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If I get or make the exhaust adapters, will these 650 pipes give me trouble since they are not designed for the 1000?

Flow and stress wise, you have no worries. But...not sure about the pipe sizes matching Chewy's adapters. (Chewy makes nice stuff. Running his angle adapters on mine...nice!) Not meaning to rain on your parade, but that seems like a LOT of work to make happen and will have the large flange then smaller pipe then can which might look a bit 'busy'. Absolutely agree the SV deserves to sing louder than stock, but I would (did) save up and get the proper cans.

If money is tight, in the interim you can easily modify the stock cans for more sound. The SV is a great bike, and this is a great forum with a lot of very knowledgeable people. Good luck with your modding!

 

Thanks for the reply RecoilRob. I was thinking about your point that it might look kind of goofy having a pipe, squarish flange, then pipe, then an exhaust canister. I also think after taking some measurements that my chances of making my own adapter that works on the first try are pretty low.

With that in mind, I found this eBay listing by a gentleman who has 100% positive feedback with a score of 188 and makes his own exhaust cans. It is bolt-on so I won't need any adapters or anything, and it costs $310 after shipping. Could I get your honest opinion? Reviews seem to indicate people like them.

 

I just installed those ebay pipes and they sound very good. Pretty loud though but in a deep ducati type of way. I also have stock modified mufflers that sound amazing as well not as loud as my new ones but they still have the same deep rumble. The real advantage with the ebay ones is the weight savings, one stock muffler is heavier then both put together lol.

 

I would say the best route to go would be to go to a shop that does exhausts and have them make up a mid-pipe that would work.

 

Could I get your honest opinion?

Absolutely! The 'shorty' mufflers aren't my thing as they would be way too loud. Quality wise, those look fine and if you like the can ending at the hanger you can't do much better.

I don't want to open a can of worms, but found the Yoshi TRS cans without baffles caused a fueling glitch on mine. Like a hole or bog in the midrange. Adding fuel with a Wiseco Fuel Controller cleaned that right up, but I ended up putting the 'low volume' baffles in and going back to the stock ECU tuning.

Many people are running very open exhausts without complaint, so my bike might be an anomaly...but going too far on the exhaust brings with it the possibility of added tuning complications.

 

The 'shorty' mufflers aren't my thing as they would be way too loud.

I suspected this, it was a real toss up between the shorties and longer pipes. Since this is my only real 'performance' related modification I don't really want to deal with remapping, severe lean pops, or strange fueling issues. I'm thinking I will just go with the longer cans to be safe and I'm sure the sound will be great.

I just installed those ebay pipes and they sound very good.

Awesome! Glad you are happy with them. It's great to hear from someone who has used them. eBay reviews seemed to be unanimously positive.

Thanks again everyone!

 

I suspected this, it was a real toss up between the shorties and longer pipes. Since this is my only real 'performance' related modification I don't really want to deal with remapping, severe lean pops, or strange fueling issues. I'm thinking I will just go with the longer cans to be safe and I'm sure the sound will be great.


Awesome! Glad you are happy with them. It's great to hear from someone who has used them. eBay reviews seemed to be unanimously positive.

Thanks again everyone!

If it helps i just bolted on the shortys and my bike runs fine. No remapping or anything needed. I dont get pops either. I still have the oem air filter though.

The sound is not really that loud after the innitial holy crap its loud week of riding lol. It sounds like a deep ducati, let me see if i can find that vid of one of the members who just installed one.


Here it is

 

There is a thread on here somewhere that this guy did. Adapted a Honda civic carbon muffler for like $45.00 or something. If I didn't spent +800 on my dual 2 bros carbon, I would have done that.
I'm sure the forum gurus will help out on that. Good luck.

 

After some budget discussion with my significant other, I think I am going with the TopSpeed exhaust. It's simple installation, much lighter than modded stock pipes, has solid reviews, and the price is good.

Thanks again to everyone, I appreciate all the replies!

 

One last thing, and I don't mean to hijack my own thread...but I bought this bike used and it is missing a small cover that I can't seem to find the name of. If you look at the image here: http://image.sportrider.com/f/28183774/146_1004_19_o+2003_suzuki_sv1000s+dash.jpg it is the small flush-mounted cover that lies directly above the throttle cable covers. I have the left but the right one is missing. What is it called? Also, my SV has a full fairing which I don't see often (seems like the S models usually had an upper and a small chin fairing). Is a full fairing OE?

Thanks again!

 

http://www.ronayers.com/Fiche/TypeI...2003/ModelID/6486/Model/SV1000S/GroupID/271286/Group/COWLING_BODY_SV1000SK3_SK4

Part #11---Lid, Meter Panel

The Ron Ayers fiche system is wonderful for finding parts on the bikes.

Suzuki did offer full fairings on some bikes and as an accessory.

 

Awesome, thanks RecoilRob! Excellent resource, that's a bookmarker for sure.

Well I ordered the Top Speed exhaust from eBay. Really impressed. Build quality was excellent, mounting went well, weight reduction was a relief, and sound was surprising. Throaty, deep sound that isn't tinny or crackly. I had a fellow come up to me at a gas station and say it sounds like a Ducati (which is what I thought, nice to know I wasn't the only one). I would highly recommend these. I plan on taking some close-up pictures and maybe some video/audio so other possible buyers can get good look at them.

Performance-wise, I can't say I really noticed much of a difference (I wasn't looking for HP, just sound). It definitely sounds faster, but I'm sure that's an artifact of the new sound. With the rest of the bike being stock, the lean pops are pretty minimal (maybe 2 decent pops if you decel from around 6k down to idle) so I am not too worried about running lean.

Overall, super happy, well worth the cost. Thanks a lot to everyone, I will be posting later this week with a link to my website with some photos and maybe video to help others who are interested in these pipes. Other than that, all my questions are answered! Thanks!

 

Good to see you worked something out. I was going to suggest drilling out the back of the stock cans. My '03 had that before I put my 3/4 Yoshi on it and it sounded pretty good.

 

Didnt bother reading the replies, but keep a look-out for TL cans too. Those bolt on and you can often find them (used) for a lot cheaper than SV cans.

 

Yupp thats what i did. i went from stock, to the top speed shorty exhaust( WAY TO LOUD) to carbon kerker's I got for 150$ on ebay in perfect condition. then I cut them into shortys and they're still much more quiet than the top speed exhaust.
Stock when I bought it last year.

top speed ( I wear full gear now...)

Kerker to shorty kerker