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I was thinking of the Hinckley Bonnie/Thrux/Scram :cheers:
JohnyC from Scotland installed pods on his Sram and decided to gut the box on this new EFI bonny instead of going the full route. He did gut both sides of the airbox however and remove the baffle. This combo flows almost but not quite as well as a pod equipped bike. Airbox versus pod debates are waged on every single motorcycle forum out there. There are pros and cons to each.
To the guy who doesn't mind a loudish intake roar, pods make sense to me. If you don't ride with quiet-ish pipes like Tors, then the intake roar is less obtrusive...in other words the noise of the pipes masks the intake honk. I prefer the airbox with baffle removed for my bike as I don't like the sound of the intake opened up which sounds like flipping the air cleaner on a 70's carbed car...lol. The box is there for a lot of reasons and a big one is noise.
Lastly, the more you build the motor, the more it makes sense to go to pods so the bike will get the air that it needs. With a stock bike and just pipes, the airbox slightly carved works fine and isn't as loud. The nice thing about removing the airbox baffle on bonnies, its reversible.
Pieman is widely respected and his dyno testing show that removing the baffle has a surprisinging improvement in hp with no loss in torque. Lack of torque loss seems to belie why it exists other then to abate the sound harmonic, but that seems to be the case. Drlapo running pods and then going back to an airbox because he didn't like the sound on his other bike makes sense to me. I have done this on other bikes as well. To me the sound signature of the bike is as important as extracting the small amount of power increase over 5K RPM but to others, horsepower gains are appreciated and the sound doesn't bother them.