Topic: EMGO pod filters hack

[Vhonda]

Nothing like electrical tape fix for cafe racer.

Without any adjustment to my carbs setting from running UNI foam filters, I added electrical tape to lower the surface area of the EMGO filters. +/- The surface area with electrical tape to adjust airflow.

That float bowl gasket was made from a cereal box and after 3 years still solid.

[Gurp]

Definitely some #$%*box mechanic work. I love it. I've had to do that a few times myself. 

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[Gurp]

You drive a beater car like me to?

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[Zissou]

That’s awesome. This seems like a trick to keep in the back pocket if you occasionally cruise up to high altitude

[Vhonda]

Gurp I love the $%#@box mechanical skill set 

Zissou, this hack should be included in all pod filter instruction booklets  Easy way for POD Newbies to understand air/fuel mixture.

[Gurp]

Gurp I love the $%#@box mechanical skill set 

Zissou, this hack should be included in all pod filter instruction booklets  Easy way for POD Newbies to understand air/fuel mixture.

It's definitely one of my favorite skill sets. It's one of the things I love about this forum and these bikes there's so many different ways to do things and achieve a good running cool bike.

Not to mention probably the best Honda community out there


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[Don R]

 I'll check for a pic, I cut up a gallon oil bottle, making some 1" arcs then I wound them into the Emgo pods. It took a couple tries to get a good pattern but once in there they stay in place well. My thinking was it could straighten out the air flow closest to the carb inlet. The carb can still pull air through the filters corrugations though so it might not restrict enough.
 Mine worked well replacing the Uni foam filters on a KZ1000 and then on my 836 with 29mm smoothbore carbs. They did not work at all on my gs1100 4 valve motor with a different set of 29 smoothbore carbs though! Even with the baffles removed.

[Kelly E]

The GS heads flow a bit better than the 2 valve heads.

[HondaMan]

They did not work at all on my gs1100 4 valve motor with a different set of 29 smoothbore carbs though! Even with the baffles removed.

That didn't work on the CB125 I restored, either.
Happily, someone in Thailand still makes [good] knockoff airboxes (or did, in 2012 when I did this bike) for the bike, so it got all new hardware and puttered perfectly into the sunset.

[seanbarney41]

They did not work at all on my gs1100 4 valve motor with a different set of 29 smoothbore carbs though! Even with the baffles removed.

That didn't work on the CB125 I restored, either.
Happily, someone in Thailand still makes [good] knockoff airboxes (or did, in 2012 when I did this bike) for the bike, so it got all new hardware and puttered perfectly into the sunset.

and that cb125 probably made more power than a cb550 with half plugged off crappy Emgo filters!