aria! stock air box
It is always *an event* when the V11 is apart and waiting for parts . . . things happen. There's no stopping it!
Preparing for a ride (five days out ) to the Barber Vintage Festival, I figured on installing my "spare" (incorrect) throttle cable. See the other threads for that cock-up. . . . while performing, Beta testing, and revising the Tank Off Maintenance Checklist.
So, with the Sport poised like a willing *subject* in The La-BOR-atory, and the airbox lid at hand
To be honest, I found the inlets to be a definite choke point. The more I worked with them, the more I realized how much they pinch down as the air goes in and how irregular the first 3"/75mm.
If the inlet started at 39mm, it must have pinched down to 35mm inside necessitating a lot of prying and shaping with glass mandrel #1 (EvilTwinBrewing YIN Imperial Taiji Stout) with final shaping and polishing with mandrel #2 (Austria's Hofstetten Granitbock). While mandrel #3 (Oregon's RogueX
