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Title: Exhaust question.
Post by: rtalladino on November 02, 2015, 09:38:09 AM
I'm looking to purchase a used exhaust off eBay, and I need to know what other years are compatible with my 2002 gs500e. The one I'm looking at is from a 1990.
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: Watcher on November 02, 2015, 12:26:53 PM
I could be wrong but it seems to me all years would use the same exhaust.

Unless, of course, later years had O2 sensors or something...
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: lucas on November 02, 2015, 12:28:57 PM
I'm pretty sure no gs was shipped with an o2 sensor
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: Watcher on November 02, 2015, 12:29:18 PM
Didn't think so.
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: rtalladino on November 02, 2015, 01:13:38 PM
Awesome! Thank you everyone. That's what I thought, but better safe than sorry :cheers:
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: The Buddha on November 02, 2015, 02:11:30 PM
04 and later ones had a larger OD but same ID mid pipe with some insulating material in a double wall set up in the mid pipe.
That was it. Yea it did just about as much as you know it did.

Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: sledge on November 04, 2015, 02:05:38 AM
Those later ones had a catalytic converter fitted inside them, hence the differences in size..... and price!!
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: The Buddha on November 04, 2015, 05:33:04 AM
Quote from: sledge on November 04, 2015, 02:05:38 AM
Those later ones had a catalytic converter fitted inside them, hence the differences in size..... and price!!

Not unless a bunch of wadding is a catalytic converter.
Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: rg500gamma on November 05, 2015, 11:55:47 PM
Quote from: sledge on November 04, 2015, 02:05:38 AM
Those later ones had a catalytic converter fitted inside them, hence the differences in size..... and price!!
I thought  just where  I live in  California ( Los Angeles )  had the cats  in the pipe  ?          Is  there  cats  in the pipes  on say  a 2007  gs500f  in   the   United  Kingdom  ?   
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: sledge on November 06, 2015, 03:33:03 AM
Bike cats look like this......

(http://img.weiku.com/b%5C003%5C259%5C624Motorcycle_Catalyst_Converter.jpg)

They are fixed inside the pipes usually in the middle and were fitted to all Euro spec GS5s from 2004 (K4 models)

Cant say for certain what happened in the USA but..........

List price of a 2002 pipe courtesy of bike bandit is $780

List price of a 2004 pipe courtesy of bike bandit is $1512, almost double!..........so go figure  :thumb:

Lot of money to pay for some extra wadding   :D
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: rg500gamma on November 06, 2015, 07:13:32 PM
Quote from: sledge on November 06, 2015, 03:33:03 AM
Bike cats look like this......

(http://img.weiku.com/b%5C003%5C259%5C624Motorcycle_Catalyst_Converter.jpg)

They are fixed inside the pipes usually in the middle and were fitted to all Euro spec GS5s from 2004 (K4 models)

Cant say for certain what happened in the USA but..........

List price of a 2002 pipe courtesy of bike bandit is $780

List price of a 2004 pipe courtesy of bike bandit is $1512, almost double!..........so go figure  :thumb:

Lot of money to pay for some extra wadding   :D
:thumb:    many  thanks for the  information  Sledge  .    I  was thinking  the    U.K.   exhausts  on the  2004 +   might   flow a little  better  than  the   U.S.A.   exhausts  (stock exhaust )   due  to  emission  laws  over here .  well have a great weekend  .................
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: Daeouse on November 06, 2015, 09:43:08 PM
looks like cardboard rolled up. . . :cookoo:
Title: Re: Exhaust question.
Post by: sledge on November 07, 2015, 12:02:53 PM
Quote from: Daeouse on November 06, 2015, 09:43:08 PM
looks like cardboard rolled up. . . :cookoo:

Yep  :thumb:

The greater the surface area they have, the more effective they are  :thumb: