These are some really sweet lookin' pipes. I wish to heck there was something similar for the "KZ440LOL" I'm building for my teenaged Ex-Daughter. I should get some pics from different angles, maybe they WOULD fit, come to think of it....
I'm surprised you guys were able to find local muffler shops willing to work in this smaller diameter tubing.
Heck that makes me wanna try & whip up a 4-4 system for my "CB900K0 Bol Bomber"! I've got an original WOLF pipe on it right now, but to tell the truth I wish there were better access to the sump and the oil filter. What I visualize would be four decent shotguns pipes running wide of the sump, and then I'd enlarge my patented "Sandwich Style" DEEP SUMP mod, with the sliced up CB750F sumps, maybe even go for something really huge down there, for the net effect of an RC-series like RC181, Gramma of all subsequent DOHC-four Hondas let alone all other Honda fours.
And when I think of the best way to make that work and muffle everything, I wish to hell there was an H-BOX for these bikes. If you check out the GL1000, it's got a great "four-into-Hbox-into-two" exhaust, and it looks awesome. IMHO that'd be one hell of a system for the DOHC-four. Especially if it LOOKS in the end just like four bare "shorty" shotgun pipes. Bloody complicated to construct, as compared to four bare simple tubes. Let alone sticking it onto the bike. Ah, but one can dream. Even if it makes me look like an ass when everybody else wants the pipe I've GOT. Well, at least they THINK they do.....
I miss the simplicity of a twin with unconnected parallel pipes. I guess that's what has me hankering after the 4-4.
But this one here, I'm gonna squint long & hard at pics (bike-porn pun intended) of Murray's pipes (just got weird) to see if it would fit the "KZ440LOL". IMHO the absolute DREAM exhaust would be a high-pipe SCRAMBLER set-up, with the chromed heat shields etc.
Plenty of folks doing cut-&-tack-&-weld exhausts, kits where you get two U-bends and a couple of straight sections. But I'm diggin' the thought that a local MUFFLER SHOP could bend up a pipe. Well - maybe YOUR local muffler shop. Around here, I've had a hell of a time just getting drum hubs skimmed out, paid through the nose for a steering-stem pressed out & cut. Ridonculous. Thinking I might take my next big job to the nearest bigger TOWN!
-S.