| Author | Message | ||
     Jimincalif |
WOW What I'm looking at is an old KT Engineering pipe/can one piece combo bought in '97, stored with the pieces of an S1 stolen and crashed in '98 and sadly neglected, until now. There was spot rust...emphasis on "was". These guys blasted and polished it and then applied the most gorgeous $200 worth of satin silver finish imaginable. The KT pipe is literally irreplaceable. It was tuned specifically for the '96 S1 cam, also found on '97 S3s like mine  . When the White Lightning shipped and it was obvious Buell wasn't going to standardize the cam KT gave up but meanwhile they made one hell of a pipe. With this high-temp high-tech ceramic coat it'll last forever if I don't get stupid and heat-wrap it. Which trust me, I won't. Now I gotta figure out how to quiet it just a bit. See...KT's original "baffle" was just a perforated steel plate that bolted inside at an angle. It wasn't very good to start with and fell out during a road trip...it was even louder after that . I have in hand a "street baffle" from a Forcewinder pipe. Unfortunately I misjudged the pipe diameter - it won't fit in there. The KT's whole "cannister" area is 2.5" across, running the same thickness from the merge point to the end. Hmmm. A little poking around a local speed shop (automotive) turned up a stainless steel muffler tip that goes over the 2.5" KT end perfectly and then has about 6" worth of "glasspack" inside...two layers of stainless, inner layer perforated, just under 1/4" of fiberglas inside. Looks quite decent and for $22, who cares if it can't be re-packed. Here's the interesting part: the Force street baffle fits perfectly inside THAT. So I'm gonna try it with just the "mini glasspack", and if it's still wild-loud mount the Force piece in, see what happens. I figure I can use a little bit of heat tape wrapped around the rearmost area of the Force insert to prevent it rattling within the glasspack, anchored with some stainless safety wire I've got laying around. Either way the looks are pretty decent and it should flow at least as well as the old KT "baffle plate". If the restriction in the Force "constriction ring" at the back of the baffle turns out to be too much I figure I can shave some away with a dremel and slowly tune it. Anybody got other ideas as to how to shut this up a bit? I'll be happy to see the last of the old pipe...stock header, 2" merge, crappy V&H cannister that's probably falling apart inside. I suspect this motor has a ton more in it with the exhaust done right...she's a 1250, Axtell/NRHS bore kit, HR42, 10.5:1 forged Thunderstorm pistons, 2004 heads cut to Thunderstorm domes by NRHS. | ||
| Spiderman |
Do you have th eoriginal "plug" that looks like a cheese grader that went into the end of the KT? If not I jave mine laying around ifin ya need it | ||
| Jimincalif |
Ah. That's exactly the piece that fell off years ago. (scratches head) Tell ya what. Lemme see if this combination I'm going to try works. If not I may try the "cheesegrater" inside the mini-glasspack. | ||
| Mikeyp |
Nice read... Well, i have a KT pipe on my S1W, and i have the little cheese grater thing in it. I took it off, and to tell you the truth , i didn't see any difference in loudness at all. I put it back on. I also had my KT pipe Jet Hot coated over 3 years ago, and it looks just as good as the day i had it done. Please don't mind my halloween burnout. It was the only pic i could find.  |
