K&N Pod Filters can we make them work on RD ?

[Pravin]

One of the many doubts ,

I have been using UNI pods on my cafe racer bike and every year they dis integrate , the RED layer wears off in few months and then the second stage black foam pod also tears off ..

I dont use my cafe daily and mostly in summer , so she's parked a lot of time , and I don't oil the filters , so that is the reason they go out of shape ?

I had been holding the K&N POD filters for long and heard that they don't work well due to metal plate .... is there anything we can do to make those work ? like adding some extension between carb and filter ?

I don't want to replace UNI Pods every year : (

Cheers.
Pravin

[m in sc]

you leave your bike outside, dont you? Ive run unis for many years no issues. but i don't store them outside.  that being said... run a  y boot and k & n of you have to  stay away from the hard backed ones... and , fwiwi, they don't really hold up that well either.

IF you have to leave it outside, cover it. IF you have to try hard backed filters, make a 2" or so runner between the bellmouth and the filter neck.

are you running genuine unis or something else?

[Pravin]

No SC she's parked in a stilt parking well covered ... I don't oil then so they go dry ? And disintegrate?

Just don't find a reason why in a year they go bad ..:( 

[m in sc]

i never oil mine. i get 5+ years out of them. usually more.

[Pravin]

Wow that's good life , do you oil them or run then dry ?

[m in sc]

i never oil them.

[Pravin]

:( may be coastal humid weather then here in Mumbai ..

For now I'll replace them though as they work well !!

Cheers
Pravin

[m in sc]

im sure the coastal environment is mostly to blame then. its rough on everything.   

[Clem710]

Mine last forever as well, dont oil either.  I wouldnt think it would just be the weather even tho its notoriously hot in India.  The sun is also usually hard on plastics but they are covered mostly.

Maybe something is in your fuel that is not in ours and whatever blowback you get is eating them?  Or maybe you are not getting the real ones

[Pravin]

Mine last forever as well, dont oil either.  I wouldnt think it would just be the weather even tho its notoriously hot in India.  The sun is also usually hard on plastics but they are covered mostly.

Maybe something is in your fuel that is not in ours and whatever blowback you get is eating them?  Or maybe you are not getting the real ones

Fuel is a valid point , possible ....2 sets I got from usa so I think they are genuine ..
I am runin premix ...

[rodneya]

You could try some Ramair filters from the UK next time.

[Clem710]

+1, if you are doing it every year, you could try just about anything as long as you are not losing pistons and cylinders.  Sock on a gutter guard?

[350GUY]

The humidity + salinity is the culprit. 

[Pravin]

+1, if you are doing it every year, you could try just about anything as long as you are not losing pistons and cylinders.  Sock on a gutter guard?

Yes I'll try RAM air ....i do have k&N Pod filters which I bought back in 2009 in usa but never installed reading the reviews ...those seem to be solid ones for Mumbai weather ..

It's the humid and salty sea level air :(

[Pravin]

The humidity + salinity is the culprit.

Yes and the chrome also doesn't last more than couple years of you don't coat it with grease in monsoon which makes the bike look like shit when u ride in rain n muck on the roads