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I'm not sure about the US spec, but on the UK 748/916/996s There are some large rubber bungs that are fitted in the air tubes when the bikes are new. You can check if these are fitted by removing the tank and looking into where the airtubes meet the airbox. You'll need to seperate the 2 halfs of the airtubes to remove them.
You'll know if they're there as these are fairly substantial pieces of rubber that are designed to restrict the airflow into the airbox.
Most bikes would have probably had these removed though I reckon.
I think that US spec bikes do have diferent specifications to the Euro equivalents (for example the Bostrum 998 was a 998S in Europe, but only a stock 998 in the US) - but I'm not sure about the 996S.
Shazaam, Skidlids, you boys are usually pretty good on this stuff.
Tim
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