Just got my first winter project done. Installed the chrome Roland Sands Design Clarity Air Cleaner. Looks like I am going to need to get a tuner now.

 

I really like that air cleaner. Is a tuner really necessary?

Carl

 

Not necessarily!

Not necessary.

 

I don't know for sure that a tuner is necessary, but I already had pipes and just XiEDs. Once my other mods are done and the bike is back together I will start it up and see how it runs.

 

looks good.

 

Looks really good, it would be interesting to see if it stays clear or whether it'll mist with oil.

 

what is the clear part made out of?
could it be replaced with a different material if needed? does it come out of the housing?
looks awesome. I am skeptical about it clouding crazing cracking warping chipping etc

 

I really love the entire RSD line they are so innovative but unfortunately obscenely expensive.

 

I like it... It has a really nice clean look to it and works really good with your blue paint! Congrats!!

 

If you want your bike to perform it's best and not run nearly as hot, a tuner will take care of that. I don't care if the ECM is "self adjusting", there is only so much the ECM can do seeing as the design is regulated by the EPA. A tuner will always make a bike run much closer to it's full potential as oppsoed to no tuner. If it were my bike, I'd do a tuner now.

I bought my bike used with a dealer flash on it. It ran like crap. I put a power commander on it and it woke up and cooled way down. THat's my .02.

The thing that gets me is that a lot of people think that tuners and such are a big game of lets see what we can sell to the customer. That is not the case or else they would not exist. The factory setting on the bike and how it runs are mandated by the EPA which is the reason the bikes run so lean and hot. If you figure this in to the bike itself adjusting for an air cleaner/exhaust, it is only going to get hotter and leaner with the addition of a free flowing exhaust and and air cleaner. The only way to cool it down and reset the a/f mixture to change the way the bike runs is to add a tuner. It is a fact. Enough ranting for today, but I don't think that most people really understand the purpose of the tuner. That is what you are paying for. To get a new mixture of gas and air that will change the way the bike runs.

Drew