I guess I'll share a little bit about what I've done with the sidepods. The background is, I wasn't really happy with the stock positioning of the DF Heat Exchanger for multiple reasons.
- Its right behind the radiator and tends to heat soak from it
- It requires tubes to be stuffed into the tunnel
- Its hard to get clean, cold air to the heat exchanger (without NACA ducts)
- I can't run NACA ducts and a hinged hood effectively
So, I went down the route of adding sidepods. I own a Suzuki DRZ400. One of the reasons its a great bike is because its been the same for 20 years. Parts are cheap. I decided using DRZ400 Radiators would be a good start. They are compact and cheap ($60 for a mid tier set).
I made some aluminum brackets with SendCutSend and mounted them on each side:
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These will eventually be encased with fiberglass so they look nice, but only if they work well enough. The radiators are each 120mm wide, so a standard computer or server fan(s) will work. For now, while it is not super warm outside, I am running it fanless. Yesterday it was 65-70F and cruising my IAT2's were ~85-90F after it was fully warmed up (and heat soaked). If I'm in the city or just idling it expectedly rises in temperature to 110-115F. Being that cruising temps are already ~20F over ambient I'm not sure that these are sufficient. I'm really debating buying something like
this to measure the IAT and IAT2 (since my ECU can't do both, I rewired 1 to 2). I'm curious how much its
actually heating up the air. It could be that the air intake is just pulling warm air from the engine bay. I started building an air box for the intake for this purpose, but there's just not all that much room to make it happen. I think that's the route I'm going to go for now, because I don't think there's any benefit to adding a fan as it won't allow for any additional airflow, except at slow speed.
Anyway, more to come soon.