I installed the air intake kit and removed the SAS crud and took the bike for a spin. The bike still ran like crap below 4000 rpm. So for a final push to succeed in taming the beast, I took all three MAP sensors off, cleaned them, swapped out the vacuum tubing and cleaned the brass fittings on the sides of the manifold and guess what. IT RUNS FANTASTIC!!!    
Had I known then what I know now, it would have taken me $1.25 and a couple hours work to fix a bike that could not run below 4000RPM or below 40000 feet.
For all you KTM owners: Your Adventure bike has 1 Mass air pressure sensor behind the front headlight and 2 manifold air pressure sensors located on ether side of the throttle bodies. Your manifold vent hose, vents into the airbox depositing little bits of crud down the throttle bodies. This crud then finds it's way into the manifold vacuum holes and clogs the brass fittings that the MAP sensors plug into. Also I found that the vacuum lines themselves were rigid and no longer held a solid vacuum. They slid right off the brass and sensor with ease.
Case closed........
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