bodge: carbon fibre exhaust

[Hahadumball]

started my bike today, being cold had a fair bit of condensation out the exhausts and noticed it was blowing onto my tyre.... looked underneath to see a decent sized hole in the carbon fibre... yay!

explains why 1 exhaust wasnt blowing as hard as the other.

any way to bodge this? or am i going to have to spend £30 on a carbon fibre kit to fix.

i have the exhaust and sleeve off at the moment.

gotta spend £££ to get it compression and leak tested next week too soo all £ saved = win
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Fin: no matter how much I look at It I can't understand what was going through my head, all I remember is going about 80 and redlining it to stop it seizing.
360 Deg... Five 1/4 turns. :- Teflon-Mike 18 Jan 2015

[sickpup]

[Hahadumball]

[Ste]

Carbon cans on a big v-twin?

Well they're not going to last long, replace them with something better.

[temeluchus]

someone sold him a lemon, whodathunkit?
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Some shite cruiser. Now with guns and FREEDOM!

[sickpup]

You only ever do a leak down test if the compression test shows low compression and the results are open to interpretation.

If it has low compression you may as well just dump the bike unless you know someone who does head work and rebores.

[Hahadumball]

well its at 25k and valve clearances haven't been done, no amount of carb work has changed the surging at a cruise.
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Fin: no matter how much I look at It I can't understand what was going through my head, all I remember is going about 80 and redlining it to stop it seizing.
360 Deg... Five 1/4 turns. :- Teflon-Mike 18 Jan 2015

[Hahadumball]

[sickpup]

[Hahadumball]

[sickpup]

[Hahadumball]

no fuel pump graivty fed with vacuum hose from carb not blocked

surging is at 3500rpm+ and only when i hold the throttle steady, fine if i accelerate or decelerate.

chains great condition not slack not tight and well oiled.

ht leads and plug cap all good, plugs good.

airbox is standard

i got into the carbs because it had been jetted when i got it, i set it back to standard and its not changed it.
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Fin: no matter how much I look at It I can't understand what was going through my head, all I remember is going about 80 and redlining it to stop it seizing.
360 Deg... Five 1/4 turns. :- Teflon-Mike 18 Jan 2015

[Hahadumball]

fixed the running issue

too much air, pair of tights over airbox.
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Fin: no matter how much I look at It I can't understand what was going through my head, all I remember is going about 80 and redlining it to stop it seizing.
360 Deg... Five 1/4 turns. :- Teflon-Mike 18 Jan 2015

[temeluchus]

[RhynoCZ]

Anyway, for the exhaust silencers, you need to change the fillings in them, or you're gonna burn a hole in it. Well carbon composite exhausts just crumble apart. It's the aluminium and stainless steel that gets holes burned through the casing of the exhaust.
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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