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Offline JAG

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Yoshimura Exhaust
« on: January 18, 2008, 11:04:35 PM »
Anyone know where to find online where I may purchase a 4-1 Yoshimura Exhaust for a cb750?

Is there anything 'like' the Yoshimura Exhaust, that people prefer or is a little more cheaper?

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2008, 11:34:07 PM »
check yamiya750e.com for a similar exhaust made by a performance company in japan.  you could alos bid on one using yahoo japan, however they are no longer manufactured.

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2008, 04:42:40 AM »
Yoshi still make exhausts. They are available for big Zeds and are expensive (£560)

Their UK distributor is www.singlestosuperbikes.co.uk
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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2008, 05:13:00 AM »
Looked like one and was brand new I bleieve. Went for over $500 on Ebay about two weeks back. Said it was awesome sounding. Good luck.

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2008, 05:39:44 AM »
hope this link works its motorcycle accessory wharehouse they have yoshimura, vance and hines, kerker,etc. i don't think they have pictures of things but you can request a catalogue and it pretty thick, all kinds of riding goodies tires pipes.....  ;D ;D



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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2008, 06:28:05 AM »
  Yoshimura made 2 types, hand-bent and machine-made. The hand-bents had very sexy continuous-curved header pipes and are kinda cobby-looking. Pops himself made very few of these, extremely rare. Heres a pic of my hand-bent Yosh pipe. Sounds totally sick is an understatement. Wish I knew somebody to reproduce it.


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« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2008, 06:36:27 AM »
  Yoshimura made 2 types, hand-bent and machine-made. The hand-bents had very sexy continuous-curved header pipes and are kinda cobby-looking. Pops himself made very few of these, extremely rare. Heres a pic of my hand-bent Yosh pipe. Sounds totally sick is an understatement. Wish I knew somebody to reproduce it.


That pipe is begging to be ceramic coated. I can hear it telling me that from here. ;)
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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2008, 06:40:30 AM »
 Its off the bike and getting ceramic coated this week. Satin black ceramic (or should I go polished aluminum finish?)

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2008, 06:58:57 AM »
Black would look fantastic!

Is the muffler on the pipe?  You should post pics of the before/after coating.

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2008, 07:47:02 AM »
muffler?
we don't need no steenking mufflers!

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2008, 08:27:40 AM »
 w/o a baffle this pipe makes the SCARIEST DEEP BELLOW IMAGINABLE but everytime I run it like that on street, its definately a ticket-magnet.

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2008, 09:18:25 AM »
I was going to get one through carpy. He was charging $1000 usd for it, I wanted to do some shopping around and try and find them myself..

Thanks for the help, I shot an e-mail to singles to superbikes, and I requested a catalog from the other site..

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2008, 09:26:52 AM »
Yoshi still make exhausts. They are available for big Zeds and are expensive (£560)

Their UK distributor is www.singlestosuperbikes.co.uk

For a 750, I had emailed Yosh Japan and they said they no longer had stock and had stopped manufacturing them as there wasn't a demand for them.

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2008, 09:51:27 AM »
  Yoshimura made 2 types, hand-bent and machine-made. The hand-bents had very sexy continuous-curved header pipes and are kinda cobby-looking. Pops himself made very few of these, extremely rare. Heres a pic of my hand-bent Yosh pipe. Sounds totally sick is an understatement. Wish I knew somebody to reproduce it.


That pipe is begging to be ceramic coated. I can hear it telling me that from here. ;)
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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2008, 09:52:16 AM »
There must be more surviving 750/4s in the world than Z1s (surely)

There must be a market...
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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2008, 09:54:18 AM »
All I'm saying is I contacted them and they no longer produce them, stopped making them a few years ago...

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2008, 11:00:11 AM »
 Who can reproduce my pipe?

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2008, 11:18:31 AM »
Try to figure out the bend radius. I suspect most headers started out as a hand bent prototype before thety went to mass production... so you should be able to make them.

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2008, 11:24:43 AM »
+1 and then its custom ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2008, 01:42:01 PM »
Could you go to your local muffler shop? Maybe they'd be able to customize something for you.

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2008, 03:21:34 PM »
Carpy gets them somehow..  They are on all of his bikes.  I love the look of them. The end of it kind of sneaks out past the foot peg.

I have never really been a big fan of the megaphones.  But to each his own, right?!

This pic has one of them on there..  That's also the style I am trying to go for.. I wander how hard it would be to make you own knee inserts into the gas tank??  Any thoughts on that?
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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2008, 03:35:15 PM »
They look like the replica ones I was talking about, see here (Yamiya doesn't show them on their English site anymore):

http://yamiya750.com/eshopdo/refer/refer.php?sid=zeksrv7&cid=7&scid=&vmode=&view_id=M011

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2008, 03:50:56 PM »
That's definitely them! It showed a picture of it.  I can't get the download right on the Japanese translation thing.. How much do they run, shipping and all?
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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2008, 03:54:31 PM »
They are $350 plus shipping (probably ~$50).  They have an English site, yamiya750e.com, but they weren't listed on there today when I looked.  They also have chrome ones.  Maybe contact them through their English site. 

They are manufactured by KSY out of Japan, see link here:

http://www.autoparts-ksy.co.jp/

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Re: Yoshimura Exhaust
« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2008, 04:14:51 PM »
Well then I wonder why I was going to be charged $1000 for them..  Is there something different that I just don't know about??? ??? ??? ???
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