I want to make my bike sound a bit louder, I’ve got a factory default exhaust with no other modification on the bike (other than cosmetic) but sometimes the fazer sounds a bit like a milk float chugging along.
I am tempted to get a new bike but with winter looming and uncertainty around my current employment I’m going to stick with it. I could be tempted by a new exhaust though - I am under no delusions of getting a super-sports exhaust system to get more power out of my fazer, after all it’s a fazer, not a supersports bike.
I’ve seen some exhaust systems on fazer’s and the noise hasn’t changed much. Makes me wonder about replacing the exhaust can, I know you can take the bafflers out of the other can’s but I was wondering if there might be a even more cheaper way of me making my current exhaust sound a little bit louder, you know maybe take a drill to it somewhere :Whistling: Of course I jest, but my knowledge of these things is rather poor.
A cheap exhaust from Ebay will make it louder. It depends on the engine also. My old CB500 was the loudest thing out there after a fitted a straight through exhaust. IL4s aren’t as noisy overall I think.
I had a stubby can on my old Bandit and it was pretty bluddie loud !
P.S. When you take the old can off, just before you fit the new one, start the bike up and give the throttle a bit of a twist - then you’ll see what loud is
I had a biked nicked in the past and the ‘solo practice’ clipped the downpipes, they rusted through within a month and started forming holes!
I was so poor at the time I had to ride the bike for a few weeks whilst they were still booming loud, people in the street had to cover their ears when I was riding - honestly, no deliberate intention I was just so poor, I had to cover £575 damages from it being nicked (had £500 excess insurance ), barely ate that month.
The idea is to punch a hole through the baffle tube end plate, hence the “sharpening the end” bit.*
What I should have added is “do it immediately before you get the bike serviced next”.
The logic is that with a freer flowing exhaust, you might weaken the mixture slightly. Not likely to be critical but better safe than sorry.
(*Having Arrows cans, with easily removed baffle tubes, I have done the posh version of drilling and tapping the end plate, the idea being that I could plug the holes with a bolt for the MoT. What a waste of time. No one give a s**t unless they are being deafened.)
), barely ate that month.