air intake mods and rain?

[Bearster18]

I have an 09 raider and I was looking at the different air intakes for this thing and I'm curious if the rain would affect any of these?  LIke the Baron stealth kit, ect? I bought the bike with a PC 3 and cobra swept exhaust on it so now I need to add an intake and dyno it. I ride all the time and sometimes I get caught in the rain, so i don't want to install one that rain will cause bad effects ya know? what do you guys think?

[dreadly]

No issues with rain as all kits are under the tank like the OEM filter.

[Bearster18]

Good deal , thanks man! I was really hoping the Baron wasn't affected by rain. Its a pretty good looking setup from what I'm researching.

[Capt_Zoom]

No issues with the baron's BAK and rain. 

[PhysicsDude55]

OEM intakes usually use paper air filters, which are affected by rain, but every aftermarket intake that I'm aware of uses a K&N style air filter, which repels water, so rain isn't an issue for them.

Many bikes use exposed filters (like a functional spike filter) and don't have any issues in the rain, because the K&N style filters don't let water through them.

So no, you won't experience any issues with rain.

[dreadly]

OEM intakes usually use paper air filters, which are affected by rain,

How so?

I've had an OEM filter for 3 years and rode in the rain more times than I care to remember ... never had an issue.

[mddrummer911]

oem air box has snorkel that pulls air from the back, you would virtually have to have the bike completely under water to get anything up the snorkel

[PhysicsDude55]

OEM intakes usually use paper air filters, which are affected by rain,

How so?

I've had an OEM filter for 3 years and rode in the rain more times than I care to remember ... never had an issue.

I'm saying an OEM filter which is exposed to the rain.  The under-the-tank intake design used by virtually all bike manufacturers makes sure rain doesn't get into the intake, but for systems which are more exposed, a paper filter wouldn't work so well.

Thanks for the clarification though, I wasn't very specific.

Although, I figure even if BAK's used paper filters, they'd probably be OK, because most of them are under the tank anyways.

[Motodad393]

No issues with the Patrick Racing BAK.  Runs and performs flawlessly - no problem in the rain either.