I've been waiting about a month for mine. i was told they are on back order because one of Yosh's carbon fiber suppliers went under. I can't imagine why this would happen, considering the amount of demand just for sport bike exhausts. Hopefully it will be here in the next couple of weeks, so i'm interested to hear how everyone's installs go.

As for the heat shield, I've been told that it needs to come off. i've also been told to go buy some heat reflective duct tape to replaced the heat shield.

 

I took off all the heat shield minus the one near the rear break lever where the piping heads to the header. Yoshi supplies you with an adhesive heat sheild to stick up under in the undertail area and it is carbon fiber as well so it doesn't get too hot.

 

The reflective duct tape might not be such a bad idea as the adhesive heat shield supplied is just enough for the 2 templates they give you to cover the undertail area.

 

Thanks for the heads up on the heat shield.....I will wait till the pipe comes in and from there do the rest of the mods. The fender eliminator kit worked well too....pretty good mods for low $$$$. Will post a pic once it is all done. My RS-5 is due in tomorrow. BTW it is not the CF one.....that was hard to get as you've already pointed out.

 

I chose the stainless rs-5. I think all the yoshi's look good and it sounds great. Performed the flapper mod and installed pipe at the same time and my god whata difference in performance, now I have no choice but to get the pc pc3 just to see what happens.

 

I have yet to do the flapper mod. Would you need to have a custom map on the power commander for the flapper or would running the yoshimura map for the slip on run well enough with it.

 

From what I gather all you need is the map for your pipe.

 

Can one of you tell me what the flapper mod is again?

 

http://www.rogueracing.org/flap.htm

 

Reading that very sight from one of your other posts under....."flapper Mod" Thanks!