yea it would not hurt to pull a plug and look down in the butterflys with a light....bet you don't find anything....that foam burned up instantly i would assume.....lots of suction...i would go back to the stock filter; nothing wrong with them...
My vmax carbs talk to me when the bike is cold if i start it and just take off....Does not do it when i let it sit and warm up......have been told the slight popping is fairly normal....lol..
Mike i already have a some of them.....check out my pics....kinda of a brushed look...not quite as bad as yours....gets some flitz and polish them out...
i am going to install one too....i got caught on northwest highway in dallas the other morning in some serious morning traffic....temp guage would jump up to about 3/4...then come back down when i took off.....kinda worried me a little....never got in the red...
John i offered that dude 200 bucks for them well used Supertrapps that are on e-bay right now....he turned me down....lol....will probably still bid on them at the end of the auction....not over that amount thou......