Hi, Has anyone installed a "Hypercharger" on their air intake system and does it improve the performance of the engine? I'm an NHRA fan and let's face it it the butterfly's look cool so it's pretty hard to get past the visual factor, but what about performance gains and what other mods need to be done to use it?

There are quite a few guys on here that run them. Im sure they'll check in......b.t.w.

It's a personal thing, alot of aftermarket kits are better than stock. IMHO the only thing the HC has going for it is the looks. I had one for a while and didn't like how it propped my leg out from the tank. some say they are hard to tune to also..in any case. You will want to free up the exhaust as well as the intake to get any gains..which will then require some jet work on the carb unless your FI.......

well her is mine . i think that it does add style and i too am partial to the butterflies. but there are better aircleaners out there.

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well her is mine . i think that it does add style and i too am partial to the butterflies. but there are better aircleaners out there.What would be considered (by opinion) to be the best?

Thanks for the welcome! Built a couple of bikes over the years but always had help doing the math. lol This is my first "V" so the science involved in the engine is much different than on the inlines I'm familiar with. I'm not here to just take from the clinic but to give back as well. So what I learn from you experts out there during this modification could be turned back around as a tech document or some form of info to help others.

Big waste of money to me and they are a pain to jet for beside they suck your vacuum. I get better performance out of a $40 K&N filter. I only kept mine for about 4 months before selling at a loss.

WELCOME from MN!!!!

Which aircleaner is best is subject to a lot of discussion, and is in many cases just as about aesthetics as it is function. The hypercharger IMHO is pretty dang good if set up with appropriate jetting and some good exhaust (I'm in the process of putting on their corsair cleaner with a kit from thunder! something about sucking in small animals is appealing form some weird reason )

If your looking for power gains though, you can't just drop on an aircleaner, leave everything else stock, and expect massive performance gains. Hence jetting (or remapping), and exhaust mods for starters. A lot of people that I have talked to that have said "BRAND X aircleaner is junk, it didn't do squat for performance" only changed the aircleaner and didn't tune anything, or rejetted but didn't do the exhaust, so performance gains were fairly mild. So I take a lot of that stuff with a grain of salt. What goes in, literally must come out, and you can have varying degrees of mods to handle it.