Takegawa Power Silent Oval INSTALLED!!

[vamootsman]

If you pay the shipping you can have my Stock pipe

[dasshreddar]

Sendler, believe me when I say I want to try that! It's just that if I don't like it, I've ruined a $60-80 pipe (current ebay value). Although who knows what the demand is for a stock exhaust on a scooter!

Also, my goal is not just performance, but weight savings. My idea for fabbing up a custom one using the stock headpipe should save me about 7-8lbs. Concerned about volume (noise) though. Anyway, we'll see. Need to pull the trigger on this. Would really like to find the pipe I'm looking at and inspect it in person, but that's not the way the world works anymore! It's all on the internet. At least for this obscure stuff.

ScooterMan if you have not seen my pipe already... it works, currently less than $60 on amazon. WAY light, but loud.
I've baffled mine because it was too loud for me, but un-corked it gave power.

[ScooterMan]

If you pay the shipping you can have my Stock pipe

I like that offer Vamootsman! I would just tell you to cut off the pipe at the entrance to the muffler!

If you're serious, I'll take you up on that offer!

[you you]

You can get the same type of back pressure reduction and added noise by drilling the stock muffler. And you get to keep the catalyst for cleaner air. And it's free. I missed the first couple locations and ended a bit too large and loud. I was enlarging it one hole at a time and listening while revving on the center stand but it is a bit louder when actually loading up full throttle on the road. I would probably recommend using about 2/3 of the area that I ended up with.
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Drilling on the bottom keeps it out of sight and puts the exhaust gas down and away from the bike. And drilling at the front area of the can means you are still using most of the volume but still eliminating the long, skinny pipe that goes from the front of the can all the way to the outlet.
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Back pressure is designed in an is useful...

[ScooterMan]

^^^WHich is why in all forms of motorsports they run restrictive exhausts right? =P

Pipe diameter and design matter up to the muffler. From that point, it should be as free flowing and straight thru as possible. Where wthings get messed up and where people lose torque is because they buy a larger diameter pipe thinking it will be faster.

[sendler2112]

A quiet exhaust has lots of unwanted back pressure. This is the price we pay for quiet.

[vamootsman]

If you pay the shipping you can have my Stock pipe

I like that offer Vamootsman! I would just tell you to cut off the pipe at the entrance to the muffler!

If you're serious, I'll take you up on that offer!

Deal. I won't have time to mess with it til next week, but I'll get it done.

[ScooterMan]

If you pay the shipping you can have my Stock pipe

I like that offer Vamootsman! I would just tell you to cut off the pipe at the entrance to the muffler!

If you're serious, I'll take you up on that offer!

Deal. I won't have time to mess with it til next week, but I'll get it done.

Cool Yeah, hacksaw or whatever it off as close to the muffler canister as possible. Let me know what shipping is and I'll send you the $$$ paypal. And just to clarify, I only need the headpipe section, not the muffler.

[vamootsman]

Cool Yeah, hacksaw or whatever it off as close to the muffler canister as possible. Let me know what shipping is and I'll send you the $$$ paypal. And just to clarify, I only need the headpipe section, not the muffler. [/quote]


Oh! Glad you clarified that!