Removing air box rubber intake on XR

[The Tot]

Hi all, i've been fettling and doing some home maintenance with my bike this morning and discovered that by you get a nicer, throatier sound by removing the airbox cover. I then realised that on the rubber intake, the are 3 holes but the middle one is plugged - i used a scalpel to unplug the middle channel to allow more air throuh and replaced the airbox.

Upon further fettling, i removed the rubber completely as shown in my diagrams. Other than sound, what are the advantages of doing such things - i assume that fuelling may be messed up to to more air intake so i'll be needing your responses ASAP before i start chewing down plugs I still want by bike to sound nice - i checked exhaust and there are no restrictors as such.

Cheers all

Titot
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The Tot 2019 Z1000SX - 2007 R1
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[cagiva gezzer]

Funky pics.
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[The Tot]

Cheers Cagiva geez, took about 10 mins to do on pro desktop-

Anyway, i've returned the rubber inlet back to where it should be, but completely shelled out the cavity so that it's completely hollow, allowing a greater volume of air through. Probably end up more rich - noticed this when i accidentally fumigated my garage, going out well light headed - oh well, reduced fuel cons and increased plug wear - i can probably sort those things out in due course.
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The Tot 2019 Z1000SX - 2007 R1
Never argue with autism

[Smoto Bob]

Easy ways to tune a 125 4 stroke
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Sell it and get a 2 stroke

Dont think its going to even be restriced tito not realy worth faffing with mate.
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[mchaggis]

I did something a bit similar to mine (in my MS Paint scrawl, see the 'inlet tunnel'); it made a nicer, louder sound, but I didn't notice any particular difference to the performance of the machine.

What I don't understand is why this 'tunnel' is in there in the first place, it's not even facing the right way to create 'ram air' , and with it in, only the last inch or so of the filter gets used, and the inlet apeture is about half as large. Why not just make the air box opening the right size to begin with?