Need Help Airboxless

[BigGreenMachine]

Last time I stripped my Tecate down I removed the airbox for a pod filter setup. The airbox is long gone now, sent to the dump.

Problem is that my riding area is a wet one and my UNI foam filter gets wet. I find myself creeping through streams and big puddles.

I've looked at Prefilters from K&N and Filterskinz from PC racing and neither look to give any water protection.

How about the "water repellant" PreFilters from K&N. Anyone with experience with using them? I need something to keep the water off my filter because 50% of my riding is wet weather.

[crackshot]

I have a UNI pod filter on daughters 110 and she plows through snow, mud and water with it. Have one of those outer sleeves on it.
I soak the hell outta it with oil, squeeze and install. Seems like it does great.

[BigGreenMachine]

I have a 86 K&N filter and two water repellant Outerwears for it. (for sale) I just tested the one outerwear under the sink and it did pretty good. Let through some water but not near as much as what just ran off. Expensive lil bastids though. Think I'll just keep a few spare filters with me.

Anyone else?

[scooterroo]

i ride on alot of wet places myself, i have no airbox whatso ever, alls i use is two outerwears covers, one over the other. i havent had any probs with my k&n filter getting wet yet, and trust me, it is wetter then wet where i live here in eastern ny.
some of the streams i cross are pretty deep too. try spraying your outerwears with some water repellent like you use on a tent or something, might add a bit of a barrier for yah.

[Jeb]

I called OuterWears a year or so ago and ordered a water repellant pre filter for my UNI POD that was on my Tri-Z. I measured the filter and ordered it to fit. Well, turns out that was the wrong thing to do. After the pre filter came in and was about to slide it onto a clean, freshy oiled UNI POD, I thought, hmm, what about all this filter oil getting on the pre-filter. So I called the guy up at OuterWears and asked him about oiling a UNI-POD with a cover on it and he said it should have been built big like a bag to go over the filter to keep filter oil out of the pre-filter. It was not supposed to fit snug like it would over a K&N.

So, I think they can make you one for the POD, but make sure you tell them up front.

Also, I told the guy I wanted a water resistant cover. He launched into a sermon about how the prefilters are water REPELLANT only and not water RESISTANT. He was real nice though and I could have sent the prefilter back for a free exchange but I never did.

Now I have a K&N on the Z. I need a water repellant cover for it. I see some of you guys are running two prefilters to repel water.

[BigGreenMachine]

Good advice. Makes perfect sense but I'm going to stick it out with some spare filters.

[BLAZERONE22]

:wondering I can ship you an airbox.... It mightbe a pain in the butt to get it back in there. but I do have a spare I think...

[BigGreenMachine]

I worked on a cheapo solution today. It included cutting cardboard templates of the openings between the frame and around the shock...then transfering them to blue 1/16th thick plastic then fitting them on the frame surrounding the pod filter. Left too many gaps.

Blazer, I want that airbox please!

[BLAZERONE22]

Okie doky.....