Hi

How do you hold your sausage filter backplate onto your carbs?

I made my own backplate for the TTS filter but cant see how to secure it to the metal carb trumpets.

how has everyone else done it?

could you put it between the carbs and the trumpets? drilling holes in the backplate for the bolts to go through?

john

You take the rubber grommet things out of the original airbox and bond them into the back plate

Cheers
David

I needed to buy an airbox off ebay (got it v cheap) for the rubbers that are used to attach airbox to the carbs.

Attaching it with the rubbers would be the easiest thing to do, if you have them/or can get them. But alternately you can drill the backplate and screw it to your carbs using the screw threads already there.

Steve

If its for a 919 or 893 blade Steves approach works really well - use the rubbers out of the original box with their clips, it makes fitting and removal much easier. If thats the case let me know - I have a set you can have
regards
Andy
AB Performance

Sorry i should have said its for an R1 carbed engine.

The R1 carbs have rubber trumpets that clip strait onto the carbs

then the airbox/ back plate has much larger holes with rubbers glued to them which clamp round the outside of the carb

I'll dig up some pics later if you want

just found this on ebay [NTDWM] - you can see the trumpets and I assume the other rubbers are still attached to the box, but best to check
its not too bad a price for the box, rubbers, clamps and trumpets if they are all included:
(infact that exactly what mine cost me, although I had to get all my bits seperatly - and its what I sold them for when I found out I was getting ZX9R carbs not R1's)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YAMAHA-YZF-R1-1999-UK-AIRBOX-FILTER-R1-4XV_W0QQitemZ160133268007QQihZ006QQcategoryZ10490QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewIt em

R1 carbs are definatly easier to deal with than my late ZX9R carbs

[Edited on 18/7/07 by mcerd1]

heres the pics

trumpets:


airbox rubbers:


and the airbox:

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Originally posted by Minicooper
You take the rubber grommet things out of the original airbox and bond them into the back plate

Cheers
David

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