• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Carbon Air Box Cover ????

Blazes

Blazes

Husqvarna
AA Class
Been looking at designing a mold and making a carbon fiber air box cover as the Husky air take is very low.

Would it be ok to make one and fit the air in take higher up with a cover that can be pushed close to seal it off should one cross deep water.
Any constructive idea's would be appreciated

Thanks
 
I have started and got some ideas. the only problem I think I could pick up by fitting the inlet high up is that should water perhaps get in that it will run down the oiled filter and may be sucked in --but then a gain looking at the present design this could just as well happen in the position the inlet is at present ---
 
Have you seen the 630 air box design ?

The inlet is high up with a snorkel that leads upwards which is good for water crossings and.
IMO the only improvement I would like is to make the inlet hole much larger.
I currently have a large cut out on my air box lid covered with an EHS prefilter. This allows the engine to breathe better and results in greater performance.
A larger inlet hole would mean an appropriately modified snorkel.

Let me know if you would like pics of the 630 air box.
 
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My custom intake snorkel. Probably 40% larger. The dirt does not seem to concentrate in one location anymore, spreads more evenly across the whole filter.
 
Kirbybikes- that's cool. What did you use to make the snorkel? Looks pretty well done- good job. Does the side panel still fit on just fine? I always thought the panel fit close up to the stock snorkel.
 
The snorkle is some random piece of plastic I molded with a heat gun and lots of patience. The stock side cover fits just fine, although a little less clearance now. The new snorkel exploits all the available room under the stock plastic side cover. The depth was mainly in the space between the airbox cover and the snorkel, if I remember about 3/8 of an inch.
 
Blazes I just did a complete airboxectomy - hate that 610 piece of shyte excuse for an air box! In fact I am now getting tired of doing the self directed recalls and after the fact R&D on this bike! Still love the bike but just seems never ending.
 
Hey Michael If you could make a carbon version of that snorkel idea I would take one straight away. :thumbsup:

As long as it doesnt affect the performance of the bike
 
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