Aftermarket can advice......recommendations please

[Hitcher]

With ears full of rubber grommets, a helmet on my head and the wind going past it at speeds in excess of 100kmh, I can't actually hear much noise from my exquisitely customised exhausts. Meanwhile, in roadside paddocks, assorted farm animals are fleeing for their lives...

[vifferman]

Does it always end up in requiring the carbs to be re jetted? That cant be cheap

Sometimes all that's required is shimming the carb needles and adjusting the idle mixture. If you do it yourself (like I did with my VFR750 and VTR1000), it's very cheap ($0.00 in both cases).

[Boob Johnson]

Sometimes all that's required is shimming the carb needles and adjusting the idle mixture. If you do it yourself (like I did with my VFR750 and VTR1000), it's very cheap ($0.00 in both cases).

Im no mechanic

With ears full of rubber grommets, a helmet on my head and the wind going past it at speeds in excess of 100kmh, I can't actually hear much noise from my exquisitely customised exhausts. Meanwhile, in roadside paddocks, assorted farm animals are fleeing for their lives...

rofl Hitcher

[Boob Johnson]

Just found a local guy (parts dealer), races bikes etc (reminds me of that mechanic off Mad Max lol). Real friendly dude too, gunna custom build me a can to sound deep & throatie etc & wont require the carbs to be re jetted for $300 fitted


Rock on spanners Watson



ps: any Taranaki riders want this done, "TAP" in Ngaire is the go.

[MSTRS:Me]

That is real cheap. Keep us posted for the result. If it's all you expect, I think the Nqaire guy will have a number of orders....
PS - when you see him, tell him the Eliminator indicators did not work and had to get another pair - wrong resistance in the bulbs

[Boob Johnson]

That is real cheap. Keep us posted for the result. If it's all you expect, I think the Nqaire guy will have a number of orders....
PS - when you see him, tell him the Eliminator indicators did not work and had to get another pair - wrong resistance in the bulbs

Oh stinka! So you have delt with "Fly" before then? What was your impression of the man?


Yeah will keep u all up to date on the custom can. Ill prolly go ahead with it next week. Would do it tomorrow but he wants the bike for two days but im keen to go for a group ride on Thursday

[ynot slow]

Seems a good guy heaps of knowledge,how the hell he knows where/how his parts are beats me,has absolute shitloads of stuff,seems everyone who has operated out of the Ngaere garage was into speed, be it bikes or speedway,few late nights held there before.

[Hitcher]

The Ngaere Garage brings back many happy memories. I remember when it was owned by Geoff D'anvers and then Alan Jago of stockcar racing fame from the early 1970s. Alan operated the Taranaki VW franchise from Ngaere for a number of years -- I even bought a 1302S Beetle off him.

[MSTRS:Me]

Oh stinka! So you have delt with "Fly" before then? What was your impression of the man?


Yeah will keep u all up to date on the custom can. Ill prolly go ahead with it next week. Would do it tomorrow but he wants the bike for two days but im keen to go for a group ride on Thursday

He is a nice guy, very helpful, wasn't his fault that indicators were wrong for the bike (I was trying to get a particular 'look' to suit the bike). Let him have the bike for the time he asks...sometimes certain adjustments are reqd and these things can take a while, tho not usually. Patience Grasshopper.

[yod]

Just found a local guy (parts dealer), races bikes etc (reminds me of that mechanic off Mad Max lol). Real friendly dude too, gunna custom build me a can to sound deep & throatie etc & wont require the carbs to be re jetted for $300 fitted


Rock on spanners Watson



ps: any Taranaki riders want this done, "TAP" in Ngaire is the go.

oo pick me pick me!!

i got my RF a couple months back and the first thing i want to change is its can too
sounds like you might be onto a plan Boob, be interested to see how it turns out....

[avgas]

Deepends on what sort of growl you want (ok mabey i was a little obsessive about previous.......ok i admit, i did actually sit down one day, and analysed bike noises).
If you want a deep down, throaty growl like a rotty in a mob patch. You cant go past Laser pipes. Ugly as fuck though. But if you need a sound comparo ring klown tell him to run out to the garage and start his bike.
If you want to pick up the thunderous pulses of each stroke - two brothers.
If you want a mid-range howl like a timbre wolf, Micron
If you a low down scavenging roar - Supertrapp
If you want a nice note - like a tuned piano - custom chambers.
If you want hp, top end demon howl - Yoshi's
If you want loud bike noises (as in the same noises just louder) - Staintune.
Right i better go have a wank now cos i got myself all hard.

[Delphinus]

Good read avgas.

What about the RPM brand?

Local bike shop here have some carbon fibre ones on the wall for about $300.
Said the company usually do car exhausts and do the bike ones on the side. They have thrown a few on and dyno tuned and seem happy with em.

[Boob Johnson]

The Ngaere Garage brings back many happy memories. I remember when it was owned by Geoff D'anvers and then Alan Jago of stockcar racing fame from the early 1970s. Alan operated the Taranaki VW franchise from Ngaere for a number of years -- I even bought a 1302S Beetle off him.

WOW, Alan Jago, now there's a name ive not heard in YEARS! I used to watch him race at Stratty speedway. Ill never forget the last time I saw him, he was coming last & with half a lap to go he passed the entire field ON THE OUTSIDE & won lol, just amazing, damn that VW could go

oo pick me pick me!!

i got my RF a couple months back and the first thing i want to change is its can too
sounds like you might be onto a plan Boob, be interested to see how it turns out....

Rgr tht, will keep you all posted

Deepends on what sort of growl you want (ok mabey i was a little obsessive about previous.......ok i admit, i did actually sit down one day, and analysed bike noises).
If you want a deep down, throaty growl like a rotty in a mob patch. You cant go past Laser pipes. Ugly as fuck though. But if you need a sound comparo ring klown tell him to run out to the garage and start his bike.
If you want to pick up the thunderous pulses of each stroke - two brothers.
If you want a mid-range howl like a timbre wolf, Micron
If you a low down scavenging roar - Supertrapp
If you want a nice note - like a tuned piano - custom chambers.
If you want hp, top end demon howl - Yoshi's
If you want loud bike noises (as in the same noises just louder) - Staintune.
Right i better go have a wank now cos i got myself all hard.

Nice work avgas

[Sanx]

That is real cheap. Keep us posted for the result. If it's all you expect, I think the Nqaire guy will have a number of orders....
PS - when you see him, tell him the Eliminator indicators did not work and had to get another pair - wrong resistance in the bulbs

Stick a bypass resistor over the indicator to shunt the majority of the current. Usually fixes the fast flash-rate problem.

[avgas]

Good read avgas.

What about the RPM brand?

Local bike shop here have some carbon fibre ones on the wall for about $300.
Said the company usually do car exhausts and do the bike ones on the side. They have thrown a few on and dyno tuned and seem happy with em.

I think they stole the design from other co's. RPM's car mufflers seem to only have a decent growl from about 1/3 rev (made them good for vvti, vvt etc). I imagine looking at the bike pipes that they are a more top end growl.