So yesterday I sat eyeing the exhaust... It's a 4 into 2 all welded up so I can't (easily) pull it off, nor preform a bafflectomy without doing some cutting.
Let's see what I've got laying around before I cut anything off.
(Background: 5 years ago I started a motorcycle club in So. Cal. and Saturdays used to be "Bike day at the CRASH! pad" where I invited people to come over and help them work on bikes. From there me and two friends opened up a motorcycle shop. I recently left the partnership when I moved out of the area. All the while I'd keep misc parts that may come in handy some time down the line. So I've got boxes and boxes of brake calipers and lines, levers, handledbars & clip ons, headlights, footpegs, misc brackets,and about 20 exhaust cans. My names CRASH! and I'm a packrat.)
So in rummaging around I had alot of stock and aftermarket cans... But I needed a matching pair for each side of the LTD. Then I found the stock exhaust of a Ninja 250 (Tha. Mrs' first bike, now long gone)Two cans, black... Hmm. I took some measurements and the head pipes are the same diameter as the LTD's and I can drill out the rivets and remove the baffle. PERFECT!
So I cut off the stock exhaust, cut down the headpipes on the Ninja exhaust and welded them up. The stock brackets nearly lined up with the hole for the rear footpeg. ALMOST. So I made small brackets to hang the cans. The stock heat shield worked perfect to hide my ugly welds.
All said and done I sat back to admire my handywork.
I don't like it.
Well I don't, don't like it... But I'm not awed by it's amazing presence either. It did give the bike a bit more growl, but it kind'a sounds like a Ninja 250. I'm also not sure about the black end cans on the chrome exhaust. I could sand and polish them to make it look a bit better. But I'm not sure if I should bother.
In the end it still looks like a stock exhaust.
So if you're looking to do something with your exhaust and have a Ninja 250 set laying around, it can be made to fit with ease.
I may try and track down a 4 into 1 an throw on one of the aftermarket cans I have. Or make my own.
OH, and "
mykznme"... DANG you! Now I think I need to paint the fork legs. LOL But it may be too much black. A fork rebuild is on the list so I may do it will they're off.
rstnick: You comin over for a barbecue? heh heh
Ride'on,
~CRASH!~