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I'm on the look out for some silencers for my 1200 trophy.The Motad ones on the bike have been on there for 22 years so not bad.They will probably last another 5 The black chrome ones look quit smartMaybe some for the old Hondas the cafe racer boys would love those.You wont see those going blue Bitsa.
On the other hand the chances of me buying a complete silencer are smaller than me buying just the collector for my special the exhaust kind of defines the bikes looks. I am afraid for my bike the motad chrome system for the 500/4 whilst if fitted well and did the job just wasn't the look I really want to end up with, too restrained and sensible. I don't necessarily want the full on noise of the preformace / free flowing exhausts, there Motad have the good factor, you can ride 500 miles without ringing ears at the end of the trip, but for a lot of specials the 2 motad systems I have in the shed are a bit 'safe' in the styling department. Maybe even the gatling gun look of the dunstall system I have at the end of the silencer might give the something wild factor I am after. Just my thoughts. It wouldn't take much if any tooling up, just make the first section of the silencer and the customer can add a end can to suit their bikes look. My ntv650 has a ducatti end can shoved on on this basis - somehow looks and sounds great, lovely bark if given the beans, nearly inaudible to me cruising through town in a high gear.
I don't have a problem selling separate parts to experienced people- so a set of Motad pipes and also making a short collector to allow someone to add/make their own silencer is not a problemwhere it gets difficult is someone less able (like me!) fitting a system badly/dangerously and also the problem that generally to make a system road legal and work you need a silencer around the size of the one we supply- short and racy looks good but is often terrible on power if legal
Ian, looking for a bit of advise. Have a set of Honda 323's that were nos. Unfortunately they have been fire damaged. The metal is still in good condition but, have the down pipes a little out of shape. I have spoken to a few company's that have mandrel pipe benders but, they say it is not possible because the down pipes are double skin and all they could do is cut the down pipes from the silencer and form a set of single skin down pipes to be wielded to the silencers.Do you know of anyone in the UK that could do double skin pipes? Or any ideas on repair?
Hi Ian, I did point out that this was a NOS (new old stock) set. The metal is new, just a little out of shape from fire damage. No wielding or anything like that needed. There is no problem re-chroming with a set in this condition. The only problem is how to put them back in to shape seeing that they are double skinned. How do they manufacture double skin units?
Quote from: Trigger on November 17, 2014, 09:03:25 AMHi Ian, I did point out that this was a NOS (new old stock) set. The metal is new, just a little out of shape from fire damage. No wielding or anything like that needed. There is no problem re-chroming with a set in this condition. The only problem is how to put them back in to shape seeing that they are double skinned. How do they manufacture double skin units?the double skinning is done with complex (and pipe specific) mandrels and once bent the fixings are attached which would stop their use againthink that the problem you will have is that any skilled metal worker is going to need to introduce heat to the pipe to "encourage" it back into shape and this heat is going to discolour the chrome