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megawatt Speedway Rider
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 485 Location: Northiam, near Rye
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: De-catting a Gixxer 600 K8 |
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A friend of a friend turned up today. He had asked me if we could get rid of the 11lb lump of steel and chemicals that is his standard catalytic converter, make and fit a linkpipe to his carbon Yoshimura silencer. Got a shock when we removed the fairing, bloody headers are welded to the cat!!! So it was out with the angle grinder!!!
We made a short coupling and blatted to my local TIG welder so he could weld it to the 4 into 1 section just after the Lambda probe.
Next we cut up some pieces of 304 stainless, two sets with 30 degree angles, offered em up, a bit of length adjustment and voila.
Final welding and fitting of Mega clamps next week. Couldn't resist a test fire , so gaffer taped all the sections together and fired er up!!! Vids to follow. _________________ Why pay someone else, do it yerself
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megawatt Speedway Rider
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 485 Location: Northiam, near Rye
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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And a video, tubes held together with gaffer tape!!!
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ninjabob Nuggetmeister
Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 3352 Location: 48.066895,12.862673
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Clever work - will it now need a Power Commander fitted and a Custom Map done on a Dyno to stop it running like s&(t though? _________________ "Those who understand compound interest are destined to collect it.
Those who don't are doomed to pay it." |
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Carnage British Superbike Racer
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:35 am Post subject: |
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Just imho id say the link pipe requires twisting slightly so that the end can runs paralell to the the tail section, other than that good work Al _________________ Rust is lighter than carbon fibre! |
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megawatt Speedway Rider
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 485 Location: Northiam, near Rye
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Yes it will need a PC and yes the owner is happy with it! _________________ Why pay someone else, do it yerself |
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summerman British Superbike Racer
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 1269 Location: Pound Hill Crawley, West Sussex
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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pardon my ignorance Al but what happend when its MOT time? will he have to buy a new set of original pipes to do the test?
Nice work tought! _________________ The road to success is always under construction.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
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megawatt Speedway Rider
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 485 Location: Northiam, near Rye
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Fairly sure that it doesn't need a cat for the MOT. If it does , I can refit the old one fairly easily.
My mate's linkpipe is finished! Made out of two pieces clamped together.
And a video. Double click on piccy.
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