any way, last sunday evening I ordered one of them cans, It was straight forward enough, just paypal'd it and once the order was accepted I was sent a shipping/tracking number (you have to follow the tracking via Hong Kong mail) It was dispatched on tuesday the 22nd and gave a delivery estimation anywhere between July 5th and July 27th......... It came yesterday morning via parcel force
it was well packaged inside a polystyrene and cardboard casing, this contained the can, strap and adaptor. it also contained two springs and two weldable spring clips, I have Delkavic headers and a Micron link pipe, the end can was Delkavic (talk about a friggin cocktail of parts) the end can was held on with a clamp, although the new can has two tags for attaching the springs too.
decisions, decisions,,,, there's a company about a 5 minutes ride away called flowtech that do all things bendy and pipey, they have helped me with bikes exhaust before and made me a beautiful link pipe for a tdm 850. I couldnt be bothered getting the spring clips welded on, so it was out with Mr Grinder
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I removed both tabs from off the can being careful not too damage anything and making sure I left as little weld left as possible so I could finish it off with a file, I also cut 4 small slits to enable the sleeve to close down on the link pipe when it was pushed and clamped onto the link pipe.
a little bit of file work and all was good and fitting snuggly together.
all tightened up and wobbled/shaken to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything and it was time to hear what it sounded like.
with decibel killer in place it gives a pleasant yet still volumous growl, with decibel killer out it gives a rapturous roar (your neighbours will not like you) I don't like him either so the DB killer is sat in my tool box awaiting MOT day.
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fitting took about an hour, and most of that was spent filing the thing clean and autosol'ing my link pipe shiny again. you could be quicker if less fussy, or a lot longer if you don't have a grinder and hacksaw the tags off.
I forgot to weight the can, but it weighed naff all, it's alloy sleeve with carbon effect and stainless end caps, I used all original fixings because I trust their strength, I threw all Chinese bolts in the bin as I don't trust their strength.
i'll get a piccy up in a few minutes of the new can.
my momma always says, stupid is as stupid does.
that's all i gotta say about that
you looking at getting one skippernick ?
