I've had the bike two weeks or so and already started my modifications because of the info I have read here, thanks alot!!
You're quite welcome! We're good at that!
Can you help out a serious amature here and give me the low down on what I need to do so as not to blow this thing up!! The bike sounds awesome with these bolt on's, just a little worried about riding before I know what else I should do.
Well, I'll have a stab at it.
First, glad you like the sound, those RS-3's do sound good. You'll get varying opinions on what to do with just bolt-on exhaust.
One thing that you may need to do is the PAIR valve mod. You may have noticed a lot of backfiring or popping when decelerating - this is caused by having the PAIR valve installed with aftermarket exhaust. Either remove the PAIR valve and install block-off plates or do the 'marble mod'; this will get rid of the backfiring. Other than the sound, you really haven't gained any horsepower with just the bolt-ons; you're still stuck with the stock, restrictive headers.
Another mod that you will probably want to do is the kickstand mod. The stock kickstand doesn't seem to have enough forward angle and some members have had their bikes fall over. The mod is as simple as grinding a couple of notches in the kickstand so it will angle forward more.
There are so many more mods - the list is almost endless. Double-bubble windscreen, remove the stickers and reflectors, Throttlemeister, Tobin seat(s), foot pegs, ......
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I don't know how the Yoshi's are designed...if you can look straight though them then they're "race" style cans.....Scorpion and Viper both claim a 6 hp gain with dyno charts for just their race bolt ons. I put the Vipers on first and it did make a noticeable difference.....then I put a Cobra FI2000R pc on and it made a VERY noticeable diff.....gave it right NOW throttle response and pulls harder everywhere. I had heard so much of the "bolt ons don't do squat" info that I expected nothing....and was truly shocked at the diff. WELL worth every penny invested
If you look through the stock exhaust can, you can't see more than a third of the way down either end because it has three offset baffled chambers to get the sound down to the 80 decibels the U.S. requires. That restricts the exhaust flow a ton. If you do your research here and on the net you'll find that a pair of bolt ons give you roughly half of what a full system will hp wise. Either alot of folks here are spreading the bolt ons don't do diddly myth without ever trying them....or they need to invest in a $66 BMC filter, a $197 shipped to your door Cobra pc, and a set of straight through $370 Viper bolt ons before they pass judgement
Its a cheap easy performance mod you can really feel....try it, you might like it
No offense intended Om and none taken I hope
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I wasn't necessarily looking for big gains as much as I was looking for a better sound for the bike, but I can tell you this, I was a little surprised after I put them on. I've yet to pull the front wheel off the ground intentionally, even by accelerating pretty hard I've kept the front wheel down, but I was leaving an intersection the night I installed the caps, and I got on it about like I normally would, and I'll be damned if the front wheel didn't come right up. Just a nice low wheelie, nothing spectacular, but it sort of suprised me because I've launched that way many times and didn't have that happen until the caps were put on. I'm not sure if it was just a fluke or did the Busa like the Yoshi's too!! So far I'm pretty happy with the whole deal! I'm looking at a few other add-ons like the Power Commander and TRE and that should do it for awhile (yeah, right)!!
