[jguthr]

My 73.5 T has CIS...and I love it. It's a daily driver in all weather conditions and runs like a dream...with the exception of backfire at start up every so often. Thank God for pop-off valves! However, I will admit it's a bit tame. At the risk of being labelled a poser I'm not talking tame in the sense of performance, rather sound. I'm fine using all 140 horses as much as possible instead of using 140 of 200. I'm not looking to swap out the stock exhaust because I'm not just looking for more noise. I'm looking for more "growl" and only at WOT. The other day I was changing out the air filter and decided to take a short drive with everything off the air box. Wow! Now that was more like it. Of course this is not an option. I then just threw on the stock air filter and took it out again. To my surprise the sound was almost identical to that without a filter. Lastly, I tried a K&N filter with the air box cover and didn't notice much difference from the stock set up. So now I'm getting optimistic. How can I secure the stock filter to the air box without the stock air box cover while at the same time keeping water out of the system? With all the CIS systems out there I'm surprised nobody's come up with anything to replace the music-muting stock set up. Any ideas?