CR Racing YZ450 Intake ?
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Especially if it's stupid loud, or not so bad....????
Especially if it's stupid loud, or not so bad....????
This may not help. But I live near him and am running one of his pod intakes on my Kx500. Mine is the next size up from the YZ450 one, anyways just was saying that it's a nicely put together product! Cheers.
As most of you know; we manufacture an intake for the 10-current YZ450F-FX. It is housed under the OEM upper schroud and is very calm in the noise department. We have had great success with the 100's that we have sold. They are $110.00 USD and work well.
Over the last 3 seasons we have sold this style intake, and I have had three customers tell me that the top of the engine packed full of snow and choked off the engine. In the 100's of hours of riding here in Colorado and Wyoming we have never experienced this. I have however had carb/throttle body icing happen two times last season on the YZ450FX's. I assume because they are breathing moist air from the engine melt under the upper shrouds. For the thousands of hours logged on this intake and very few negative days, I will still state I prefer our set up over the CR.
I can say this because I just took a 2016 YZ450FX in on trade that had a NEW CR intake in the box that came with it. I did the install of the CR so I can test it and know for sure I am selling the correct products to my customers.
The install was easy it does take more time due to cutting the big hole in the upper schroud and ruining it for going back to wheels in the summer. That is a $100 piece of plastic. Their cage and tubing is high quality. The mounting flange with IAT sensor mounting is spot on, and a perfect fit.
Riding it was a different story. I could not believe how loud it was. I felt like I was 16 and just installed a set of glass packs on my 68' camaro. It sounded GOOD!!!! After a few hours on the bike I was ready to wear ear plugs. The other thing I do not like is the metal cage sticking up within nut racking range of the seat. Two weeks ago I raced a snow cross race and landed the 40' table top out in the flats, racking my self badly. If I would have been on this bike I do not know how bad that would have been.
The great part about this intake is that you should NEVER have snow choke out the engine in any circumstance, and you may not ever get throttle body icing.
Over the last 3 seasons we have sold this style intake, and I have had three customers tell me that the top of the engine packed full of snow and choked off the engine. In the 100's of hours of riding here in Colorado and Wyoming we have never experienced this. I have however had carb/throttle body icing happen two times last season on the YZ450FX's. I assume because they are breathing moist air from the engine melt under the upper shrouds. For the thousands of hours logged on this intake and very few negative days, I will still state I prefer our set up over the CR.
I can say this because I just took a 2016 YZ450FX in on trade that had a NEW CR intake in the box that came with it. I did the install of the CR so I can test it and know for sure I am selling the correct products to my customers.
The install was easy it does take more time due to cutting the big hole in the upper schroud and ruining it for going back to wheels in the summer. That is a $100 piece of plastic. Their cage and tubing is high quality. The mounting flange with IAT sensor mounting is spot on, and a perfect fit.
Riding it was a different story. I could not believe how loud it was. I felt like I was 16 and just installed a set of glass packs on my 68' camaro. It sounded GOOD!!!! After a few hours on the bike I was ready to wear ear plugs. The other thing I do not like is the metal cage sticking up within nut racking range of the seat. Two weeks ago I raced a snow cross race and landed the 40' table top out in the flats, racking my self badly. If I would have been on this bike I do not know how bad that would have been.
The great part about this intake is that you should NEVER have snow choke out the engine in any circumstance, and you may not ever get throttle body icing.
I have a nice big intake like Tills. For the most part its been flawless. However in the 4' Revy blower i was getting some steam/intake bog. It only happened a couple times and it would clean out instantly. Never had any WOT issues with my R&D throttle body. All my friends have the same kind of pod sticking out the top for the crazy deep. I was thinking the CR is nice and compact.
i fabricated my intake based on the CR model.. as stated above, clean install, louder, doesn't plug up and may "get in the way" of a crash.. more money than my $40 build and it does cut up your summer airbox cover.. still a good mod for deep days..
Have you come over from the dark side to the darker side or still just dipping a toe?
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Making your own is a novel idea. However if you do make your own i believe you should really retain the stock airboot. Some of the elbows being used can actually cause a loss in horsepower. I talked with some Yamaha and Honda engine builders. They also do extensive mapping for MX and snow. They actually see a decrease in hp on the dyno with certain intakes. This especially apparant with the 4 stroke 450's. They actually map a stock intake differently than a say TSS intake.
I also have noticed this on a carbed CR500 that i ran. It does make a difference !
I also have noticed this on a carbed CR500 that i ran. It does make a difference !
Hey Honky Tonk, where did you source the intake cage from?
+1 for CR racing intake
Added cr racing intake to my 16 450 fx. A little loud but works perfectly. I bought an Aceribis cover (didn't want to cut the stock one). I'm very happy with it
Added cr racing intake to my 16 450 fx. A little loud but works perfectly. I bought an Aceribis cover (didn't want to cut the stock one). I'm very happy with it
Well, if cody matechuck runs it ...
I run the cr racing intake, it is a little louder when idling but don't notice it when riding. Only downfall is it does pop off easily in a wreck, maybe if there was a little lip on the bottom off the ring on the cage it would hold on a bit better, may be necessary for it to pop off too to keep from damaging. Overall pretty happy with it, now if I could get a good tune with the gtyr tuner.
Well
Been running Toby Till intake all year from plowin pow to my belly button, to flat effin raining like a dog, NOT ONE ISSUE,,,,, EVER. And I can even hear myself talking to me as I go....
Been running Toby Till intake all year from plowin pow to my belly button, to flat effin raining like a dog, NOT ONE ISSUE,,,,, EVER. And I can even hear myself talking to me as I go....
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JimBridger
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Old thread, but I have the cr racing intake and effing a... it is loud. Headaches both days I rode with it so far, and had a little sac tap too...but zero issues with throttle body icing or packing with snow. Really it's an amazing intake. The down sides of the cr won't matter too much if you are married and have all the kids you need, because the hearing loss is nice and your balls aren't useful anymore anyway.
I ordered a c3 intake so I'll let you know how it compares soon.
I ordered a c3 intake so I'll let you know how it compares soon.
