have to agree, that's why I did this to mine rather than chop off the whole lot...a likeness to some YZ Yamaha intakes
another favourit so called tuning mod often seen suggested is to remove the intake snorkel...it sounds horrid when you do, so here again I did something different
and fitted a set of boyesen reeds
I don't believe that any of these mods did any harm, however I never dyno'd it so cant be surre of any improvement or not