Exhaust system & mufflers in Auckland?

[Ricardo S]

my brother just bought his first motorbike, a bandit 250.
it came with the original exhaust. it was a bit loud, the bike wouldn't start moving if not rev'd to about 6krpm and the consumption was really bad too.

my first thoughts were that the packing in the muffler was long gonne and the exhaust was open so the vacuum/compression on the cylinders weren't ideal.

after calling around and trying to get someone to do the packing service (had a bad experience doing it by myself before) couldn't find a decent response - either they didn't know about how to do it on a street bike, couldn't get me a quote or would charge 2 hours + $50 for the fiber to do the service.

luckily i came across to Peter from custom chambers http://www.customchambers.co.nz/, on the phone he sounded like someone who knew what he was talking about and was happy to have a look at it.

went there and the service was great, he looked at it and knew all that needed to be done to fix the issue, (the original muffler was messed up with - probably a boy trying to make it sound better or go faster) after 30min cool down and 1 hour of work, cutting, welding, etc. the service was done and what a difference, the bike sounded way better and it now has much more torque on lower RPM's. i believe it will improve the fuel consumption as well. time will tell.

really nice chap to talk with, i got to learn that he is this business of custom/performance exhaust systems for a number of years and enjoys some off road riding

i'm happy to find someone that has a good knowledge and provides a great service and value and i would like to share the experience, maybe others will see it and re-think about their customer service standards.

cheers,
Ricardo

[Gremlin]

Yep, used Custom Chambers in the past for a couple of exhaust systems, and he's very good.

[AllanB]

Great to hear a good review.

[kermitt]

yeah he did a real good job on a custom one for the ntv a year ago still good as.

[Harris Ang]

After reading the OP i couldn't wait to get a new exhaust.. (the one i have looks pretty dodgy) I have sent a text to them.. hopefully by the end i'll have more good things to say!!

[The Pastor]

After reading the OP i couldn't wait to get a new exhaust.. (the one i have looks pretty dodgy) I have sent a text to them.. hopefully by the end i'll have more good things to say!!

hes a bit old school, maybe best to go an talk to him direct, dunno.

I've used peter for two rather big jobs. he's top notch

[shonofear]

hey,
so did he just fix/restore it to pretty much stock sound etc?
im considering about de-baffling my Bandit 250 as its hardly even noticeable
would this fella from Customchambers de-baffle an exhaust, or is it ilegal?
i got some instructions from a fella in a bike shop who encouraged me to do it myself, even wrote down a list of where to get the parts etc.
but seems i still need to do some welding/angle grinding which always worries me...

cheers

[DrunkenMistake]

hey,
so did he just fix/restore it to pretty much stock sound etc?
im considering about de-baffling my Bandit 250 as its hardly even noticeable
would this fella from Customchambers de-baffle an exhaust, or is it ilegal?
i got some instructions from a fella in a bike shop who encouraged me to do it myself, even wrote down a list of where to get the parts etc.
but seems i still need to do some welding/angle grinding which always worries me...

cheers

I dont think it will be legal,
I had little/no experience doing a debaffle, i have a new MTC twin port can coming from the UK so I figured I would give it a go on my GT650R, there is the outer casing of the can then a wrap of fiberglass then a copper tube, inside the copper tube is a small cylinder with a small inlet hole and on the opposite side a small outlet hole (this is the wee bit of pipe that sits out of the back of the can on many bikes) first I took out the entire lot, left the glass in as it was just a lets see how it sounds thing, put it loosely together and fired up the bike, sounded loud and had a nice throaty sound but it was to loud, so I left the baffle part in the exhaust (to get it out I had to open up the copper casing and I had no welder to weld it back together, and instead opted to drill decent sized and spaced holes in the bottom of the baffle and at the top, done this and reassembled and it sounds alot better, but has a slightly tinny effect after all it is a hole in the muffler haha,
So just be careful when removing the baffle professionally or by yourself, it may not be the sound your hoping for, plus by the time you have it all done it might be a little cheaper to get the likes of a damaged can off a 600 and shorten it where its damaged and have it put on the bike.
just a thought