dt175 air box or unifilter

[twinrock]

 hey guys i started my re assemble after a clean and paint of a dt175 1980 i bought , my first off road bike after riding road 2 strrokes all my life...in just wondering whats the change in performance on a dt175 air box..no air box, road stuff ive had.(rd/rz0 seem to loose a bit of bottom...personally i like the no air box look and hassle freeness.. i also read some where that a early 90s cr125 is a good chamber to adapt on to this engine..thanks..

[vandy010]

i'll jump in rocky,
i had an 85 DT175 that i loved and as it was only a hack bike, fell victim to some experimentation. i gutted the stock pipe as they're heavilly restricted with baffles on the inside, fitted a smaller mx style silencer, cut huge holes through the airbox, jacked up the arse end by welding a spacer to the top shock mount, fitted some heavy duty fork springs that came from god knows where but they worked. on trail rides it was just so much fun, good clean trailie power, low to the ground, so was easy to manouver. my only real gripe was the gearbox ratios. i think i ran a real small front sprocket too.
have fun with it man!

[twinrock]

cool sounds exactly what im wanting to do as for the pipe restrictions/ how hard was it to remove, did u cut the pipe open cross section, or along the seams...thanks

[vandy010]

it was an 85 model pipe, so i'm not sure if it's the same as yours but it was cut along the seam and only in the main barrel part of the pipe as thats where the restrictor is. look for the spot welds cause that means theres something inside.