Hi misteright.... yea I was just talking about a length of pipe. Thanks for letting me know that performance would suffer. The reason that I'm wondering about all of this is that my next door neighbor is a great welder and said that he would make me one if we could come up with something to make. Can you point me in a direction? I need to know how to make a muffler!
Hey Mark. That helped a lot! You see, I'm lacking in the basic knowledge of tuned pipes right now and I'm trying to wrap my brain around it all. What you said made a lot of sense. I didn't know about "longer = top end and shorter = low end". That helps a lot.In my experience racing rc cars and trucks I learned a bit about tuned pipes. The length of the manifold (the length of pipe between motor and the "can" muffler) makes all the difference in the world. Longer = top end, shorter = low end power.
USUALLY, the designer of a muffler has a typical power range that they're looking to acheive at certain rpm's. A TUNED PIPE is when the length is set for a particular purpose.
So the real question is: what do you want to CHANGE in the performance? That will also help you determine "what" to do. It takes experimenting, and you have to be careful not to cut the pipe too short or lengthen it too long, where you will be moving the powerband to the wrong place.
Personally, I'm quite surprised nobody has really jumped on this to come up with their own brand of pipe...I do know that Dax has one, but I haven't seen it in stock ever.
I also think that if you're looking for a sound change, and perhaps more power, too, that you can remove the baffle from the stock pipe. I've read threads on how to do this before. If you're going to do that, I'd love to hear the results of it. I think that's the quickest and best change you should make because it's not permanant.
I have successfully pulled the baffles out of 2-stroke pipe and gained a performance increase (as well as a sound increase).
Hope that helped!
Mark
Thanks... I will keep this in mind when it comes to trying things out for the first time!
I for one would like a pattern for your pipe. with measurements. Post a link to the video.I make my own pipes I don't think they are what you would call true tuned pipe but I've made 4. Two for my bikes and one for Cruiser and one for Ilikeabikea and they didn't complain. I still have the rough patterns if you boys and girls are interested. The metal to use to make these is go to the body shops and ask for the wreaked body panels the shops will give them to you. I made all the pipes out of a dodge hood skin and a oxy/ acet. torch. I have pictures on this forum of my bikes with their pipes.
One week end me and ilikeabikea put on a live video how to on making a pipe on this forum so we showed that the average guy could do it, some of you people saw it quite boring.
Hi Norman, Yes, I am VERY interested in the patterns you have. If you can would you mind emailing them to me? here's my email addy: [email protected]I make my own pipes I don't think they are what you would call true tuned pipe but I've made 4. Two for my bikes and one for Cruiser and one for Ilikeabikea and they didn't complain. I still have the rough patterns if you boys and girls are interested. The metal to use to make these is go to the body shops and ask for the wreaked body panels the shops will give them to you. I made all the pipes out of a dodge hood skin and a oxy/ acet. torch. I have pictures on this forum of my bikes with their pipes.
One week end me and ilikeabikea put on a live video how to on making a pipe on this forum so we showed that the average guy could do it, some of you people saw it quite boring.
I gave seen your instructions on another channel on how to use a daves motors pipe.
Hi Ghost, Thanks for the idea... I will google them once I get through with this note. Everyone is being so helpful. I thank everyone so very much. I'm hoping to come out of this with a pipe that I can repeat manufacture and let all my friends (that's ya'll) try them out. I will do some searching and talk to my neighbor about it and see what he thinks...What I have found works well and is not that hard to do is adapt a pocket bike tuned pipe. They are inexpensive, not that difficult to adapt, and as long as you make provisions to adjust the length until you get it where you want it will work very well.
