The facts.
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The GSX-S950 shares this airbox with the litre bike above it, but not the engine's intentions: Suzuki gave it a fuller middle rather than a chased peak, and that is where the choice between the two versions of this element is made. Everything the F1-85 medium adds over the standard P08 is capacity to pass air — 15,000 litres per square metre per second against 5,050 — and capacity of that kind is only ever spent at the top of the rev range with the throttle wide. On a version tuned to be enjoyed below that point, the advantage sits somewhere the rider rarely goes, and for the rest of every ride the extra capacity simply waits.
Key Features
- Racing-grade P08 F1-85 polyester, worked dry — no oil film anywhere ahead of the throttle bodies
- Rated at 15,000 litres per square metre per second, around three times the standard P08's 5,050
- Polyester threads from 22 µm diameter — the flow comes from the weave, not from a mesh coarser than the road P08's 80 microns
- Carried on a large media area, so low resistance comes from surface and not from a thinner barrier
- Goes into the series airbox as it stands: nothing cut, nothing remapped
- Cleaned with an air line and used again; two years of cover run from the day of purchase
Where the extra capacity would be spent
Air demand climbs with revs and with throttle opening, and only in the last third of the rev range does a road airbox look like a restriction at all. The 950 was tuned to make its case earlier than that. Ridden the way the model invites — a firm roll-on out of a bend, short bursts, an engine that answers early — the intake is nowhere near its limit, and an element with three times the flow of the standard one has nobody asking for it.
What the extra flow asks in return
The flow does not come from a more open mesh, whatever the name suggests. Sprint Filter's comparison — 95.22 per cent of 100-micron test particles held by the F1-85 against 93.13 for the P08 — puts the racing weave slightly ahead, and the 85 in its name is no pore size. What it asks in return is an engine that uses it, and racing supplies one: intake and exhaust built to breathe, an engine's life counted in hours under load. If this GSX-S950 is ridden by the road book and the odometer on a standard intake, the extra flow goes unused and the standard P08 in the same fitment is the better-argued part. Built up and ridden hard, the F1-85 becomes the obvious choice.
Care and cleaning
Service on the PM236S F1-85 is short work: an air line held to the clean face, blowing outwards until the media is clear. Where a season has left more behind it washes in lukewarm water with a mild detergent, then dries in open air alone — no heat gun, no flame near it. It goes back into the airbox dry. The maintenance sheet sits in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
Made for the Suzuki GSX-S950, 2022 to 2026, seating in the standard airbox with nothing altered around it. Four machines in the range take this same element; the complete list is in the Fitment tab.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Suzuki GSX-S950 (2022–2026)
- Suzuki GSX-S1000 (2022–2026)
- Suzuki GSX-S 1000/GT/GX (2022–2026)
- Suzuki Katana (2022–2026)
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