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Exhaust pipes
florence:
Spitfire, those were the original pipes, these are Motad pipes which I suspect do not have such a good layer of chrome and we do get a lot of mud around here which I am far to lazy to kick off. ;) Even so, they have lasted for ten years so I do see what you mean.
Matthewmosse, good idea, I could weld some pipe onto the good bits of the down-tube. I am getting ideas of some dreadful Frankenstein pipework which will look awful but be functional and I'm liking it already. I did see a picture of a brilliant cb550 which had a home-made exhaust and I was very impressed, although I suspect it was too loud to be of use really.
matthewmosse:
Yea gods, that's horrific! bet you'd be pulled over in 5 minutes cos it's Very obviously not standard. If it looks semi normal then you'll probably get away with some manky loud pipes, best I had was bsa rocket 3 silencer (70's raygun type - now quite rare) that had been welded onto a bsm system whose silencer had rusted - I swear the thing amplified the engine noise. I heard the seller delivering the outfit a clear 6 miles from my home, yet the bike was never stopped by the old bill in the 100, 000 miles it was set up like that. If you're up for welding things a good bet would be to trawl a local bike breakers for any 4 cylinder system the right diameter in the headers dept and adjust the inlet angle with some carefull cutting and welding. That is if nothing better suited turns up on evilbay and new is too costly.
florence:
good idea, I only included that [picture as a joke, i would never put anything like that on my bike.
I like your idea of adapting another system. I don't know how hard it would be to line up though. Sometimes even the proper ones can be difficult. I will keep looking out for something and in the meantime, more gun-gum. Motads have gone up to about
SteveD CB500K0:
If you have the facilities (and the skill), you could buy an old Motad and cut off the headers. Then either make your own can or adapt an eBay bargain.
Like this:
The can is homemade.
florence:
Very nice job Steve, I have thought about that or my preferred and latest idea is to get two down-pipes for each side and make up a 4/2 system.
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