I bought this used Yoshimura RS-3 slip-on off ebay and I am trying to find a hanger and mid pipe for it. I want the mid pipe to run to the y-split off the stock headers. Does anyone know where I can find one pre-made that will fit well or should I take it to a shop to have one custom made? I just want to find something preferably mandrel bent that is not slopped together by a muffler shop with crappy steal piping. Please help me out! Thanks!
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Also, I know the diameter of the midpipe changed in 2004, I think. If I'm shopping for a slip-on, what do I need to know? Will I have a hard time finding a silencer to fit on a pre-'04 headers?
Bump for some advice. Thanks!
Come on guys, can't anyone help me? I know a bunch of people are running slip ons here. What did you do?
Search e-bay for mounting kits.
Or, go to your local Advanced, AutoZone, Napa, and look in the fart-can section of the exhaust isle. They sometimes have straps that go around circular automotive mufflers that would fit the Yosh.
Either that, or just go buy a piece of 1" stainless strap about 1 1/2" long @ 1/8th an inch to bend around the pipe and drill your mounting hole.
The only thing with that is that you'll have to find a piece of 1 1/4 inch black rubber strap to prevent the strap from sliding/scratching your pipe.
Dan
Quote from: Danny500 on September 30, 2008, 05:48:55 PM
Search e-bay for mounting kits.
Or, go to your local Advanced, AutoZone, Napa, and look in the fart-can section of the exhaust isle. They sometimes have straps that go around circular automotive mufflers that would fit the Yosh.
Either that, or just go buy a piece of 1" stainless strap about 1 1/2" long @ 1/8th an inch to bend around the pipe and drill your mounting hole.
The only thing with that is that you'll have to find a piece of 1 1/4 inch black rubber strap to prevent the strap from sliding/scratching your pipe.
Dan
Thanks for the advice. I want to find something specificly made for a slip on exhaust though. I bought a nice slip on and the last thing I want to do is make it look ghetto. I searched around on ebay last night and wasn't successful...maybe I just need to look more.
A few years ago I made over a 100 flanges to fit a wileyco or D&D or similar cans onto a GS. The only reason I made and sold that many ... much of it before I even bought a single piece of pipe ... prepaid orders for 80%+ ... some people paid and waited over a month ... was because not 1 damn thing is available for a GS. Yea whole system sure ... when they decide to make them ... yea ... but otherwise ...
Hit a few muffler shops and see if anyone will bend pipe in stainless and it can sorta look shiny and less ghetto ... of course they cant weld stainless ... they'd weld with mig ... so its gonna rust there ...
Cool.
Buddha.
wouldn't the rubber strap melt with the heat of the exhaust?
Rubber will not melt with exhaust temp. Check what is holding your center stand down ...
Will it look like crap ... yes ... melt, no.
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: The Buddha on October 01, 2008, 08:02:37 AM
Rubber will not melt with exhaust temp. Check what is holding your center stand down ...
Will it look like crap ... yes ... melt, no.
Cool.
Buddha.
You brought up another good point that I wanted to ask about. There is that piece on the bottom of the stock pipe that keeps the center stand from springing back any farther and hitting the frame...do people usually weld a new piece like this onto the new piping they have made?
That bracket and that rubber chunk keep the centerstand off your left foot.
However you dont have to weld up another bracket on the exhaust ... unless you want to ...
The center stand has the cross bridge that connects both legs right, it comes close to the shock's bottom bolt. You take a chunk of car/tractor tire - available at the nearest side of the road ... and zip tie it to the cross member on the center stand so it hits the shock mount. Yea it look like crap ... but a black ziptie will be barely visible down there ... so use a yellow zip tie and tie it up :bowdown: yellow zip ties are the fastest.
Cool.
Buddha.
It didn't come with a hanger? All slip-ons should.
Wasn't the infamous Sr***th <- Shhhh ... incognito - flange for bolt-ons? Davipu welded a bracket to my stock pipe that let me use a bolt-on.
Whenever you do get it on your bike, you can remove that Yosh sticker thing by snipping it with a pair of tin snips up to the rivets.