Hey i had aquestion. Spring is nearing and i have saved some money for a new muffler system. I have a 2006 ninja 500r it has the stock muffler system on it. What would you recommend that sounds good and has some volume on it. Thanks

Travis

 

Is your stock one broken?
-CCinC

 

vance and hines lets you keep the center stand. the lower fairing will fit if you do some trimming.

muzzy i think you lose both fairing and center stand

hindle i think lets you keep both.

 

No there is nothing wrong with my stock. But i want to get something louder and sounds a little more powerful.

 

if you want louder, there are many options out there.

but you arent going to get any more power out of it.

the stock exhaust is not very restrictive as is.

 

pfft dont listen to them ...u want loud? go muzzy!

if u want a fast and responsive bike stay stock!

(sorry chris ...i beat ya to the punch :P)

 

If you want REALLY loud just take off the stock mufflers. I did it and got so annoyed with it i put them back on the very next day.

It sounded really powerful and i liked how it sounded when accelerating but once you reach a steady speed it just makes one very loud, very annoying tone.

I would way rather have a quite bike then a loud one

 

if high flowing exhaust systems were really quiet that would be the trend - everyone would be trying to make their cars and bikes quiet...

 

Impeccable logic as always, Kohburn: "Everyone else is doing it, therefore there it works."

I hope you have a Muzzy, because I appreciate all these dummies riding around with the loudest pipes possible (even if it does mean that the carefully-engineered balance of intake and exhaust pressures has been lost and the jetting will never again be correct*) because the end result for me is I now have a bike with Stealth technology without having to pay a cent for it. I've flown past radar guns and felt the icy-scalp sensation and the Oh-$hit-I'm-about-to-get-popped, and the cop didn't even look up. Heck, one time the cop even WAVED!
If we were all gazelles on the Serengeti Savannah and LEOs were lions, this would be the equivalent of some of us choosing to wear belled collars to announce that dinner is on the way.
IMO, if you want more power, trade up to a larger bike.
-CCinC
*And the reason jet kits initially appear to work is they solve any jetting and pressure problems by throwing more fuel at them, which is why all bikes that get pipes and jet kits get worse fuel economy; some of whom even get worse than 30mpg. And of course the resulting carbon build-up means a shorter service life for the engine, but how many of us plan on riding these until they actually wear out, right?