Some guys have fines get by the intake side where air filter mount. The o-ring I showed stops that. Also can use some grease along with or maybe by itself.
Ya I thought about that too. I would only use it bucking.
If you wanted something like this for all uses, you could always by that A2D design one the guy sells. 3D printed with wedge so you can run top cover. But looks like a humpback camel.
You can get it with or without the wedge holes in it. Just not worth it to me, unless you had a really hot ported one to make use of that flow.
I would have prob had that all torn off dropping those 5 maples in March.
Once when stuck and ran and when I got it knocked out of my hands when I got my ribs broke.
I'll be leaving my 2 501's stock set up though. I still havent even went in and opened the intake up yet on either of those. Small gains there shown on Joe's dyno.
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