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Posted by greenbarn
- July 05, 2014, 10:41:44 AMPlanning to "Clean Up" the 1500, while I'm in the middle of all the other mods. The tank is off, so now is the time. Just trying to consider the best way. The "best way" is different for everyone - for me it's the combination of cheapest/best performance/simplest and of course, least likely to do "damage" or have negative repercussions.
So that leads me to a few questions:
1) what are the down sides to taking out/ disabling the idle solenoids? If I'm ok with maybe having to use the "choke" knob for cold starts (have to on the 800 anyway), is there any other down sides??? How about reasons to remove? They haven't actually caused me problems. The only "ill" I have read about them is a clattering sound - which honestly I haven't noticed much, unless maybe the noisy cold engine noises I'm getting are actually just those solenoids - hmm the more I think about it, maybe it is....
2) Air intake: I studied Troll's air intake mod, and am considering this. However, the bike already has a stock-configuration K&N filter element on the left side. So in order to be able to use that, I was looking at it and it looks like it would be simple and maybe effective to simply drill some holes in the left-side backing plate (outside the seal on the air filter of course) to allow it to draw more fresh air from behind the air filter housing. Does anybody see any problems with that?? Any thoughts on if it will actually give it much more air, say compared to Troll's mod switching to the right side and fabbing a new backing???
http://www.vulcandrifterriders.com/forum/index.php?topic=11026.0
3) Coasters vs. marbles: Obviously, the coaster version is a cleaner (looking) more complete doing away with the un-necessary stuff, but costs a little bit (JPCycles has Baron coasters for $22 or I could just make a set: Cost: about 1 hour of time) while the Marble (or pipe plug) trick is easier, quicker, and cheaper. As far as I can tell both would be equally effective, so not many other considerations. Is there anything else I'm missing??