The facts.
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The Z650RS was designed to be looked at, and its owners tend to agree — which rules out most of the usual modifications. An exposed cone filter changes the silhouette, the noise and the paperwork; a louder exhaust changes the character the bike was bought for. The Sprint Filter P08 PM163S changes none of it. It goes inside the standard airbox, behind the standard covers, and the motorcycle looks exactly as it did before. The only thing that changes is what the engine pulls its air through: woven polyester at a low, stable restriction instead of a paper element that is at its best on the day it is fitted.
Key Features
- Everything happens inside the standard airbox: no modification, no remap, no change to homologation
- The polyester is dry and has never been oiled, so no film can work its way onto the sensors or the throttle bodies
- Polyester thread from ø 22 microns, its aperture calibrated in the weave instead of pressed out of pulp
- Around double the filtering surface that other performance filters bring
- Washable and reused for as long as the bike is kept; compressed air is the normal service
- Two years of warranty, dated from the day the element is bought
The small openings, where a retro bike lives
This is not a motorcycle ridden at full throttle very often. It is ridden at a third of it, through towns and along back roads, where the whole experience is how cleanly the engine picks up from a small opening and how predictably it rolls on out of a corner. Peak power is beside the point, and no plug-in filter would raise it meaningfully anyway. Stable intake restriction, though, is exactly what makes those small openings behave the same in year five as in year one — and a washable element is how the restriction stays stable.
Nothing visible, nothing undone
Because the change is entirely internal, it is also entirely reversible and entirely neutral: no remap, no modification to the airbox, no effect on the bike's homologation, nothing to declare and nothing that dates the machine. For an owner who intends to keep a Z650RS standard and keep it for a long time, that combination is the point. The element is designed to last the life of the motorcycle, and warranted for two years from the date of purchase.
Care and cleaning
The service is short. Compressed air from the clean side, working outwards, and the element is back where it started. After a dirty season, lukewarm water with a mild detergent, rinsed until the water runs clear. Then it dries fully in open air — never with heat, never with a flame — and goes back in dry, unoiled as it has always been. The Sprint Filter maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
Made for the Kawasaki Z650RS, 2022 to 2026. The same PM163S element serves five machines built around this airbox, from the Versys 650 to the EN 650 Vulcan; the complete list is in the Fitment tab.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Kawasaki EX650 Ninja (2017–2026)
- Kawasaki Versys (2015–2026)
- Kawasaki EN 650 Vulcan/S (2015–2026)
- Kawasaki Z650 (2017–2026)
- Kawasaki Z650RS (2022–2026)
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