BEST PERFORMANCE AIR FILTER?! (08' RSV1000R)

Hi guys,

I have an 08 RSV1000R and have just ordered the PiperX air filter for my bike.

I'm being told Sprint filters are best for my bike and now I'm confused?

I like the idea of the maintenance on Sprint filters, as you just blow them with an airline and don't need to worry about oiling them or washing them etc...?

Can anyone clarify or confirm which is best?

Cheers

Webby

Johnboy wrote: If it's just a filter, go with what you're happy with. Performance wise it's not going to make much difference on its own pal. Not that you'd notice through the seat of your pants anyway.

The filter is just the beginning of all my future mods in mind.

I already have straight through Ti Akra's and now I'm looking to switch from Map1 to Map2 and get my TB's Adjusted to suit.

The Air filter will help surely - Especially if I also purchase the kit in the link above? Whatever it does?! (looks like a gasket of some description?) Will I need to make any other mods in order to get that to fit too? 

redratbike wrote: basically you throw away your airbox lid this then enlarges yoru airbox by using the bottom of the tank as the new lid the gasket sealing to the tank,along with yout akra's and map2 it will be good.   message Ed as he lives near you and may do a deal for local pickup and save on the ebay fee's ..he is Forzaaprilia on here

Ahh good spot?!  Just noticed on the link it's from Essex

However, would you run an open air filter 24/7, as I notice it states 'Race'

Vee60 wrote: good point!

Won't be toooo loud will it?!

snowman wrote: As soon as I can my bike will be doing a trip to AP , with open airbox etc in mind having read up on all of above.

 Ditto!

Just spoken to Griff..... Sooo having the work done.....

If anyone is near or close to Colchester, Essex then Griff and the gang are open to coming down and offer servicing and other required works needed doing to bikes so long as I can make it worth their while

Time to put the feelers out there me thinks?!

Hi guys, I just read this in another forum - "Hi

The differences are thus:

The Evo airkit retains the bottom of the airbox and replaces the upper part with a rubber seal and a billet aluminium ring. The seal presses against the perimiter of the tank and so uses the underside of the tank as the lid of the airbox giving more volume. There's a higher flow replacement for the standard air filter to improve airflow into the airbox. The system retains and makes use of any performance gains through the forward-pointing air intakes on the RSV so it has, in effect, got RAM air.

The Renegade kit replaces the entire airbox with a carbon-fibre plate that mounts on the throttle bodies and a high-flow air filter that fits on top of the carbon plate. Any RAM-air effects of the inlet tubes are not used but, because there is no lid on the airbox, at all, ever, the airflow into the engine is unimpeded.

The performance gains are probably slightly better from the Rene than the Evo but the Evo gets better the faster you go.

I've not fitted the Rene kit but it's supposed to be fairly easy. The Evo is a bit of a pain and I always doubted whether mine sealed properly. I've now gone back to the stock airbox with the Evo filter in it.

So, which would I buy? Neither! They're both expensive at over 100 quid and, having had my eyes opened a bit by the way things are done in the dirt bike world, I thought there must be a better way. I've since seen the airkit Pertech Imports are selling for the RSV and I'd buy that one. It replaces the airbox lid with a one-piece, very large foam filter in a stiff metal frame that just bolts in. And it costs fifty quid! It's not on their website yet but email Duncan at Pertech (duncan@pertech-imports.com) and ask him about it."

AP? Is the Induction kit you provide one of the above or is it similar to that of Pertechs perhaps?

People talking about the seal once fitted worries me?  

Cheers

W3BBY