Well, the moment we've all been waiting for (OK, I've been waiting for) finally arrived on Friday morning. The new exhaust system for the Mistress (AKA my motorcycle) showed up (thanks for the courier service, Dad!), which was really nice, because it wasn't scheduled to show up until Monday, and without having this weekend to work on it, I don't know when I would have found the time to do it all. So under the rouse of a garage party, I invited Danny over and lured Dan to the garage with a cold bottle of Crystal. We then spent the night tearing the bike apart. At Danny's suggestion, we completely removed the Carbs from the bike to do the jetting, as opposed to leaving them on, which would have been a bitch! As anticipated, the brass screws on the carbs were brutal to get off and we mangled a few, but everything went back on and there are no leaks... Whew! Next came the modification to the air box. Simple and cheap (i.e. free). Drill a couple holes in the back and cut out a slot facing forward to ram extra air into the system to compensate for the free flowing pipes and the added gas from the (much) bigger carb jets. The installation of the exhaust itself was probably the biggest pain in the ass. I wont go into details, but suffice it to say, at 1:00am we were all getting pretty frustrated with them. We finally managed to get them on, and called it a night at about 1:30am, with only the finishing reassembly left (put the gas tank and air box back on, reattach the forward controls, tighten everything up, etc.)Danny came back over this morning for the initial firing, and low and behold, once we got the carbs filled with gas, she fired right up and scared the shit out of all of us. Loud is an understatement for these things. I was really just looking for a power increase and some sleeker lines on the bike, but the rumble out of these things is capable of loosening fillings. Sweet. Sweet. Sweet.
To see a full set of pictures documenting this life altering modification (overstatement? maybe.) Check out Jess' brand new blog at the following link:
http://marriedtomaynerrd.blogspot.com/
To hear her roar, click here!
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he knows my weakness
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