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Stealth air cleaner kits
now CARB compliant
S&S Cycle has announced that it has
been issued with an Executive Order (EO
# D-355-11) by the California Air
Resources Board, which allows S&S
Stealth air cleaners to be installed on
Delphi EFI equipped Harley-Davidson
’36-’14 Big Twins and ’57-’13 Sportster
models.
All S&S Stealth air cleaner kits for
2001-up EFI models now come with a
special sticker and instructions for
applying it to an inconspicuous location
on the frame. So, if for some reason a
rider does get stopped, there is proof
that the S&S Stealth air cleaner is legal.
The S&S Stealth air cleaners feature

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES

an air directional stinger cone in the
filter, which is said to direct air smoothly
into the bore of the carburetor or EFI
throttle body for reduced turbulence
and increased flow. The air cleaner can
be used with the stock H-D Twin Cam
88, 96 or 103 air cleaner cover, or can
be used with any of several S&S
designed covers. High flow (1in taller)
filter kits are also available.
S&S CYCLE
La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
www.sscycle.com

Steve Yetzke adds Blower Drive Service to BDL stable
Steve Yetzke, President and CEO
of Belt Drives Limited (BDL), has
acquired Blower Drive Service
(BDS), a Whittier, California based
supercharger specialist founded
in 1969 by the Railsback family.

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Yetzke says that his immediate
goal is to increase manufacturing
output at BDS and make every
part used in BDS blowers “new
and in the USA. Many blower
manufacturers put used parts

AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - APRIL 2014

such as rotors and gears, and
even bearing plates into new
blower cases.
“While the entire BDS staff will
remain in place at their Whittier
facility, including Norma
Iskendarian as General Manager
and Craig Railsback in special
projects, the resources we bring
to the table at the new 50,000
square foot manufacturing
facility we moved BDL into in
Anaheim four years ago means
that BDS now has access to
increases in resources and
manufacturing output. This will
ensure that customers will be
able to walk through the door
and purchase a complete blower
drive assembly or replacement
parts right off the shelf.”
Back in the early 1970s, when
working at his father’s company
Pacific Broach, Yetzke was
involved with the design and
manufacturing of blower drive

gears for many of the best
known manufacturers at that
time, including Cragar.
His experience and market
position since then as a result of
founding and developing BDL
will see BDS able to exploit their
designs and grow sales – one of
Yetzke’s first actions as the new
owner was to increase an order
to the foundry from 30 to 200
blower cases, and with thousands
of pulleys and belts in stock he is
clearly eyeing significant
expansion.
His group already includes GMA,
the specialist brake caliper and
rotor brand that Yetzke
purchased from Bill Gardner in
2008 and the JAMAR program of
off-road sport and racing
machine components acquired
shortly afterwards.
www.beltdrives.com
www.blowerdriveservice.com

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