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barry68v10 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 955 Maryland Gender:	Help, muffler question 11/10/06 at 06:35:04 Hey all, I'm considering buying a new gsxr600 muffler and "engineering" a way to put it on my savage. It's light, looks sharp (titanium) and will certainly flow plenty for the LS650. Is this a waste of time and $? What thinks you?
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barry68v10 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 955 Maryland Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #1 - 11/10/06 at 06:35:57 Oh, I forgot to mention, I can get it for $20, which is the only reason I'm considering it.
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Rogue_Cheddar Serious Thumper Offline Hang up the phone and drive! Posts: 725 Haverhill, Massachusetts Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #2 - 11/10/06 at 06:41:51 Like the Nike commercials says " Just do it!" Great things come from experimentation. You got the exhaust for a measly $20 bucks, so why the hell not? Who knows, you may have the baddest exhaust around when you're done. Be sure to send pics.
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10668 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #3 - 11/10/06 at 06:46:07 Absolutely, innovation is the Way of the Savage.
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SeeAPierce Senior Member 2005 No Login Offline Posts: 282 California Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #4 - 11/10/06 at 13:26:58 Pics are good - so are .mp3 or .wav files of the sound. GOFORIT!
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #5 - 11/10/06 at 15:45:06 Definitely go for it. If you can make a wav or mp3 recording. please email it to me and i'll add it to the post in the Tech Ref forum. Good luck!
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clueless-FSO Senior Member Offline Posts: 454 Birmingham, Al Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #6 - 11/10/06 at 17:59:41 That's why I like mine so much.....if I screw up, I know where and it's usually inexpensive to recover!
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #7 - 11/10/06 at 18:17:09 I got my fishtail for $20 delivered. It's in the garage as it was a bit too loud. However it got the wife to agree to paying retail on a MAC.
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barry68v10 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 955 Maryland Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #8 - 11/10/06 at 18:45:40 I don't have a way to record sound, anyone live in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area that could help with that.
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luken Full Member Offline Posts: 147 Mesa, az Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #9 - 11/10/06 at 20:13:12 no digicam? Im sure someone you know can film it in mpg and I could cut that to just mp3.
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barry68v10 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 955 Maryland Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #10 - 11/12/06 at 16:20:19 Got the gxsr muffler today for $20 as promised Now I have an interesting dilemma, the inlet is 2 1/8 inches and apparently bolts to a flange. I'm wondering if I should take it to a muffler shop and have them fab something up to go to a 1 5/8 or 1 3/4 inch pipe. Thoughts?
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10668 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #11 - 11/12/06 at 18:20:27 That would be your best bet to have something that works properly and looks like it is supposed to be there.
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Reply #12 - 11/13/06 at 15:20:38

I measured the gxsr600 muffler for fitment. WOW! That thing looks huge compared to the stock pipe. I'm quite sure it will flow 4X what the stock muffler will, but that really seems like overkill. That thing is 22" long and 5 1/4" in diameter! It will take a 2 1/2" input pipe. I think it will be quiet (I don't want loud), but I'm not sure it will provide enough backpressure to keep my bike from being tempermental tuning-wise. I have to admit tho, for all it's size, that can barely weighs anything and looks sharp! Also, the mounting bracket is quite a way back from the stock location. Looks like the perfect mouning point is to the passenger footpeg bracket. I'll keep you posted.

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barry68v10 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 955 Maryland Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #13 - 11/13/06 at 15:22:35 One more question, would it be better to have 1 5/8 to hook to the header pipe or 1 3/4? I know folks around here have used both...
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Max_Morley Serious Thumper Offline LT650 Luxury Touring & sidecar rig Posts: 1490 Moses Lake. WA Gender:	Re: Help, muffler question Reply #14 - 11/13/06 at 15:53:22 If youuse the passenger foot peg bracket on a Savage you will have to use a hinge in the connection as it goes up and down with the swing arm Max
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