ok guys i'm gonna put a picture of my bike in this post and tell you what i'm wanting to do with the exhaust. I'm going to admit right now that I have NO CLUE how to use photoshop and am terrible in ms paint so i'm not even going to attempt to edit the image of my bike/exhaust.

What I am wanting to do is let the exhaust come out of the lower fairing and be "cut off" below the "canister" and just level out as it reaches the bottom to the middle of the swing arm. I would not truly be cutting my exhaust I would just be getting a new pipe custom bent and cut and added on to the section and still have my stock exhaust.

what I'm wondering is would this just be ridiculously loud and or possibly damage my engine like running headers only on a car does?

thanks in advance for any tips and/or advice



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It would be insanely loud, would vibrate a lot, and probably not sound too great. It's very unlikely that it would damage your engine, but it's very likely that it will decrease power.

 

It would be stupid loud and you would loose low end power with that set up. It's your bike so do what you want, but I would not do it.

 

just curious how headers hurt your engine? on a car

 

The header will not hurt an engine, but sometimes will kill low end punch. There is an old wivestail that open exhause will burn a valve or valves, but it's not true. Some back pressure is go for low end power as well so you don't want 100% exhaust flow unless maybe it a race car that is made to run wide open all the time.

 

If your exhaust pipes are not longer than the stroke of the motor, it can suck cold air back into the more and cause the valves to be bent.. and it can burn the valves, its happend to me in a geo metro. but that was just a disaster waiting to happen anyways. open rusted manifold + interstate = no more metro