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Craigster
| | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 02:05 pm: | 
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Busa's are for touring.....your local track!
This is a Loudon open practice day....nice ride in the country.
Blake; I could not have said it better than your previous posts. You summed it up nicely.
I'd like to add: A restricted (183-186 mph) Busa can be de-restricted for the price of a resistor inserted into the gear position sensor on the left side of the cases at the end of the shifter drum (fool the ECM to think they're still in fifth). Radio Shack $2.99 for 10.
I'll give Dyna the $3.00 and see if he can get his R1 to touch 191 to 194 mph for the same $3.00 in hot rod expenses!
(Message edited by craigster on January 01, 2005) |
Snail
| | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 09:01 pm: |
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Nice pic Craigster. I'll leave others to champ. the Busa on the track, I suck at track riding. My good day has gone.
So can I post from Imagestation to here? |
Sgtbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 11:06 pm: |
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Snail
Come on man I have faith in you. Get that picture up so I can take a gander. |
Snail
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 02:07 am: |
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Sgt. I just can't make it work. Too dumb, or the files are too big or something. Hans and Blake tutored me a couple years ago, and I got the hang of it. But that was with the old computer, and I had some sizing software or something.
Too tired and sleepy to figure it out. I have to go to sea in five hours, will try again when I get home in a day or two. |
Snail
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 02:18 am: |
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Bud
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 02:35 am: |
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i was passed by a busa @ topspeed on the german autobaan, it was a stock busa ,
it scared the hell out off me, as i was doing 110 on my little bolt..
didn't hear a thing, a few flashes from his head light's and fleeew it was gone
way to fast for me. |
Sgtbuell
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 08:52 am: |
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Speaking of being to quiet. Not sure what liter bike guys have against pipes with a little bass.
I tell you what, if I had a Busa I would slap some D&D pipes on it right away. |
Buells Rule!
(Dyna in disguise)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 08:57 am: |
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Speaking of being to quiet. Not sure what liter bike guys have against pipes with a little bass.
After years of the drag pipes on my HD & the pipe on my X1, its nice to have a quiet exhaust. Cruise around in stealth mode & dont need to worry about perking a cops ears up who may be 3 blocks away. |
Blake
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 12:24 pm: |
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Here's an idea, a dual mode pipe from the factory, just flip a switch or turn a lever to go from EPA compliant street mode to race mode. You know it could be done. There are many times I wish I could revert the Borla or Race muffler back to stock quite mode. Like when riding through Rocky Mountain National Park or other park type areas. |
Blake
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 12:26 pm: |
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Does anyone know for certain if such a dual mode muffler would be legal if offered as original equipment? |
Tucsonxb9s
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 01:10 pm: |
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Mitsubishi did something like that in the 3000GT a while back. Flip a switch and the exhaust note changed. For what? I dunno!  |
Craigster
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 02:02 pm: |
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Both modes would have to pass the sound test...tone could change (as heard by listener's ear) but total volume would have to be kept under the EPA limit.
Kawasaki couldn't even advertise the 'racemode'(richer@higher boost) in the GPz750Turbo's ECM here in the states. It was well known elsewhere so the info leaked in to the USA. Kawasaki still denied any knowledge even though several dragracers made it work. |
Buells Rule!
(Dyna in disguise)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 04:01 pm: |
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They used to sell a setup for cars with headers. Had a cable attached to a lever & the valve was located after the collectors. You pulled the lever & you would have open exhaust, much like what Blake described. It was rather crude & the cable & assorted pieces tended to rust & bind up after a year here in the rustbelt. But if Buell. Yamaha, etc can do a similar deal with an internal Exup type valve, there is no reason one couldnt be adapted work as a dump off gate. |
M1combat
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 07:29 pm: |
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They still sell those Dyna...
As I recall the last place I saw them was in something like a Jegs or Summit catalogue. I'm not sure they would make them any smaller than 2.5" from that source though. I'll be putting a set on my Mustang when I get the engine done (for stoplight antics  ). It would be cool to have a set on a Buell too .
(Hmmm... I wonder why MS Word says "Catalogue" is spelled correctly, but the website catches it as a spelling error?) |
Tom_b
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 07:51 pm: |
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I used to have a ski boat with a similar setup. Closed, it would run through the mercruiser outdrive under water. Open, it dumped straight out of the transom. Just sounded cool, don't think it made a difference HP wise. My uncle had a cable operated exhaust dump on an old 63 Dodge Polara with a 426 wedge. When open it was a loud SOB, closed it kept the cops off his butt. |
Ray_maines
| | Posted on Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 09:08 pm: |
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Loud doesn't make fast. In fact, loud might even make slow.
With the advent of computer controlled electronic ignition systems and fuel injection it shouldn't be impossible, or even hard, for a factory to rig up such a system on a modern sport bike. Big Brother might not like it very much, but hey...........
(Message edited by ray_maines on January 02, 2005) |
Uwgriz
| | Posted on Monday, January 03, 2005 - 05:27 pm: |
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Does anyone know for certain if such a dual mode muffler would be legal if offered as original equipment?
It wouldn't be as you can't have any means in place to defeat the ability to meet any specification as original equipment. Just ask any of the diesel manufacturers that circumvented emmisions requirements through inventive ECM programming. Their bottom lines got a bit lighter after the fines. |
Sleez
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 01:21 pm: |
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check the classified for an 01 Busa for sale |
