Honda Odyssey and Pilot Forum

A few of us are heading to Little Sahara, Oklahoma in a week
April 22 thru April 25, (We will most likely be in the north campground)

Come join the fun....

Dennis

Alright all you GURU's.....

How can/should I Plug the twin pipe stingers and run the pipe exits out of the rear baffle cones ?

some history:
The FL670 Has custom dual exhaust pipes but I need to fab up some kind of quiet silencer...

Been reading about 2-stroke pipes - man they are complex...

I'm thinking about capping the ends and putting a "T" between the pipes going to a MBPR canister silencer....

Some newer sleds do this and I want to keep the exhaust all within the frame of the pilot
Currently my pipes are so long that they end at back of Frame leaving the silencer out in the open - YICK....

See Picts....

I could shorten the dwell on the pipes some but this would change the powerband - don't really want to do that...

I believe if I make the exits in the baffle cone I shouldn't be changing the dynamics of the pipes much - Am I correct ?

Any advise or recommendations out there ?

PS
The ulgy homemade gas tank has been replaced with a spun aluminum so I have lots of room for the new exhaust plumbing...

Well as our story begins, it is late fall 2004 and I am just finishing up doing the last (or so I thought) bit of maintenance on the two machines I am going to take to the Fall Ride at Litte Sahara OK

I have checked all the fluids and given both my Stock FL400 (wifes ride - or so called) and my Bad500 (My LT Pilot with a 400cc Cylinder Punched out to 500cc) the 10 point check over...

It's a nice fall evening and I've already done a couple of plug chops and everything is looking great.
I decide to take the Bad500 for a little spin around the farm and down the country roads...

I return about 15 minutes later and the Pilot is running great - One last pass to the top of the hill and I'm going to load it on the trailer for the trip. As I aproach the top of the hill, running about 50 MPH the engine slowly dies... I immediately reach down and pull the choke hoping that if I did get it hot I would be able to cool her off as I coast to a stop...

I hop out hoping that something simple happened like a) plug wire came off b) I accidently hit the kill switch c) the plug unscrewed itself (hey it's happend before) but everything looks normal...

After letting it cool down for about 10 minutes I try to give it a little pull via the start rope - Nothing doing - AH CRAP - At this point I'm guessing 4 point seizure.

Anyhow with very little time left before the Jambo I decide to push it in the garage and take my Work-in-progress FL670R instead... (In hind sight I'd guess I'd rather it blew before I loaded and halled it 8.5 hours to a ride area)

OK - Fast forward a little

Anyhow - here it is today (or so) and I have finially started tearing into the BAD500 to see what happened.

NOTE:
For those of you that didn't know the BAD500 has been my adopted experimental project since I bought it - no one seems to know its origin or who created such a beast. Many such as ATVR have said that they never punch out a FL400 cylinder to run the CR500 piston. CW Racing has admitted to doing this mod to some Pilots but claims his all have his markings on them...

It's been two years since I have had to tear into this machine so I (an others I assume) are kinda interested in seeing what has been going on...

Enjoy the Picts - Any/All thoughts are welcome...
Dennis

Are any of you fellow POOAers near Bloomfield Indiana ?
I need a small favor and will pay $50 cash for a little help.

Please email me at [email protected] if you are interested...

Thanks
Dennis