Topic: exhaust swap on a cb550

[mazingerzeca]

Hello all.
I'm going to change the exhaust on a cb550 later model (picture 1), and I can not find the exhaust for this year. I've found the earlier model exhaust (picture 2), at a good price. The question is: will it fit on the later model? Thank you.

[mazingerzeca]

¿nobody has done it before?

[SteveD CB500F]

...not that I've ever heard of.

The mounting brackets will undoubtedly be different.

The later 550 exhausts are unobtainable now - the early ones are still made!

[neudl]

The brackets are different, so they won't fit without modificatin.  The 4-4 exhaust for the '77 and '78 bikes are rare as hen's teeth.  I picked up a set off e-bay, in decent shape, for $350 (ouch).  I mixed and matched with my old set for the best four.

[pablo78cb550]

if you want that look, just buy some Emgo wide mouth mufflers.

grind off the old mufflers from the headers. go online and buy the Emgo wide mouth mufflers from a parts supplier.  mount them to the headers, and bolt them on. you'll still probably need to fab a mounting bracket. but they're more of a straight through muffler.
so they'd be nice and loud.

[mazingerzeca]

Thanks for the replies.
In fact, I like most the old ones look. DSS has them on stock. If the only modification that I have to do is changing mounting brackets, I will go that route, if both models have the same diameter on the head, it could be easy to swap.

[OldSchool_IsCool]

Let us know how it goes.