Posted:  03 Jul 2009 02:49   Last Edited By: Phazernut	[?]
Registered User Currently Offline Join Date: Jun 2007	Posts:  391 Reputation:  8 [?] User Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Just installed a Jardine on my 09XB12Ss a week ago. Evere since I have had it on I can hear more engine noise than before with the stock pipe. Is this normal considering the different tones of the 2 exhausts. I seem to remember a similar ocurance when I installed a super trapp on my old KLR650 a few years ago. Nothing else has been done to the bike other that it just came back from service 2 days before I installed the pipe.

Posted:  03 Jul 2009 03:04	[?]
Registered User Currently Offline Join Date: Nov 2006	Posts:  516 Reputation:  4 [?] User Rank: Brigadier General
id think it would be the other wat around....by any chance is the weather warmer since the exhaust change

Posted:  03 Jul 2009 04:45	[?]
Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009	Posts:  206 Reputation:  3 [?] User Rank: Major
same thing happend to mine. after i wrapped the header it got rid of almost all engine noise, now its just exhaust.. i have a drummer on though

Posted:  03 Jul 2009 04:56	[?]
Moderator Currently Offline Join Date: May 2007	Posts:  3530 Reputation:  122 [?] User Rank: Four-Star General
Wrap it

Posted:  03 Jul 2009 09:51   Last Edited By: Phazernut	[?]
Registered User Currently Offline Join Date: Jun 2007	Posts:  391 Reputation:  8 [?] User Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Never thought that wrapping it would make that much difference. Does the headeres have to come off to wrap them? Where is a good source for the wrap? Of course it has to be black. The weather has been warmer as well but not crazy hot. 20 Degrees Celcius

Posted:  04 Jul 2009 01:51	[?]
Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009	Posts:  206 Reputation:  3 [?] User Rank: Major
just buy header wrap and start wrapping. you dont need to take the header off. i would buy good brackets for the auto parts store though, the ones they give you in the sets suck. but yes wrapping got rid of my engine noise and made the exhaust sound a little deeper. i like it.. keep in mined after you wash the bike or ride in the rain the wrap will get wet causing a lot of steam to come off the header. looks like the bike is on fire at stop lights. kinda funny

Posted:  04 Jul 2009 01:53	[?]
Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009	Posts:  206 Reputation:  3 [?] User Rank: Major
mine is gray wrap though.. it lighted up after i put it on

Professional Web Design and eCommerce Optimization by Slingshot SEO, RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0

Welcome to our Buell forum! Shop performance motorcycle parts.