Loud Pipes

[Chevyfazer]

one of my buddies who did something like that and brought his truck over bragging about "how good it sounded" I told him it sounded like a horse farting in a 55gal drum and I thought he was gonna cry but he just got back in his truck and quietly drove off lol

 

[bobby bo bonsin]

Haaahaa! Thats hilarious! Thats exactly what it sounds like too!

Hello my real name is Adam.

 

[Chucker]

I don't have a pipe, nor have I done the free mod (punched hole). This is not because I don't like the sound of aftermarket exhaust (I love it), but it's because of the emissions and loudness. I don't want to increase the emissions and make the bike louder if it is not going to significantly improve the performance. If I was going to get a significant increase in power and/or torque with a new pipe, I would do it and just take it easy in my neighbourhood. As a result, I spend that money on mods that DO make a significant improvement in performance and on accessories/tools that make life better on track days.

 

[Brock Kickass]

I don't have a pipe, nor have I done the free mod (punched hole). This is not because I don't like the sound of aftermarket exhaust (I love it), but it's because of the emissions and loudness. I don't want to increase the emissions and make the bike louder if it is not going to significantly improve the performance. If I was going to get a significant increase in power and/or torque with a new pipe, I would do it and just take it easy in my neighbourhood. As a result, I spend that money on mods that DO make a significant improvement in performance and on accessories/tools that make life better on track days.

Excellent point. That's part of what makes me so crazy about drag pipes! These stupid bikes are teeth-rattling loud, and they're still slower than a Toyota Corolla! I can understand a loud pipe if it makes a significant performance improvement. Those usually aren't very loud unless you're really opening the throttle anyway. But straight pipes on a cruiser that is slug-slow with or without them is just being an ass for the sake of being an ass. I remember sitting on a sidewalk patio having a drink, and some chunk of chromed unreliability pulled up to a parking spot. He stoode astride his bike with the straight pipes pointed direstly at the patio for a good 2 minutes waiting for his buddy before he finally shut it down and gave us all some relief. Yeah, dude, we get it. You have a bike. Now shut it up!

 

[Chevyfazer]

I don't have a pipe, nor have I done the free mod (punched hole). This is not because I don't like the sound of aftermarket exhaust (I love it), but it's because of the emissions and loudness. I don't want to increase the emissions and make the bike louder if it is not going to significantly improve the performance. If I was going to get a significant increase in power and/or torque with a new pipe, I would do it and just take it easy in my neighbourhood. As a result, I spend that money on mods that DO make a significant improvement in performance and on accessories/tools that make life better on track days.

Exhaust does make a difference in power plus it saves weight and as long as you have it tuned and still have the cats in smog emissions are not effected, and if it's tuned really good can even lower the emissions.

 

[Chucker]

Exhaust does make a difference in power plus it saves weight and as long as you have it tuned and still have the cats in smog emissions are not effected, and if it's tuned really good can even lower the emissions.

I think you missed the key word - "significant".

 

[Nastybutler]

I'd say a 5 HP increase on a bike that has a max output of 65 hp is pretty significant, wouldn't you? Or do you think a 7.7% increase is insignificant?

 

[Chevyfazer]

As far as "bolt on's" available for the bikes and that there is not really anything else's that will give you the same gain, yeah I'd say it's significant. And you gotta think too, like butler was saying, gains are relative to what you had to begin with. Your not gonna bolt on anything and get 15-20 hp like in a car or truck. I guess significant could be subjective though....

Out of curiosity what would you call significant? And what other parts are you referring too?

 

[Chevyfazer]

Excellent point. That's part of what makes me so crazy about drag pipes! These stupid bikes are teeth-rattling loud, and they're still slower than a Toyota Corolla! I can understand a loud pipe if it makes a significant performance improvement. Those usually aren't very loud unless you're really opening the throttle anyway. But straight pipes on a cruiser that is slug-slow

I think you would be surprised if you were ever to ride or race a decent cruiser. there are quite a few of them out their from America and Japan that can out run or at least keep up with the fz6r in a straight line. There are even a few like the Harley XR that can hang with it in the turns too.

But yes there are quite a few of them that are stupid loud, especially when some drunk bastard comes screaming past your house at 3am. Or the guys who buy the cheep jap 650 cruisers and put straight pipes on them, that is one horrible sound.

 

[Brock Kickass]

I think you would be surprised if you were ever to ride or race a decent cruiser. there are quite a few of them out their from America and Japan that can out run or at least keep up with the fz6r in a straight line. There are even a few like the Harley XR that can hang with it in the turns too.

But yes there are quite a few of them that are stupid loud, especially when some drunk bastard comes screaming past your house at 3am. Or the guys who buy the cheep jap 650 cruisers and put straight pipes on them, that is one horrible sound.

I was thinking more like the Harleys that the cops use, and Fat Boys and that kind or crap. I rode with a guy on a Fat Boy once when I still had my 6R. He told me his 1200cc v-twin had impossible amounts of tourque, and there was no way I was keeping up in a straight line. Was he ever surprised when we did a 70mph roll-on drag. It was like racing a tired old 1/2 ton Chev. He spent the entire next fuel stop trying to figure out where the nitrous bottle was hidden.
My Grandfather rode an Electra Glide or whatever it's called and said he couldn't coax more than 95mph out of it. His Venture Royale used to give my 6R a good run for its money, though, and I know a Goldwing can really hustle, but I've seen a lot of bikes that make HUGE noise for no good reason. BTW, those 6-cyl Goldwings sound pretty neat when the rider cracks on it hard enough to hear it. (Not like you ever do. Those things are whisper-quiet) As I pointed out, at least with most performance exhausts that go on sportbikes it's usually pretty quiet unless you toot on it. Stupid drag pipes are just annoying all the time. In fairness, though, an R1 with a full Yosh system will wake you up just as fast it's going past your house redlining shifts. You just won't hear it if the rider is being sane.

 

[Chevyfazer]

Yeah it's all a matter of what the riding is doing, and if they are purposefully trying to be a D-bag. My exhaust is crazy loud yet I can keep it so quite when leaving my house in the morning that my girlfriend doesn't even know I've left.

Talking about R1's though, the new ones I think from 09+ or whenever they went to a crossplane crank IMO is absolutely best sounding bike on the road!!! Even though it's a I4 the thing sounds like a small displacement high revving V8! It's a damn EarGasim!!!