My dudes!!
THIS is why I love motorcycle forums, guys. THANK YOU. Wow. Just wow. I've belonged to the VJMOG, 2-stroke World, CB1100F.net (still a member), and the ZRXOA forum. ALL are great....and now I'm loving KZrider.
Boy......that is really disheartening - but also not terribly surprising - that the new Kerker quality isn't even in the same stratosphere as the old ones. *Sigh*......that sucks. I'm sold on the Delk now.....you just can't beat stainless, plus the price is less than HALF of a Kerker.
I'm KICKING my own face for not pulling the trigger on a NOS Supertrapp that popped up on eBay this winter. And it was cheeeaaapp.....like, 275.00...or something like that. Would have created a marital kerfuffle though...lol. Wife rides a 2001 W650.....so, she's in the cool-kids Kawi club, but she and I have VERY different financial approaches to motorbike ownership! LOL!
OK - wow. Digesting all of this. I'll keep looking. Yeah - I'm seeing that the MAC header is actually pretty good. I think mine has around 2k miles on it, maybe more, and it still looks great. It's the chrome pipe. But the SOUND!! It's just kind of tinny....or....boy, it's hard to explain. I had a V&H 4-1 on my '81 CB900F and it growled. I loved that pipe AND the bike. I also had a MAC on my '82 GPZ750.....and I remember it sounding tinny too....now that I think about it. I'm just looking for the deep roar/growl that we all love.
Anyone else have success getting a different can on the MAC 4-1 header? I'm sure with some basic bracket fabbing and ingenuity I can get something else on there. I'm a pretty good fabricator if that's where this needs to go.
THANKS AGAIN, guys. Cheers.