EPA moves close to home

External Since: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 36

I'm told by a local bike shop that the EPA is setting up shop around
Bathurst/Orange for six weeks from early April. (What's with you Old
Road guys? Running out of noise to keep them busy or something?) Just
when I'm getting my "sticker tax exemption label" organised and now find
that the old GS is running 103 semi-official decibels according to my
friendly local muffler shop. I tested it at home at 104, so it's
improving. It looks like some canning factory work to get it down to
100, as well as the label.

Kim

External Since: Aug 19, 2003 Posts: 1205

Sayeth Dr.Shifty <kkm RemoveThis @tpg.com.au>:
> I'm told by a local bike shop that the EPA is setting up shop around
> Bathurst/Orange for six weeks from early April. (What's with you Old
> Road guys? Running out of noise to keep them busy or something?) Just
> when I'm getting my "sticker tax exemption label" organised and now find
> that the old GS is running 103 semi-official decibels according to my
> friendly local muffler shop. I tested it at home at 104, so it's
> improving. It looks like some canning factory work to get it down to
> 100, as well as the label.

Hey Shifty, if it's a straight-through type can try just repacking
it with new fibreglass, should cost you about $10 for the glass and
a couple of bucks worth of rivets. Made a huge difference to my
XLV can.

The other thing I did, to cut the noise down further and stop stray
kittens from getting lost in the headers, was to put a bit of
steel-with-1/4"-round-holes-in-it just inside the end cap, covering
the pipe exit. Restricts exhaust flow a tiny bit but makes a huge
difference to the noise ... pretty much all the 'crack' is gone,
just the rumble remains ... and I didn't have to rejet so it can't
have made that much of a difference to the engine.

Ugly, but also easy to remove once the EPA bugger off. If I get
the XLV back on the road I'll have to get me one of them
stickers ... the exhaust is home-made.

-----sharks