]I know I shouldn't, but someone tell me why. Not looking for performance, just want to replace my Yoshimthat has seen better days (rashed up bad on both sides)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2006-2012-zx-14-zx14-kawasaki-single-side-exhaust-CONVERSION-cap-/190777869720?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2c6b3f4598&vxp=mtr

* Last updated by: turbojb on 3/5/2013 @ 6:06 PM *

eBay exhaust...

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* Last updated by: turbojb on 3/5/2013 @ 6:07 PM *

That has got to be LOUD!

Neil

So you're looking to DECREASE performance and INCREASE noise? Might as well get a Hardley.

Buy some ear plugs to go with it !!! And if you dont know your neighbors now you soon will....lol !!!

So they are just going to block off one side and dump the other??? well, as long as you don't mind ear bleeding noise and a drastic loss of useable power, go for it!

Mad

I don't feel like I'm getting the right responses. I know I shouldn't get the exhaust above, but I want reasons why... All I have seen so far is drop in power and noise. Please elaborate.

How about this: it's a cheap, ugly piece of shit.

There is a science to the exhaust system inside the kawi pipe. It has solved quite a few things:

Emissions ~ We do not look at the cat as some air clogging device. We cannot create or destroy matter, so that does not matter in this case. We want that science and a heat exchanger kind of device. When the hot air leaves the chamber, its heading out really fast. And you want things done fast in an engine. Things done fast make HP. We'll get back to that plugger of yours. In the mean time, back to the science involved. That exhaust pipe header is being cooled by the flowing air. That just slowed down the hot moving air inside the pipe.

Since the normally aspirated engine is not that efficient at burning all the gasoline, some remains unspent inside the pipe. We add the PAIR system with the addition of fresh air headed inside the pipe, this helps to reignite the unspent. This then keeps the heat moving. The cat is created to run hot so it keeps the fire lit or the glowing of the honeycomb is again, the hot air keeps moving faster out the pipe.

Your Pipe ~ Will this make HP? If it was at wide open throttle all day long, then yes, I'd buy two and open the other side for that speed to happen faster out the pipe. That's how practical that exhaust system is. A one hit wonder. Is it for the street? Not really.

Muffler ~ We pretty much have caught up with either the header having a cat or not, it still flows the same. The one pipe system is larger to accommodate the cat's intrusion. So as the header has done it's thing with the PAIR/cat moves, it's time to move down to the muffler and out. What the muffler does are many things. It quiets the noise and the popping on lift. Helps low end power, helps top end power.

The muffler system has many velocity stack type tapers inside the muffler. Other makers do not take that much research, alter the internals in their muffler systems like Kawi does. So for that kind of muffler having that much capacity, it has the ability to perform at all levels of performance and still outperform most exhaust systems: HP wise.

Your Pipe ~ We more or less have this urge to jump in the lake, fly off a building, jump off a bridge, because it's the latest thing to do or to have. And these ideas people come up with so your flight down, brings that HP down with it. You NEED that part! You CRAVE that part! You WANT that part with all that research behind it... And then someone asks you... Dude, are you fa-fafuking nuts? Not my call. JUMP!

How was that response?

* Last updated by: Hub on 3/6/2013 @ 6:39 PM *

Well...certainly doesn't have any restrictions in it...that's good.Not so sure it'll fit...maybe.It will be loud.One on each side...might be okay.It's gonna sound like a drag bike...you want that?Flow like a SOB however....Cop magnet...for sure...unless you're dragging...pass.Probably get some flaming out those ends...It's a GP pipe,yes?

"All I have seen so far is drop in power and noise. Please elaborate"...well,those two things are pretty significant,right?.Loud is loud...obnoxious...the kind of loud people pick up the phone over.

Why not buy a new sleeve for your Yoshis?They sell em on their site...

* Last updated by: Grn14 on 3/6/2013 @ 9:02 PM *

I previously owned a 2006 ZX14. I rigged up a cover for one leg of the header and clamped it on. Used a piece of exhaust and welded on an end for the cover. Then I installed a Hedman exhaust tip on the other leg of the header. The Hedman is about a foot long and has a baffle inside to help quiet the exhaust. It was a simple installation and saved a ton of weight. Went for a ride to try it out. Wow...it was sooooo loud I couldnt wait to end the ride. Also the low speed fueling was rough. It hesitated when I gave it the throttle and backfired loudly when I let off. Way too loud for me and my neighbors too.

"How about this: it's a cheap, ugly piece of shit."

+1

"It's looks like shit, it'll sound like shit, and the bike will run like shit" shouldn't need much more elaboration. :)

DO NOT buy from those guys they are idiots who do not know how to weld.
I cam across one of these and they welded a actual nickel over a hole they made.
Complete garbage!