shortened stock muffler

[dread]

I'm just confused on what you cut do you cut the end off the original pipe and you just weld pack on the little black tip thingy back on at the end of the new shortened pipe correct?

[The Buddha]

Pull the exhaust off and look @ the part that is facing the wheel.
Follow from the part starts. There is a spot weld about 6" in.
There the muffler has the first baffle part - aka - a piece like a pasta sauce bottle top welded shutting of the flow except for a hole the size of a dime and that has a tube taking it to the part near the open tip ... except it doesn't go to the outside ... it has another baffle there, and there it doubles back into a center chamber and from there exits through a tiny hole to a pipe to the outside.

Anyway find that spot weld, and hack it near it ... you actually dont even have to cut it before it really. Its better to cut it after it ... If it was left in place, you can screw the end cap to it using sheet metal screws.

Then you can cut a hole in the middle of that.
Then cut the end cap off the part you have "cut off".
Then get perforated metal and scroll it and stuff it in the hole you drilled in the pasta sauce can.
Or you actually weld that scroll to the end cap.
Then make the end cap sit on the baffle and screw the bugger in with sheet metal screws.

That way you can remove the end cap, and scroll in fiberglass and put it back in.

I did my SV that way, unscrew the end cap and the perforated steel tube comes with it, except I didn't cut that can, I bashed the crap out of it and pulled the innard pipes out. However you cant take the can off in the GS, and if you bashed it hard enough to remove the baffle, you will summarily turn the exhaust into a mangled mess.

Cut away and post pics ...

I still think a simple slip on is better, easier and what not IMHO ... but hey, that is just me. Its a 30 second job if you got the right can. In some cases you dont even need to pull the header off. I once slipped on a D&D in a matter of minutes.

Cool.
Buddha.

[anoopb]

I did my SV that way, unscrew the end cap and the perforated steel tube comes with it, except I didn't cut that can, I bashed the crap out of it and pulled the innard pipes out. However you cant take the can off in the GS, and if you bashed it hard enough to remove the baffle, you will summarily turn the exhaust into a mangled mess.

the end cap unscrews? the part where the exhaust leaves the muffler? i'm even more confused now on how to do this and i'm totally willing to try it but i'm not skilled with this type of work one bit.

[The Buddha]

I did my SV that way, unscrew the end cap and the perforated steel tube comes with it, except I didn't cut that can, I bashed the crap out of it and pulled the innard pipes out. However you cant take the can off in the GS, and if you bashed it hard enough to remove the baffle, you will summarily turn the exhaust into a mangled mess.

the end cap unscrews? the part where the exhaust leaves the muffler? i'm even more confused now on how to do this and i'm totally willing to try it but i'm not skilled with this type of work one bit.

The end cap on an sv 1000 used to be unscreweable. Not the GS, that sucker welded shut all the way across.
Someone need to cut it like I said and post pics.

Cool.
Buddha.

[mustangGT90210]

Not a GS, but I just shortened the muffler on my '94 gsxr a couple days ago. Sounds like it's about the same deal. I used a 4.5" angle grinder, a hammer, screwdriver(prybar) and some channel locks. My grinder couldn't reach fully in to cut the inner pipes in the muffler, so it took a while. I also wasn't working very fast. In the end it took 4 hours total, plus the 10 minutes at the muffler shop to have the tip welded back on.







I'll get a real exhaust later, at least now I can hear my bike

[system32]

I'm just confused on what you cut do you cut the end off the original pipe and you just weld pack on the little black tip thingy back on at the end of the new shortened pipe correct?

i cut the end of the muffler and then weld its head

[The Buddha]

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You know I've been thinking, I should poen a magazine and publish articles where there seems to be some kind of point but it eventually turns out to just be jumbled up garbage ... I think I'll call the magazine ... wait for it ...





VAGUE.

Cool.
Buddha.

[yamahonkawazuki]

AHAHAHAHA the Buddha returneth. your ospts made perfect sense when you were on meds following surgery. now theyre back to a bit of this, a bit of that, some of this etc. and a few BTWs

You know I've been thinking, I should poen a magazine and publish articles where there seems to be some kind of point but it eventually turns out to just be jumbled up garbage ... I think I'll call the magazine ... wait for it ...





VAGUE.

Cool.
Buddha.

Hmm full of off the wall rants that move from one topic to another. and change often lol. that would be an interesting read Eh? lol

[The Buddha]

AHAHAHAHA the Buddha returneth. your ospts made perfect sense when you were on meds following surgery. now theyre back to a bit of this, a bit of that, some of this etc. and a few BTWs

You know I've been thinking, I should poen a magazine and publish articles where there seems to be some kind of point but it eventually turns out to just be jumbled up garbage ... I think I'll call the magazine ... wait for it ...





VAGUE.

Cool.
Buddha.

Hmm full of off the wall rants that move from one topic to another. and change often lol. that would be an interesting read Eh? lol

Yea and madonna will sing a song with it as the chorus line ...

Vague vague vague ...

Cool.
Buddha.