If you are going to vent outside (which is a better way) AND you are going to use hoses & a filter, then putting the filter ABOVE the A/C is the way to go, no doubt.

With respect, your comment about the Outlaw breather bolts is inaccurate.

I have thousands of miles on my sporty with the Outlaw Breathers, many of them absolutely hammering it at sustained high RPM, both in the heat and cold. Never had one drop of oil from them.

They don't drip, they are not wet to touch, they do not splatter/slobber oil down the side of the bike. After many hundreds of hard, high RPM miles there is a very light film on the back of the A/C back plate, but not enough to ever drip.

I run my oil level 3/4 the way ABOVE the add oil mark on the dipstick when cold.

The hot oily air hits the first fine mesh screen and breaks up the oil, then it hits the foam filter. The air passes thru and most of the oil gets absorbed by the filter, then drops down to the little reservoir and goes back into the head. The oil that makes it thru the filter hits the outer fine mesh and is broken up into a very fine mist.

The filter on the Outlaw breathers does NOT hold oil, so it cannot build up to "saturation".

Everytime you put the bike on it's kickstand gravity will drop the oil out of the filter & reservoir and back into the engine.

 

Disclaimer:
We are dealing with a very small problem with many variables, therefore individual results and observations may vary.
Most solutions are better than factory but even that does not seem to be a large negative.