Aug 14
More exhaust changes.
So here are the pics of the exhaust:
This is the can that I had on the bike up at fighter fest.
Then the next version was this tip I made on the road in Jersey. What I did was hammer-in a pipe-adapter that I cut up and bent in to make a baffle, then slid the chrome tip over it. This fell out because I had tried to tap it into the end of the header, but I didn’t tap it in very far as I only had my little toolkit with me at the time. Anyway, it did it’s job. It got me home and that was it’s primary purpose.
And this is the can I put on last evening. My two main goals were to attach something on the header that would sit under the bike, because that looks kick-ass, and if possible to have something with a deeper tone. With the can at FF and the tip I had made, both sounded very buzzy. I wanted something that sounded less like a mosquito and more like a bumblebee.
I started with a short but fat ricer can, which has some perforated pipe and muffling material in it, but was too wide-open at the end to really do much other than look shinny. I fixed that by making a baffled tip which I hammered into the end of the can. I then used this “muffler-weld” stuff, which looks to be some sort of clay blended with a resin/epoxy to seal up both where I hammered-in the tip, and where the can attached to the header.
Here’s some more detail:
The tone of the exhaust is much nicer now. At idle and low RPM it sounds like a 1000 or maybe even a twin or triple. The tone of the exhaust note raises as the RPMs do, but it’s no longer buzzy which was one of my goals. I’ll probably end-up painting the whole thing flat black; but for now it’s doing it’s job.