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I have made quite a few changes to my bike (05 america) one of them being fitting K&N pods, I decided I wanted to keep the battery where it is, and instead of removing the air box I decided to convert it too a tool box.
hopefully the following pics will show you how I did the conversion.


firstly I removed the air box and cut off the two tubes that used to connect to the carbs.



after removing the top, I made up a steel plate to fit inside the air box, this plate becomes the fourth wall of the tool box,



after refitting the top I made up two blanking plates to close up the holes at the front of the air box, these were glued with araldite (epoxy resin)




I fitted a bracket to the front top of the now tool box to give suport, after drilling and tapping a hole in the frame.
you can also see in this pic that I have fitted a steel plate over what used to be the air inlet hole, ( again stuck with resin) and this now becomes the lid to the tool box.




I then painted the whole thing with matt black and fitted it to the bike, you can see in the next pics that I have done away with the cheese graters and some modification is needed to the left side panel that sits over the battery, I hope the pic is self explanetary as to what I did to it.





here is the view from the right side.




and a couple of more pics to show how the bike looks.







hope I have explained in enough detail the steps I took to complete the job. the finished tool box is not massive but is big enough for a basic tool kit, and it shows that you dont have to remove the air box in order to fit K&N pods.

since doing this mod I have made up some mid mount foot controls these have transformed the ride for me, no more sore butt on long rides and a much better for getting feed back from the bike.
I will post pics of that mod as soon as I can get the pics together.

as you can see I have tried again this time I made sure the code ended in jpeg, still didnt work so can someone help here please....

Two problems. Your image tags weren't closed. You need an
[image] opener and a [/image] closer.

Second, you're URLs had double http:// in front of them. Not sure how that happened.

I think I know how the double http happened, when you open the image code that is already there and you have to get rid of it or paste over it. If you click so the existing http is still there but no longer highlighted you will end up with 2.

I always open the image I want to post to full size in photobucket then next to it is a list of links. If you click the direct link it automaticly copies it. Then paste that into the UBB box.

You can also paste that direct link right into where you type and just put [image] at the front and [/image] at the end manually.

Probably.