Hindle "silencers"

[PaulG]

So, after months of hummin' and hawin' I finally have my new Hindle slip-ons operating a few weeks ago.  I bought them back in January at the International Bike Show in Mississauga, Ontario.  They had a van load of the aluminum ones which they were discontinuing and sold at 1/2 price for $100 ea.  Winter streched into April this year, and having no place to work on them (and wanting to ride) it took a while to scout out materials to fabricate and mount them.

Being the minimalist that I am (i.e. cheap), I scrounged some 304 SS flat bar from work, and Hindle suggested 304 SS 16 ga. tubing for the exhaust.  I went to a metal shop http://metalsupermarkets.com/scarborough/, whose website indicated they carried it. Great, except they don't carry 16 ga., (actual words were "Never heard of it"), so I got two 18" x 2" pieces of a the next heavier guage (24 ga. ?) for $36.  It was a little too heavy for what I wanted, and decided to scrounge some more before I started fiddling.  At work I asked a maintenance mechanic if he had ever heard of 16 ga SS tubing, and in his thick Polish accent, "Ya, sure."

"Where do you get it?" I asked expectantly.

"Right over there,", as he pointed 20 ft away to the storage rack. 

So for the last few months it's been staring me in the face.  "What do you use it for?", his reply "I have no idea."  Problem solved.

Now, not being the expert in metal fabrication, I proceeded to cut, hack, drill, and grind up the bracketry, buy some T-bolt clamps and pipe gaskets.  Next was the tube bending, and after much interenet searching decided to take it to a muffler shop that also did some custom work, http://www.majesticmufflers.com/index.html.  They were very obliging, and helpful in informing me that 16 ga was very thin and could only be bent so far before it buckled.  Well I still had the thicker set so I told him to go ahead anyhow.  After eyeballing everything out, and a few return visits, we used the scientific method of "a little more... a little more... just a tad bit more... okay, stop."  Just like how Appolo 11 landed on the moon, and it only cost me $20.   

Total cost so far about $275.

I will rethink the bracketry this winter, when/if I can find a place for storage/work, a request which I will also post for any Ontario members near the GTA.

You'll also notice some puffs of black smoke on the "down-rev" (I had already warmed the bike up before I revved it up), any ideas on that?  Is it just burning too rich, or could it be something more?


The result of my medeival butchery worked out thusly (video link at the end);

































VIDEO - originally in 960p but Photobucket degraded it for the Flash player, but the sound is intact and that's all that matters.

http://vid839.photobucket.com/albums/zz315/pgirard005/FJHindle_zps2ef82114.mp4

[FJmonkey]

Very nice, and you did most of it your self. I like the sound, performance with every twist of the wrist.