da lowdist...

[makenzie71]

didn't have the materials handy to do the full exhaust I had intended to build this evening so I just modified the hell out of a stock header to exit on the left side. With luck I'll be able to use the midpipe later when I DO have all the materials handy. Unfortunately for me the carbon fiber for the can is taking all night to set up so I just settled for a cut-off at the moment. My true dual dumps were loud...this is just stupid:











Need to grind all the welds down and polish it up and it'll look pretty spiffy I think. I certainly like it so far.

[pantablo]

thats got to be REDICULOUSLY loud...

[makenzie71]

A lot like this...

http://www.photoartclub.net/tl3/cc2.mpg

...just a little louder.

(I think that's the right clip)
(not that a clip online is a real testement of volume)
(the Jared guy who does the Subway commercials is a total fanny bandit)

[Turd Ferguson]

Does it even sound good though?  Any open header vehicle I've heard is just too raspy and rough to enjoy.

Take a welding course dude...cause...damn.

-Turd.

[Blu_Spd_Dmon]

ill bet thats LOUD, but don't melt your shoe.

[Mk1inCali]

I threw up (a lot) into my mouth when I looked at your bike.


Maybe concentrate on cleaning the bike or even matching the painted bits before hacking more of it apart just because you are bored.


Why is everything that we have seen from you half-assed, because "you didn't have the materials handy"?

[makenzie71]

Does it even sound good though? Any open header vehicle I've heard is just too raspy and rough to enjoy.

Sounds badass at higher RPM...it's not really raspy but it is noisy.  Idle sounds like the flubber-car though...quality funny...

Maybe concentrate on cleaning the bike or even matching the painted bits before hacking more of it apart just because you are bored.

Why is everything that we have seen from you half-assed, because "you didn't have the materials handy"?

...they're unfinnished projects you illiterate twit.  Before making retarded comments about other people's work you should consider taking some time to learn how to read.  My bike is a testbed for 15 different products...with that much shaZam! going on it's hard to do things like worry about whether the colors match or if there's a little dirt and grime on her.

[RVertigo]

Looks only matter if you're trying to impress someone shallow...

Take me for example.   

[94suzuki500]

I am not for the open header pipes but cool projects you have going on.  Thats how it was when I had my gs.  I had that thing apart trying out different things probably more than I rode it.

[makenzie71]

I'm just waiting for a couple parts to come in to build up a carbon can for her...she's not going to be run open pipes again.  Had waaaayyyyyy too much trouble mapping her right for that...

[werase643]

Mak,
what is whith the super ghetto seat?

also that is a serious RAT BIKE.....

[RVertigo]

what is whith the super ghetto seat?

I think he said something about not having time to make it look nice...

I recall reading something about it...


Looks comfy. 

[werase643]

I just read where he likes rock hard dirt bike seats.....just wondering

[makenzie71]

I had to cut the seat back to clear the TLR tank...I needed a tank and that's what I had.  On top of that, Kalee has a hard time riding pillion so I added about an inch of padding to the front seat and extended the rear seat a little bit, then just wrapped vinyl around them...it puts Kalee closer to me and makes it a littler harder for her to slide around on the seat.

The DRZ's seat isn't "hard"...I'd say it was just right...

[Mk1inCali]

Maybe concentrate on cleaning the bike or even matching the painted bits before hacking more of it apart just because you are bored.

Why is everything that we have seen from you half-assed, because "you didn't have the materials handy"?

...they're unfinnished projects you illiterate twit.  Before making retarded comments about other people's work you should consider taking some time to learn how to read.  My bike is a testbed for 15 different products...with that much shaZam! going on it's hard to do things like worry about whether the colors match or if there's a little dirt and grime on her.

"High mount" setup for the GS.  Looks pretty half-assed and unfinished to me, even when you put it For Sale here at gstwin with most people agreeing with me.  Got any pictures of stuff that you HAVE finished?  I still fail to see where my comments make me even remotely close to an "illiterate twit".

