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Look Ma! No water! ;D
It's supposed to rain this weekend, so I'm hoping I get a chance to take it out on the road and see what happens. The wife will get to play recovery duty with my trailer in the event that this doesn't help the issue.

Ok, let's start putting things back together. First we clean the area where the intake goes back together with some more alcohol, then I put some foam weather stripping around the fitting to get a nice tight seal. Dry off the filter and pipe with some paper towels and then we tighten things down.

After cleaning off the pipe with my alcohol, I took a piece of heavy plastic tarp, cut it to about 2.5 x's the size of the hole and used duct tape to affix it to the pipe. Since it temporary anyway, this should suffice to block the hole.

Look! I found a use for those surgery gloves that JR loves to wear!
(I didn't actually stuff that in the hole)

Ok, so let's open her up and see what we've got. I keep the bike in the garage, so the water you see on the filter and pipe must have come from JR's soaking. Daggum it if he's always right!

In this photo you can see the intake color change from chrome to the black rubber boot that connects onto the motor.

You can also see that black grommet which is probably for a MAF sensor or something that works on another bike. I'll check to make sure it is solid and doesn't leak water.

The connections are tight. I once had the intake boot loosen off the motor while I was riding so I check it, the hex bolts, and the mounting brackets periodically to make sure they are all tight.

I'll give the water test a try and see if I find any water inside. This will also give me an excuse to show you the inside of the intake.

In this photo, you are looking at the intake from the rear. You will see that there is a lip of about 1/4-1/2 inch welding inside the intake pipe which I assume is to keep the water from running inside.

The circle in the middle is the actual air intake area and the silver/chrome piece that you see inside that hole is the top of the air filter itself. It is a cone shaped filter similar to what I run in my little 4 banger.

The two lines on the right side of the photo show the intake where it runs into the motor itself. It isn't angled as steeply as I had thought it was. I would say the angle is only a degree or two at most.