Air temp sensor

Wrecka

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When i cut my bearclaw down and installed my triple air filters i ziptied the Air temp sensor between two of the filters , without a filter covering it.
Bike is running strange when air temps are warmer now, runs fine in the morning when air is cool but ambient is hot it starts backfiring and has the occasional pop through the middle throttle body.

My question is could these symptoms occur if the sensor has become corrupted with grit and crud , if so can it be cleaned out without damaging it ?
 
i can't see that being a problem but u could check it with tunecu and compare to outside temp.
on cars when they first start up they are working on set data then they warm up the ecu goes into closed loop and the computer starts working off of the info of the oxygen sensor, temp sensor and the map sensor.
 
Why don't you install it into one of the other air filters?? Like you did with the oil breather....
 
One rather elegant solution I have seen here on the boards is to bore a small hole in the top of the #1 cylinder filter, install the AIT into it so the probe is inside the filter, but not blocking anything, seems like a good spot, but you'd have to hide that wire... somewhere.

Believe it or not, this is the EXACT reason I switched to a Ramairv2 setup, so much lazy, and so easy to install with it.


PS: If this is the bike with my tune, let me try something I'll send you an update see if it sorts the backfiring. Leme guess, it's doing it when you are in idle or clutch pulled in and blip the throttle?
 
You should put something over the tip to protect it. The K&N filter is overkill. I zip tied mine to he rail with the sensor between the front and middle throttle bodies. It works fine. The Ramair is a good solution but I don't want to use it. Putting it into a single filter sounds reasonable.
 
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