Matthew Duncan Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Was giving my bike a good clean yesterday and took the baffles out the exhaust to polish the tip... its my FZ6, and it has LeoVince Evo II Slip-ons on sound reallly nice without the baffles, not quite as loud as my SV at low revs but screams when neering the redline. Whats the legality of this? tempted to leave them out... Cheers Matt
Moderator DirtyDT Posted February 10, 2014 Moderator Posted February 10, 2014 Legal providing it is a road can and not marked differently, isn't too loud and the insurance company knows. It may fail an MOT due to excessive noise.
Matthew Duncan Posted February 10, 2014 Author Posted February 10, 2014 been pulled before on my sv, the SV has a IXIL race can on it, straight through with "not for road use" on it - the bobby just looked at it and laughed. its the same one i had on for my MOT
Moderator DirtyDT Posted February 10, 2014 Moderator Posted February 10, 2014 You asked for legallity, not if you might get away with it. Another day might have got you a fine, points and another trip to the MOT station.
Moderator drewpy Posted February 10, 2014 Moderator Posted February 10, 2014 The MOT says it mustn't be too loud. All in the ears of the inspector. If it says "not for road use" on the can, then its illegal. I have a cut down Yoshi on my xs400 and there's no baffles in there. I Just keep the revs down near Police!
slice Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 You have to be careful taking the baffles out Matthew cos they actually do a job in there, you will loose back pressure so you need to re time the engine and check your jet sizes and adjust the fuel flow, not as easy as you think just taking the baffles out cos it will eat your pistons if you don't watch out. Had a Honda many years ago and it ate the valves and the pistons after about 150 miles sounded good tho still it fell apart.
Moderator Cynic Posted February 10, 2014 Moderator Posted February 10, 2014 The ears of the inspector are fine for old timers like ours andy. Even as new we could make a good noise. The latest stuff is like 84db or something like. More important, if plod catches you without baffles then you get in to due dilligance crap, as you driving an unfit vehicle intentionally. Depends how lucky you feel and how fresh out of school the pleb, er plod is.
Moderator drewpy Posted February 10, 2014 Moderator Posted February 10, 2014 The ears of the inspector are fine for old timers like ours andy. Even as new we could make a good noise. The latest stuff is like 84db or something like. More important, if plod catches you without baffles then you get in to due dilligance crap, as you driving an unfit vehicle intentionally. Depends how lucky you feel and how fresh out of school the pleb, er plod is. true, mines an old bike so plod may/have to give some latitude in exhaust noise levels.
Matthew Duncan Posted February 11, 2014 Author Posted February 11, 2014 Only reason i have left them out was cos it sounded less raspy, as for the engine damamge - it has a power commander 3, if i was going to keep them out i would get it re mapped.
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