Author Topic: Air Filter & Stack Filter Kit for 550's & 750's / The end, see post #898, pg 36 (Read 200741 times)

Tintop · « **Reply #800 on:** April 14, 2012, 06:46:43 PM »

I'll be posting something next week.

Tintop · « **Reply #801 on:** May 03, 2012, 06:23:47 PM »

Looks like there is enough interested parties to proceed with another order. As mentioned in an earlier post all my costs have gone up, so unfortunately the price has increased by $20. This order will be for x 10 kits, so for those who have contacted me, let me know ASAP if you still want one.

Please see the 1st post for the updated pricing & deposit info.

Raymax · « **Reply #802 on:** May 05, 2012, 06:30:48 PM »

While I'm not even close to needing a filter set up for my bike yet, this looks like something I might be interested in when the time comes. Are you planning on making these as long as there is interest? Or do you have a planned cut off date. (Obviously this is barring any major circumstance that affects you).

Tintop · « **Reply #803 on:** May 07, 2012, 07:34:33 PM »

Quote from: Raymax on May 05, 2012, 06:30:48 PM

While I'm not even close to needing a filter set up for my bike yet, this looks like something I might be interested in when the time comes. Are you planning on making these as long as there is interest? Or do you have a planned cut off date. (Obviously this is barring any major circumstance that affects you).

Good question Raymax. This current order (10 units) will be the last one until the fall, as I'll be racing my sidecar this summer. If there is enough interest after the race season finishes, then I'll do another batch of 10.

Dannodarko · « **Reply #804 on:** May 17, 2012, 09:07:16 PM »

What would the exchange be in US dollars?

Tintop · « **Reply #805 on:** May 18, 2012, 05:31:33 PM »

They were at par, not sure as of today. Usually they stay within .02 either way these days. Depends on the price of oil.

MCRider · « **Reply #806 on:** May 18, 2012, 06:52:21 PM »

Tintop, I'm subscribed but i haven't read the whole thread. My engine carb set up ran fine years ago with pods. But if for some reason it doesn't this time around can you fit a set of VM29s Mikuni Smoothbores on a CB750 with your kit?

Tintop · « **Reply #807 on:** May 18, 2012, 08:04:48 PM »

The OD of the throat is the determining factor MCR. The stacks for the 750 PD's are 42mm ID, not sure what the VM29's are. If I remember correctly bwaller & I went through this and the VM29 throat is 44mm.

Caso · « **Reply #808 on:** June 08, 2012, 05:08:38 PM »

How much USD for a set for the 750??

Tintop · « **Reply #809 on:** June 08, 2012, 05:15:08 PM »

The kit is priced in Cdn $'s, as that is how all my costs are paid. If you use Paypal it will do a current exchange when you specify Cdn $'s.

Sprocketwerx · « **Reply #810 on:** June 11, 2012, 12:10:35 PM »

Well, I read the first 5 pages, and the last 5 pages, and don't have time to read the whole thread looking for actual prices (not... they went up $xx).

I'm interested in getting in on the next order but need to know $$.
I have a '72 CB750, stock carbs, and pods. want more performance than a breadbox but still want the period look (bike was chopped in '76 and I'm preserving it while riding it as my DD).

Thanks
Sprocket

Tintop · « **Reply #811 on:** June 11, 2012, 01:52:26 PM »

The very 1st post in the thread has the current pricing. There is a kit or two available from the current order.

77cb750speed · « **Reply #812 on:** June 14, 2012, 01:17:26 AM »

$255 is kinda steep.. I am running half the stock air box with homemade boots from 2x1.75 45 degree elbows that I cut the elbow part out in the middle and that gave me 4 boots. I then put a piece of aluminum diamond plate on the bottom of the stock filter and bolted it to the one half of the air box. Looks pretty good with the k&n filter and performance is great soon to make the one half of the air box out of aluminum for better looks. Just one question how much you making on these kits. Looks like something I can make for under $125. I am not putting these down just don't see how they are so pricey.

Tintop · « **Reply #813 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:02:38 AM »

For a 1st post, not exactly how to win friends on this forum. It would also appear you haven't read the entire thread. There's a bit more to the science than a bunch of pipes, some foam, and alloy.

So.....the filter material is the same as used on current F1 cars (Renualt F1 is an ITG customer), and the depth of the filter is determined by the carb venturi size / the stacks are hand made using the latest stack theory (rolled bell mouth), incorporate a sealing ring, and are sized for each application (550 / 750 early & PD). All the hardware is SS, and the total filter weight is less than .75lbs.

Oh, and I don't make very much on these. As a matter of fact I lost money on the last order.

So if you think you can offer the same level of current real technology, and the custom fitment for 1/2 the money, be my guest.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #814 on:** June 14, 2012, 04:15:30 PM »

Exactly, i had replied but deleted what i said, basically made all the same points but was a little more direct. You cut any airbox in half and you have just LOST performance, make you own stacks form tube and they WON'T work, a velocity stack is a purpose built piece of equipment that does a specific job. So i would really like to see you manufacture what a Formula one team supplier does, at home for less than the price Brian has these kits made for, you would run out of money just trying to make the correct stacks....
These filters are a Performance modification not a back yard botch job....

