the idea of adding aftermarket exhaust for a few horses and a nice rumble is attractive...but is it going to add to the bikes fuel consumption?

 

Most of the time you don't need to re-jet the bike, but if you do, with most aftermarket cans you only need to go up one jet size, so the diff is ot great.

I think the VTR is jetted slightly rich stock, (check out your stock pipes, are the ends black? How about the sparkplugs?) if this is true, and you go to aftermarket exhuast you could actually see an increase in gas mileage.

my two yens worth.

Cheers!

 

I love the look, sound, and performance of my Jardine RT-One
Highmounts!

8) TJ 8)

 

right on... =D
that would be really cool if we could hear the sounds of different pipes.

can you even get pipes/jets on a new bike without nixxing the warranty?
also, to keep the passenger pegs, does one need to have low pipes?

 

First of all..... the milage on a superhawk is pathetic, but at least there's very little you can do to make it worse! As has already been said, if your mileage changes that much its more likely from your wrist than any mechanical changes. You'll be blipping the throttle every chance you get.

On Jetting: I had spent WAY too much time back in 2000-2001 researching whether or not the Jardine high mounts would cause me to re-jet. The overall answer was NO!!! I received the cans 20 mins before leaving for Mid-Ohio for superbike weekend. We put them on as soon as morally possible after getting up there. (I don't think camp was even fully set up yet) I rode all that weekend and then a very small bit the rest of that year. Then something went wrong. Bike wouldn't start, couldn't get it off idle, sounded lean has hell everywhere on the rev range (if you could even get it to rev). We wrote it off to bad gas and sitting for almost a year untouched... cleaned the carbs... about 5 times. You could eat off them. Had fouled plugs. (fouled plugs when it's running lean?!) That was last year.

Fast forward to this year. The entire time I had a factory jet kit for the bike sitting in the house. I had refused to mess with it because the bike was "running fine before" and I didn't want to add another variable. I gave in and installed the needles (4th position) and the bike fired and tried to run. I took it all back apart and installed the air jets. Bike runs and starts better than it ever had.

Moral to this long-*** diatribe? You may or may not have to jet the bike. Why its different I'm not smart enough to comprehend, but it seems some people don't and some people do.

Finally on the passenger pegs. As far as I know all low-mount pipes keep the pegs. SOME high mount pipes allow you to keep them as well. The Jardines come with hardware to let you remount the pegs. In doing so you end up moving the passengers feet about a foot wider apart, and it seems to me that it would be really easy for them to lay their feet on your pretty pipes as well. I never mounted mine so I can't say for sure.

 

Those Staintunes sound like a fricken big block Chevy! I kinda liked the partial (8 hole) but he didn't rev the full baffle enough to really hear it.