what is it you may ask?? is it a lamp shade? thats the first thing my smarty wife said with a big grin.... no , its my idea of the absolute fix for the RZR dust issue and something close to what polaris should have" in my opinion" installed from the factory (but maybe not as lamp looking)
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its an extremely high flow and completely waterproof airbox eliminator filter system with an intake noise baffle. I was tired of worrying about my filter and checking it all the time and glueing my filter box lid back on with silicone so this is what I came up with.
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turns out the rubber boot between the throttle body and the original airbox accepts a 3'in aluminum tube perfectly. 4 feet of tubing ran me $20 at a local material supply store. the rubber elbow is a rubber 3 1/2 inch 90% pipe elbow which I found at my local hardware store for $12. the filter I used is a k&n "style" filter with one big difference. iinstead of using a single layer of loosely woven gauze for a filter element, this filter uses 3 layers of tightly woven gauze so you cant see "daylight " through it like you can with a K&N. the filter element itself was for a 2004 ford diesel truck and is huge at 10 inches tall and 8 inches across at the base of the element tapering down to about 5 inches at the top. at first I just mounted the filter on top of the snorkle pipe without the cover and baffle and it was extremely loud! when you stepped on the throttle it just roared! I then thought about something I had noticed on my 11hp v twin ingersol rand comercial air compressor when servicing its air filter about a month ago. the filter box on the compressor was a totally sealed unit except for 6 small holes with pieces of tubing welded into them. the tubing was about an inch and a half long and went into the filter housing and I could see no purpose for them at all untill I turned the compressor on with the filter lid off!! it was extremely loud without this cover and the intake noise was cut by about 80% with the cover reinstalled. I wanted to make sure this intake muffler/baffle would flow plent of air so I installed 10 1 inch outside diameter tubes which have a 7/8 inside diameter. it flows WAY more than enough air now and is extremely quiet! now I also dont have to worry about by filter being exposed to dust and sand or even rain and nothing can be more free flow than this setup. its just a shame it looks like a lamp shade....
its an extremely high flow and completely waterproof airbox eliminator filter system with an intake noise baffle. I was tired of worrying about my filter and checking it all the time and glueing my filter box lid back on with silicone so this is what I came up with.
turns out the rubber boot between the throttle body and the original airbox accepts a 3'in aluminum tube perfectly. 4 feet of tubing ran me $20 at a local material supply store. the rubber elbow is a rubber 3 1/2 inch 90% pipe elbow which I found at my local hardware store for $12. the filter I used is a k&n "style" filter with one big difference. iinstead of using a single layer of loosely woven gauze for a filter element, this filter uses 3 layers of tightly woven gauze so you cant see "daylight " through it like you can with a K&N. the filter element itself was for a 2004 ford diesel truck and is huge at 10 inches tall and 8 inches across at the base of the element tapering down to about 5 inches at the top. at first I just mounted the filter on top of the snorkle pipe without the cover and baffle and it was extremely loud! when you stepped on the throttle it just roared! I then thought about something I had noticed on my 11hp v twin ingersol rand comercial air compressor when servicing its air filter about a month ago. the filter box on the compressor was a totally sealed unit except for 6 small holes with pieces of tubing welded into them. the tubing was about an inch and a half long and went into the filter housing and I could see no purpose for them at all untill I turned the compressor on with the filter lid off!! it was extremely loud without this cover and the intake noise was cut by about 80% with the cover reinstalled. I wanted to make sure this intake muffler/baffle would flow plent of air so I installed 10 1 inch outside diameter tubes which have a 7/8 inside diameter. it flows WAY more than enough air now and is extremely quiet! now I also dont have to worry about by filter being exposed to dust and sand or even rain and nothing can be more free flow than this setup. its just a shame it looks like a lamp shade....
