow 2. as a result, the
airflow for high demand applications is on the ragged edge of sufficiency.
Just a speculation, but I'll bet a hot setup for the max at the strip would
be to graft some long velocity stacks (like on the old Hillborn injectors)
onto the max - long enough to extend through holes cut in the tank cover.
That way they'd be exposed to a high-pressure air source. (The front of the
rider's body creates a high-pressure area.) This would create a sort of
low-rent ram-air system like the one Chevy used on the late 60's Chevelles
with ram air intake just in front of the windshield. It wouldn't work so
well if the rider was tucked down right on top of the stacks, however. It
might be worth playing with in any case. I don't know if anybody's ever
really looked at the pressure environment under the cover, but I'll bet it's
bad.
Best,
Sat Tara
on 9/26/00 6:09 PM, Mario C. Aguiar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Some guy at work told me he tried the Mikuni carb intakes
> designed for snowmobiles on his Suzuki (stage 3 Dynojet) with great
> results, (these intakes are nothing more than polished aluminum velocity
> stacks with a fine mesh screen)
> But remember here, we're talking about one of the "anal
> retentive" guys at work, so...
>
> Anybody out there tried these intakes??
>
> And speaking of "anal retentive"..Anybody knows what's with TC ??
> I would like to know what's his scoop on this..
>
> Mario
>
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