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It seems that a lot of people have been hit by people breaking into their shit.
Last week, I decided to modify the exhaust on my gsxr1k by shortening the canister. I like the high-mount, but hated how long the can was, so I cut about 2/3 off it, modified the mounts internally to the can, etc, and put it back together.
The original exhaust looked like this:
I thought it was ugly, but liked the way the tail was exposed. I found a high-mount because I like how clean they typically look:
However, a few rides, I kind of got tired of how big the exhaust can is, so I handled it:
Now that part's done, I'm thinking about doing away with the S bend so it's no longer a high-mount and just have a straight pipe going to the shorty muffler and using the factory mount (or fabbing one) to keep the tail clean. Main reason for redoing the mid-pipe is because my heal rests on the top part above the heat shield. Originally, i was going to add 6-8" at the bottom of the S bend to move the whole thing back, which is why I shortened the pipe, but the more I look at GP-style exhaust, the more I like it.
Anyway, this was on like Tuesday & Wednesday of last week, just a couple hours each day.
My wife calls me around 3pm on Thursday (V-day) and says we've been robbed. I get home and find my bikes & cougar are still intact, but $3050 in cash is gone, along with about another $3000 in small electronics (2x laptops, digi cam, 3x mp3 players, 3x Nintendo DS, HDD, etc). I was sofa king pissed and wanted to kill people.
I've had my car broken into, but nothing felt worse than knowing someone broke into my house and went through everything. The ass even took the time to find the USB cable for my sansa view. I called Brinks that night and had their asses at the house at 8:30am the next day.
I saw Dino talking about the Katrina people and feel the same way. Once Houston filled up, they came here and our crime rate has turned to complete shit. The investigator told me that in his typical 8hr shift, he's seen around 10-15 break-ins a day in my area (assuming general NE side).
Seriously, it makes me want to bait my house and hide out in waiting for some dumb bastard to come in through my window again so I can 'fear for my life'. I won't, though, because I know better, and blood is hard to clean out of off-white carpet.
On another note, I thought I'd be able to buy a 3rd 2gnt and was looking around, but now that I'm missing $3050 in cash (and had to pay for Brinks installation), it's gonna have to wait.
So, for now, I'll stick to driving my mustang (although I'm kind of bored with it), and riding my bike. I was scheduled for a track day (road course style) at MSR-Houston on the 24th, but don't have the money for it now. The people were cool and let me reschedule for March 16th, though.
I really like the LTH design that's out, but I feel it could be better by adding some 'steps' to it, or simply one step, and go with a 4-2-1 design. In the i4 bike world, all the top performing exhausts use a stepped 4-2-1 design. However, my bike turns 13.5k RPMs and my wife's does 15.5k. Now, my busa redlined at 10.6k and the header design was the same. On the dyno, it would start to trail off before hitting redline, so I know the header design is useful in the usable RPM range (3-8k).
Funny thing is, I used to spend HOURS on this board ever day and used to wonder how anyone could leave the site, but as time progresses, we all change in some way. I was an active member on hayabusa.org for a while, but have since dropped off, and tried sportbikes.net, but some of those guys are tools, and I don't even bother with gixxer.com. I found some good friends on a few local boards, but nothing compares to the feeling I get from this place.
I was thinking about it the other day, how it'd be cool to have a summer get together where all of us could rent a beach house or two for an extended weekend (or a week) and just goof off. I thought about talking to the local sport bike board people, but some are squids and I don't want to have anything to do with them.
So, yeah, I just wanted to pop in, say hello, talk about some cool shit I did, some shit that sucked, throw some ideas out there, and that's about it. Typical 2gnt day I guess  ~Luke
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In researching what I wanted to do, I had in mind a certain design (pretty much what I ended up doing), but I wanted to check other stuff out. From when I raced the mustang, I remember the higher rpm headers were always the 4 into 1 on each side (and obviously, 2 into 1 with a crossmember tuner or whatever etc.) As a matter of fact the 4-2-1 (on each side of course) were pretty much shunned. Now that is one animal that's just related. I then checked into what the Honda guys were doing. 4-1 etc. Still fitting my original design. What I know about the 4-2-1 header design is that it will give you a bit more midrange at the expense of top end (general concept). 
), hoping it'll someway help you progress farther.