You have time to post as much as you do, do the whole wind generator experiments and still can't finish up the 15 different products you are "testing"?  I DO fail to see where you are hiding the 15 different products you are testing.  Please enlighten me, oh glorious motorcycle expert!

[makenzie71]

your inabillity to read makes you an illiterate twit...not too hard to link the two.

the high mount was posted on the bike as it was ONLY because that's the only time I had the setup AND the bike in the same place.  It was CLEARLY written that it was not the finnished product and was ONLY posted to show the location of the muffler.  The fact that this information has been posted what...nine times now?...and you've as of yet FAILED, miserably, to comprehend the meaning of the words, makes you an illiterate twit.





...bout the best that can be done with a worn out MIG welder without grinding everything down to the point of compramise.



People seem to love buying the swingarm kits...

Don't have a pic handy of the mak-box but people have thought they looked nice enough to have bought over 30 of them.

Not sure what all you're expecting me to have here...my projects go out the second they're done.  I've mentioned that, before, too...numerous times...but I wouldn't expect you to have caught on to that, either.

[Mk1inCali]

your inabillity to read makes you an illiterate twit...not too hard to link the two.

the high mount was posted on the bike as it was ONLY because that's the only time I had the setup AND the bike in the same place.  It was CLEARLY written that it was not the finnished product and was ONLY posted to show the location of the muffler.  The fact that this information has been posted what...nine times now?...and you've as of yet FAILED, miserably, to comprehend the meaning of the words, makes you an illiterate twit.

[img]http://www.photoartclub.net/tls/another1.jpg[img]

[img]http://www.photoartclub.net/tls/another2.jpg[img]

...bout the best that can be done with a worn out MIG welder without grinding everything down to the point of compramise.

[img]http://www.photoartclub.net/tls/tls11.JPG[img]

People seem to love buying the swingarm kits...

Don't have a pic handy of the mak-box but people have thought they looked nice enough to have bought over 30 of them.

Not sure what all you're expecting me to have here...my projects go out the second they're done.  I've mentioned that, before, too...numerous times...but I wouldn't expect you to have caught on to that, either.

Your production timeline is irrelevant to this argument.

I'll concede on the high mount point...I had originally only looked at the pictures and didn't read the thread beyond people bagging on your choice of muff for it.  My main issue with you is you seem to be happy doing stuff quite sloppily and have little pride in workmanship/overall product quality beyond it being "done" and ready to sell.  I have tended to shy away from threads of yours because of this reason, and I'm not going to page through them now to familiarize myself with your production history.

Maybe your standard of "quality" is different than my own and call me snobby/not a true mechanic because I tend towards bolting stuff on, but I sure would not be giving you any money to modify/make parts for any of my bikes.


Aside from all of that, I do have an honest question about the seat, it looks like you've got zip-ties either holding the plastics on, or the undertail to the frame rails.  Curious about which it is.

[makenzie71]

No one asked you to buy any of my products...and I'm not too hurt to lose you as a potential customer.  I tend to only deal with people capable of reading. I prefer customers who buy playboys to look at the pictures and read the articles.

Zip-ties do a vaiety of jobs on my bike...likely wht you're seeing are the ties I had just put on to hold the undertail tray to the subframe.  They came back off shortly after, which is why the "tails" weren't removed.  Their location and what they do is fairly obvious if you look at the pictures.

[Mk1inCali]

No one asked you to buy any of my products...and I'm not too hurt to lose you as a potential customer.  I tend to only deal with people capable of reading. I prefer customers who buy playboys to look at the pictures and read the articles.

Zip-ties do a vaiety of jobs on my bike...likely wht you're seeing are the ties I had just put on to hold the undertail tray to the subframe.  They came back off shortly after, which is why the "tails" weren't removed.  Their location and what they do is fairly obvious if you look at the pictures.

Wow...I just lost that much more respect for you.  Try working on your command of the english language as much as you have (repeatedly) berated me for not reading your sloppy posts over time.

Do you honestly believe I asked you about the zipties because I didn't see what they were connected to?  Please...

[pantablo]

I prefer customers who buy playboys to look at the pictures and read the articles.

why bother with the articles?