cut-down Muzzy pipe

[dagus]

This is a photo of the Hawk with the scuzzy Muzzy collector pipe I cut down ("slash-cut" like chopper pipes, at an angle) and popped onto the Hawk. The nice guys at the neighborhood muffler shop welded a tab onto it that bolts to that 3rd hole on the rearset and keeps it from falling into the road (again). Absolutely loud as hell.



Sorry about the quality, it's a camera phone. I can't get the scanner to work (which is why I haven't posted the good photos I promised yet)

[dagus]

I'll smack the scanner around and get better ones up, I promise!

[Ross]

I was screwing around the other day with my wife's hawk and fired it up with no canister on it. All I could think of was how loud your bike must be. I'd have a lynch mob after me (anytime other than this week) with a bike that obnoxious, but I'll bet it sure makes people take notice.

RD

[dagus]

Sorry about the shadows, I'm not the greatest photographer.





Loudest frickin' Hawk on the planet.

[Stevenjhow]

cool, is there anything inside that pipe to give back pressure? a baffle or something? did you have to rejet the carbs, if so, with which kit? I took my canister off and rode it for a while, even though I love the sound and how loud that is, I think I lost a bit of power, I have stock airbox and stock jetting.

[dagus]

There's nothing inside - yet. I do want to have a baffle welded in there though.

I was told it had a jet kit when I bought it in 2004 (I'm the 3rd owner) but the seller didn't know what kind (3rd party seller); there was a different homemade header and can (which didn't have internals either), and the airbox was cut up so much it barely had sides. A mechanic told me I was running lean, so I bought an intact stock airbox and that made it better. That's when I put on this thing.... yes, I've noticed a slight loss of power. Not so much that I really care, though.