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I am in the middle of a cafe racer project where I swapped out the engine in my CM400A with one out of a CM450E. I heard that they use the same carburetor but when I went to install the old one on the new engine, I noticed the holes in the new engine have a slightly larger bore (didn't measure...

Thanks. I've seen a few pics now with a small cone filter added to the tube and pointed to the front and some with just a longer tube directed downward. Any advantages of one method over the other?

I am working on a 1980 CM400a, replacing the engine with one from a 1982 CM450e. One of the things I am doing is replacing the big ugly filter box with pod filters and I am wondering what is normally done with the crank case vent tube that used to run to the filter box.