Quote Originally Posted by forchetto View Post
volksjagger, can you do us in Europe a favour?:
I notice that your exhaust pipe does not have a secondary air inlet port, so I think that your silencer has no oxidation catalyst either. Both these items are needed here in the EU to comply with some fatuous regulations about emissions.
If you have a look down the muffler, on the pipe end, can you see a honeycomb-like device plugging the intake? this is the catalyser.
It looks something like one of these:

forchetto,

i apologize for not seeing this post earlier. i do see something about 9-12 inches into the pipe but very difficult to be sure what it is until i open the pipe. i do know there is a turbine in it i believe used for back pressure allowing the power gains that this pipe is known for. pretty sure that is what i am seeing.

now as far as that hippie environmentalist restriction crap goes. i don't think you will find any motorcycle pipe made in the u.s. with the "oxidation catalyst" or the "secondary air inlet port" (i could be wrong but probably in the future if the 'we are all doomed' tree climbing crap flingers are not reigned in).

we use what is known as the "exhaust recirculation system" and it is built into the engine. we have very restrictive emissions laws in ca. you may have this in addition to the stuff in the pipe.

it is on most vehicles in the u.s. and is similar to the technology used in the new clean diesel engines without injecting a urea-based solution. it is more like the "NOx-storage catalyst" in the new 50 state legal vw diesel jetta (my next vehicle when it becomes available).

http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog...s/4235586.html

let me know if you see a small, shiny chrome/stainless steel/aluminum (whatever it is) pipe coming out of the front of your engine. it should be attached to a hose that goes into a little device that looks similar to a horn. Then there will be another hose running back into the airbox. that is the "exhaust recirculation system".

our aftermarket pipes focus more on power while keeping within the noise limits restrictions of 93 decibels, which i totally agree with.

here is the manufacturers self care instructions for the turbine core 2 silencer.

http://www.fmfracing.com/media/techs...rbinecore2.pdf