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Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:57 am
by Saltychips
G'day i'm soon to own an RVF400 starting next week. I've got a few questions. Mainly to do with the SP exhaust systems, Is it possible to run a system like that with a Tyga body kit ? Instead of the stock fairing. Thank you.

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:14 am
by Neosophist
Saltychips wrote:G'day i'm soon to own an RVF400 starting next week. I've got a few questions. Mainly to do with the SP exhaust systems, Is it possible to run a system like that with a Tyga body kit ? Instead of the stock fairing. Thank you.
SP exhaust system?

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:23 am
by CMSMJ1
the MHP style SP systems I reckon.

I would go for a no - they mount to the std subframe but if you have the cash to waste then I am sure it is not an obstacle.


Again though...make sure the bike works and goes around corners properly before making it into a tarts handbag.

No point having a bike that looks good that rides like a bag of shit!

Welcome to the site too btw...

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:58 am
by Saltychips
Yeah that's the main problem. I could see it working but how high/low would they need to be mounted etc. Also. Thank you for the welcoming.

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:41 am
by CRM
CMSMJ1 wrote: No point having a bike that looks good
Debatable - i never took to the aircraft carrier launch pad look lol. and makes the bike worth about a quid when you come to sell it on.
:o

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:46 am
by Drunkn Munky
^ yep it would look rubbish if you ask me, SP1 pipes run inline with the standard tail section and the tyga seat unit points up at the sky.

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:50 am
by Saltychips
Well... Fuck. Guess i'll have to deal with a single exhaust :( I don't like twin stack style exhausts either. And I would get a Tyga maggot if it wasn't so bloody loud.

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:16 am
by CMSMJ1
CRM wrote:
CMSMJ1 wrote: No point having a bike that looks good
Debatable - i never took to the aircraft carrier launch pad look lol. and makes the bike worth about a quid when you come to sell it on.
:o

Whoa!! I don't mean to say that a pointy tyga tail looks good, or that SP style pipes will look good with it..

Oh no...

My point is that instead of spending the best part of a grand on something "you" think would make it look good....to spend that money making it actually work.

Perfect suspension, brakes, carb setup and what not.

IMO a Tyga pointy tail does not suit the bike. Not sure why people thought that it would...

To each their own!

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:53 am
by tygapaul
I like the pointed tail

Re: Soon to be new RVF400 owner looking for some help.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:46 pm
by CMSMJ1
I know you would Paul..be strange otherwise. I prefer your RC45 version.

The other thing..is that some of the installations are not quite as good as they could be and it is a bit barryboy.