I'm hitting the yard tomorrow and am going to find any aftermarket can with a hole bigger than a nickel. Anything I should look out for?
I guess it doesn't really matter what kind of hanging bracket the new can has since I am going to put gixxer rear pegs on it and would have to fab something special anyway.
Is welding a hanger onto a can problematic? Thanks in advance
Yeait might be a problem... they sometimes make cans out of shitty metal... like the supertrapps, cobras... material that constantly makes white powder when it contacts air... shitty crap. Weldable aluminum... the list starts and ends with 6061 ... OK some other types like 2024, 3003,7075 can be welded... but no one makes cans from that... So well I have a suggestion... Get a strip of aluminum and wrap it around and clamp it.... that's what every one does... mostly the can makers themselves. Also a new can is $50 and 12 for shipping from dennis crook ... a stainless well made one... remember that before you buy.
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Srinath.
Srinath, maybe I'll just send you a bottle of Wild Turkey for every time you save me $25 bucks. I think we're already up to about three cases. :cheers: :thumb:
Do you have a link to the specific one you were talking about?
I am famous for being a cheapskate ... and after years (like 10 years) of buying a wrecking yard can and running down to the muffler shop and getting it all welded together ... I realised it costs me $80 minimum and ~$120 max and guess what I still have a sorta shitty scratched up very well used looking can ... I used to say $100 for a can fitted on when I was estimating the DIY jetting and can method and that is if you have a good wrecker in your area ... whihc I currently do not :x . If you go the flange and carbon route its $125 and flange and SS can its ~$100 and its a nice new can and its a good simple fit. The whole idea popped in my head when I spotted cans being closed out by Dennis Krook, I reveive them and what I do to fit it... feels to me like it can be packaged... I then buy a bunch of cans (in fact all the carbon and Ti they had) and came up with the flanges. Anyway these is now 2 Ti left... the carbons are all gone and I'll keep 1 of the Ti...
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The one thing I have going for me is that I have a mig welder, which doesn't really help me in the way of making a slip-on adapter for a 3 hole can... I would need either a torch or a plasma to make it. Maybe someone sells one. From there it's a cake walk.
I only saw one at the salvage yard that I considered buying. It was a pretty new(never mounted but still a couple minor scratches) generic stainless slip on that had billet aluminum on the front and back ends, and a black extension on it with just a minor bend that would have been easily mounted, but I decided not to buy it. Maybe I'll go pick it up to have as a spare.
You scored on those closeout cans, srinath. Kind of a lucky fluke, eh?
Oh you probably should weld the flange on ... The slip on type is more work... 2 cuts and more marking than you can shake a stick at. If You want weld on... I'll make it and send it by tuesday. You position it with eyeball, mark it, cut it, position it again this time against the end of the pipe to check ... tack it, take it off and just weld ... 1000 times less work.
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BTW the exhaust at the wreckers... what were they asking for it...
Lucky fluke... nope... just living in Gstwin... someone posted it here ... I see it and start searching ebay and find the store that was selling some, but had more on the shelf... I bought the lot they had except the auction ones... those sold for over 2X what I paid. BTW dennis crook had them for less but they were all stainless. They still do. Stainless cans for $50 and 12 for shipping...making for 62 to your door. Flange from me is 30+5-6 shipping...and you still in under a $100. Some guys have gone that route. Carbon or Ti was close to $85 to me... hence the $125 ... I might buy some stainless if there is more interest after I sell out.
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I was looking for the stainless ones on dennis krook but couldn't find anything. Looked everywhere :dunno:
if you're doing the rear gsxr brackets like I did one word of warning: use an aftermarket can. Stock cans are heavy and the configuration using the different brackets will cause the can to migrate toward the swingarm. If you use an aftermarket, which is much lighter (stay away from SS) then it wont move toward the swingarm under its own weight.
Quote from: DomI was looking for the stainless ones on dennis krook but couldn't find anything. Looked everywhere :dunno:
I posted a link earlier in a different thread... I cant find it either now... but jared found it and got one of those cans... BTW these are heavy even in the carbon fiber... Stainless is going to be a Buddha Loves You.... Think Rosanne like weight... Probably still lighter than stock :x ... That is Divine like weight.
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