Need opinions on this exhaust...

I'm getting ready to instal a new MAC exhaust and need some input on how it looks:

looks good 2 me!

There is an exhaust? I was too busy looking at the rest of the bike! Sweet!!

Looks pretty good. I've got the same basic pipe on my kz650 cafe, watch your head pipes, after a couple of years of hard riding mine started to rust on me. I'm going to have to have the header ceramic coated sometime in the near future. Also, with the MAC exhaust can, if you can find a baffle from a Kerker K2 pipe it'll fit right in the MAC can, it's a better baffle (fiber wrapped instead of the fully mechanical baffle in the MAC) and makes the pipe sound and flow WAY better than the stock set up. You'd have to drill holes in the MAC can to match the set screws for the Kerker baffle, but easy to do.

industrial looking imo

Well, I own a Mac, V&H, Kerker, and Bassani. The Mac looks good but the only thing that I really think is lacking (and this is really trivial) as compared to the other pipes, is a badge on the canister. For some strange reason, those other pipes all seem to have a touch of class as compared to the Mac pipe...but this is probably attributable to personal taste.

I have that pipe on my bike. And I found that you can take an Autozone chrome exhaust tip, slide it in the end and drill it and bolt it in, and it dresses up real pretty:
Oh, and it sounds awesome. Deep and throaty. Almost like an open pipe when wide open, but when just putting out of the 'hood, it ain't too loud.

now that is a great upgrade.....neat as can be...niceriverroad wrote:

I have that pipe on my bike. And I found that you can take an Autozone chrome exhaust tip, slide it in the end and drill it and bolt it in, and it dresses up real pretty:

Oh, and it sounds awesome. Deep and throaty. Almost like an open pipe when wide open, but when just putting out of the 'hood, it ain't too loud.

Mcdroid wrote:

Well, I own a Mac, V&H, Kerker, and Bassani. The Mac looks good but the only thing that I really think is lacking (and this is really trivial) as compared to the other pipes, is a badge on the canister. For some strange reason, those other pipes all seem to have a touch of class as compared to the Mac pipe...but this is probably attributable to personal taste.

It's interesting that you would say that about the badge, I have acquired an original old/new stock kerker badge from KZ1000-R1 and planned on riviting it on the MAC can

As for the exhaust, it looks to hang a bit low and away from the frame. I might try and bend it up towards the frame to fill the gap a little.

I agree 100 percent. i think they look reay sweet when they follow the upward angle of the rear of the frame. it may be to much if u need rear pegs . but the higher the better for me.Not real long , just higher. i prefer the megaphone too.but thats just me.
In the end it just has to look good to you.

Nice lookin' bike. I think the exhaust needs to get a little tighter to the bike too. Is your seat on a big angle or is that a photo trick? I don't think I could get my leg over it and if I did I'd slide into the tank and not be able to get off. Tough gettin' old! :laugh:

Locozuna wrote:

Nice lookin' bike. I think the exhaust needs to get a little tighter to the bike too. Is your seat on a big angle or is that a photo trick? I don't think I could get my leg over it and if I did I'd slide into the tank and not be able to get off. Tough gettin' old! :laugh:

no, it the way the vinyl is covering the seat, there is actually a two teired seat there, but I have to heat up the vinyl and stretch it more. I shaved about 3 inches of the fatory seat as it once was almost even with the tank.