Gixxus Christ!

yeah nick bring your penis enlar....I mean vacuum bleeder. I have like 1/2 a gal of dot 4 from other customers leaving it behind and some Prestone 50-50 but idk how much.

Yeah there are only a couple confirmed attendees. I'd be surprised if turnout hit double digits. You are welcome to make that trip.

This is news? I've been drinking sam smith's and young's chocolate stout for years.

Yeah I'm kinda stoked. Might have the 849 running by then, depending on parts. Would be nice. Need a battery tho, bought one from advanced auto last year and it's already shot.

Pretty similar. I want to hear it too.

Do or do not. There is no try. -yoda

Oh yeah that's way too restrictive. If you wanna get another mac baffle go for it. If you want me to convert your can to a glass pack I can do that. If you give me a week or so I'll have my 750 back together and running and you can hear what it sounds like.

You could stop by

What exactly did you do to it?

One of only a few cruisers I'd own. Glws.

Oh I didn't realize the wiring was hacked.

Just need to trailer it to a sheriff's station to get it inspected and you can get that salvage title turned into a rebuilt title...then I'll sell some shit and buy it.

Tell ya what. I'm having a meet and greet the 11th. Bring it up and I'll build you a glass pack then and there. Materials will be about $30 and labor will be cheap. I'll get you sorted out for under $75 If it's the mac canister I'm thinking it Is. The only part I don't have in house is an exhaust reducer that costs $5 at autozone.

Never got it.

Ok. Whereabouts are you located? Also if you're the texting kinda guy we can continue this conversation that way if you wanna hit me up at 3303389708

First off what bike are we talking here and is it a canister or megaphone? glass pack ends up being the entire length of the can but it's a straight through design with a perforated steel tubing core wrapped in fiberglass mat. The exhaust gasses go right out and the sound waves diffuse through the holes in the perf tube and get deadened by the glass.

Don't have any aluminum thin enough to work and don't have any way to cut it quickly.

I've made glass packs for my mac muffler and still have the materials to make another one If you wanna go that route.

Lol if it's that hot Ill be dead and a droopy speedo will be the least of my problems lol.

Thanks. It's nice to see things coming together after looking at a pile of parts all winter.

If valves are adjusted properly and new plugs don't get you where you wanna go I'd start looking at what you've changed. Is the exup (or whatever yamaha calls it now) valve working properly? Can you fool the computer into opening it with the link pipe off so you can confirm full operation? Tps set properly? Throttle bodies synchronized? getting full fuel pressure to the rail? Fuel injectors showing proper resistance and operation? Secondary butterflies opening fully? If it were a major internal mechanical issue you'd be hearing horrible noises as your bike digested it's own innards. It's likely something to do with the fuel and air going in or the exhaust going out.

No sanding actually makes it rougher, it doesn't react well to abrasion. I thought of using maybe an iron and wax paper to smooth it out. Another option would be to make a mold and pour the stuff into it but that's another project for someone else, preferably someone with a milling machine in their garage. I'm happy with my lumpy, lop sided ugly bracket covered with my fingerprints and theres a dog hair in there somewhere too....it's a ratty old bike that has it where it counts (motor, electrics, soon the suspension and brakes) but not so much cosmeticly.

Thanks.

Tall to dtmbrian. Owner of dyno tune motorsports.

Completed! It's not pretty but it's functional. This stuff is not easy to work with once it sets. It doesn't mind being drilled but hates hack saws and most dremel bits. I was able to slop this together tho, and it's a functional part. In retrospect kydex would have been a better material but I don't have any kydex. The polymorph really shows stuff like fingerprints and uneven surfaces. It likes to just glob out into organic shapes if you don't cool it immediately after you have your desired shape. Pretty much any high-speed cutting tool in your garage will cause it to melt in the area you're cutting and you have to use the direction of your tool rotation to put the resulting path of raised melted plastic on the part your cutting away instead of the one you're keeping. It's fairly easy to wittle with a sharp pocket knife and I did a bit of detail work with my kershaw leek. Enough babble. Here's the image dump. The bend was tricky. Had to boil a steel rod to make an indentation where I wanted the bend, then microwaved the part for a few seconds to soften it up, bend it and hold the bend while cooling under running water.