New Exhaust and Backfires

Originally Posted by adrian dugdale

Whille your on the subject of exhausts as anyboby tried an Evo Blue Fame and if so are they any good

Amarko5 amongst others has one and it sounds awesome, but theres various reports about customer service or lack of it. Have a search through the threads and you'll find loads about em.

Originally Posted by northwind

Then how does a 3/4 system work for it? Maybe I'm being dense...

For the original bike, it's in 3 bits- there's the rear downpipe, can, and collector box in one part, the tiny wee bit that goes at the top of the rear downpipe (which is where one end of a 3/4 system would go) and the front downpipe. Usually a 3/4 system would replace the whole back half and retain only the front downpipe, but there has to be a link where the front downpipe and the rest of the system somewhere, and on the old bike there's a gasket in there.

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Not at home at the moment so cant check the pipework so this is just from memory, but as far as I recall, theres the front downpipe with a gasket to the enginey bit (not very technical or mechanical - sorry!). From there, its just one whole piece that slips on to the front downpipe. It has the small pipe that slips onto the pipe from the back cylinder and both of these just clamp on, and also the can. The can is welded on so has to be cut off.

The 3/4 system just replaces everything EXCEPT the front downpipe. It just clamps on to where the stock system clamps on but you can also remove the can as its just a slip on on the new 3/4 system, so can be swapped for something else at a later date if preferred.

Hope that explains it a bit better. If I was a bit more technically minded I could explain it better I suppose

[northwind]

Aye, that's what I'm meaning. On the original bike, there's a gasket where the front downpipe meets the rear bit.

Originally Posted by northwind

Aye, that's what I'm meaning. On the original bike, there's a gasket where the front downpipe meets the rear bit.

Ah, right. Nah, not on the K3. Its just a clamp. Wish it was just a clamp for the can too though so you dont have to mess about either cutting or getting a 3/4 system, but thats another story.

[northwind]

I know, it's crap isn't it...