Originally Posted by Gripfxbbs

Hand polished my S&S intake manifold since i had the day off due to rain. Im not expecting anything, but it cant hurt so whatever. I got to listen to music and hang out in the garage for an hour and a half.

new intake manifold and Fuel Moto 5.5 injectors:

Originally Posted by snake_eyes

Pfffttt, Australia???!!??


J/K

Originally Posted by Gripfxbbs

meh.

If it hurts or helps, Ill never notice the difference. It was a fun project and I'm happy with it. Im not going to concern myself with what some guy thinks may be true.

Originally Posted by cwsharp

From my knowledge the most effective is porting of intakes on 8 cylinder and the polishing comes along with the effort just to clean up what the porting did. I agree that you wouldn't notice the difference on a 2 cylinder but hey, with a beer and some good music why argue about it not being worth it?

Originally Posted by NZLowrider

or get Ward performance port and polish for a mere $240- https://wardperformance.com/55mm-manifold-porting

Originally Posted by YHNYDad

So got the Fuelmoto Rain Sock Prefilter today in the mail. Going to be contacting them tomorrow.

Here’s what I found.

it’s like a garter with elastics on both ends and the rain sock in the middle…open on both ends.

note: I have not installed the filter yet so installed the rain sock on it on my workbench which should have made it easier to get it on as I can get a good angle on it to get it on…but not really.

It fits really tightly on the filter. It’s a bit of a pain to get on. Getting it off is no problem. I did this several times.

Not sure how long the stitching is going to last on the two elastic bands as it looks fragile…like it will fray/get snagged and unravel over time if you put it on/take it off a lot.

The rain sock when fully on (and I tried it with the seam in several different locations) has excess rain sock material in some spots and it pops up off the filter in some areas and in others the rain sock material isn’t wide enough to cover the filter completely…so there is exposed filter.

Tried it on both ways, and with the seam in different positions, and that didn’t solve the issues above and seen below in the pics.

It’s disappointing. The quality control on the one I got is lacking.

The BMF filter seems really good…looking forward to getting on the bike. The rain sock not so much.

Maybe the next batch will be better…
Hope others who bought it had better luck.

I’m sure Fuelmoto will take care of me to make it right…just not sure about this rain sock.

Here are some photos:

Pre Install:



Tried it with seam on end: (see the buckling/excess and the fit is not great)



Tried it with the seam in the middle (same issues):



Tried with seam in the middle: (doesn’t reach the bottom of the filter to protect it)