Gurp · « **Reply #815 on:** June 23, 2012, 11:24:37 PM »

Quote from: Retro Rocket on June 14, 2012, 04:15:30 PM

Exactly, i had replied but deleted what i said, basically made all the same points but was a little more direct. You cut any airbox in half and you have just LOST performance, make you own stacks form tube and they WON'T work, a velocity stack is a purpose built piece of equipment that does a specific job. So i would really like to see you manufacture what a Formula one team supplier does, at home for less than the price Brian has these kits made for, you would run out of money just trying to make the correct stacks....
These filters are a Performance modification not a back yard botch job....

+1

Tintop · « **Reply #816 on:** June 24, 2012, 04:37:28 AM »

Should have a delivery status update early this coming week. There are a couple of extras in the order. I'll post what's available shortly.

Tintop · « **Reply #817 on:** July 04, 2012, 05:16:44 PM »

Order update - the latest order has shipped & I should receive next week. I'll need some time to drill backplates, & pack.

A list of the current orders, and what is still available will be posted tomorrow.

Tintop · « **Reply #818 on:** July 05, 2012, 05:12:12 PM »

This is what I have deposits for & what is still available. If you don't see your name please contact me by email. A number of people expressed interest, but I never rec'd a deposit.

500 / 550 Filter Kits:
K Agin / A Jordan / A Reyes / J Stokesberry >There is one (1) kit available.

750 Filter Kits:
M Sudol (need to know if early or PD carbs?) > There are five (5) 750 kits available.

This is likely the last order I'll do, so if you've wanted one now is the time.

percolate · « **Reply #819 on:** July 07, 2012, 09:01:13 PM »

Dear Mr TT,

I am interested in one of your last remaining anti-pod kits for my 1976 550F please. I'm a brand new member and this is my very first post on this here forum. And aside from your kit being so darned expensive (KIDDING!!!!! (Well, no, not really, but I also understand that more often that not one gets what one pays for.

), it sure looks like a good start to getting my bike to a happily tuned place.

...so after reading through most of this thread I feel I have fallen down the rabbit hole on this one. This whole world of tuning and carb whispering is at once daunting and seductive. I've been trying to do my due dilligence with research and learning, both from the interwebs and friends who are enthusiasts, and wow have I learned a lot from this thread! Thanks all!

The following should probably find its way to a build page for myself, but I will try to keep it brief. I went for my first ever motorcycle ride two weeks ago yesterday. And I'm kinda hooked. Having NO experience with motorcycles, a friend gave me my bike about four years ago – it had been sitting in a barn in western MN for the previous ten years, not working when it was parked of course. I dumped a bunch of work and $$ into it when I first got it, got the engine running, went through it from tip to tail and did the best I could not knowing much, and then I traveled to Asia and then winter happened. It was 90% of the way to ridable but that last 10% was full of mystery to me. And it was winter.

So the bike basically sat from the fall of 2008 until this spring when a roommate chided me about it and offered to help get it running. Well, I got it running. (And then I ended up being the one to help him get his Yamaha bobber project running. Ha! Very satisfying indeed.) It was converted to pods before I took ownership, and for the most part, runs pretty darned smoothly. But then I don't know what I am talking about because I have exactly nothing to compare it to. But I do know it can run a lot better and getting rid of those pods is one step in that direction. And your setup looks so very nice and has been so well though out that I would rather not go hunting for a stock airbox.

Anyway, blah blah I'm starting to ramble. The short of it, I want one of your 550 filter kits pleez! And I like the splitting of payments - takes a little of the sting out of my budget. And they look really nice too.

Thanks!

Goldbug · « **Reply #820 on:** July 10, 2012, 08:26:52 AM »

Any way to order JUST the velocity stacks? I need some for a '73 CB500 and '79 CB650.

Tintop · « **Reply #821 on:** July 10, 2012, 02:17:50 PM »

Hi percolate, there is one 550 kit still available. Deposit instructions are in the 1st post at the beginning of the thread (page 1).

Sorry Goldbug, I tried doing just stacks, and got burnt

, so the answer is no.

percolate · « **Reply #822 on:** July 11, 2012, 05:45:07 PM »

Hi Tintop,

Excellent! I will make my deposit on Friday morning. It was a goofy month at work this past month with some accounting shifts and I (and many others) only got one paycheck instead of two. But Friday is payday and I will be back in the money. I feel a bit lame saying this but I noticed that you only had one kit left and wanted to jump on it before it was too late. I'm super excited about your antipod kit - I've done a bunch of work on this bike and tried to do it all on the cheap so this will be my little treat to myself and the bike.

BTW, I read through your build thread last night. Holy moly you put an incredible amount of labor and love into that ride! Nice work indeed! On the one hand inspirational, on the other, totally demotivational. I, like you (and many others on this forum it seems), tend to be pretty detail oriented. And if you're going to do something, then do it right and take it all the way. I want to take the top end of my engine off and give it some love inside but am nervous about the potential project creep that would inevitably happen. (Also my apologies for calling you TT in my first post. Damn noob! Hopefully I'll learn someday. )

Anyway, great work, thanks for all the excellent documentation and thoughtfulness, and expect to see some $$ in your PP account come Friday.

Cheers - Steve

Tintop · « **Reply #823 on:** July 11, 2012, 05:53:03 PM »

Thanks for the comps re my build Steve. I've put your name on the list.

That leaves x3 750 filters still available.

DirtyVulture · « **Reply #824 on:** July 17, 2012, 07:26:05 AM »

Hey, any chance you have a 550 kit left?

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Author Topic: Air Filter & Stack Filter Kit for 550's & 750's / The end, see post #898, pg 36 (Read 200741 times)

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