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December 8, 2006: The Hayabusa muffler arrived yesterday.
It's a neat piece. I hope it'll work well without being restrictive. According to the information stamped on the side, it will keep a 'Busa down to 80 dB. Well, it and a friend for the other two cylinders. It has a nice big 2.5" inlet but the actual pipe that goes into said inlet is actually only 1.5" ID. Boo! That's not a big problem, I can easily enough use just the flange and make it work nicely. I'm going to keep my eyes open for a single aftermarket unit as well. You'd think that guys would be throwing these bikes down the road with some regularity and so there would be scratched and orphaned mufflers around, but I haven't found them yet. No worries, I'll do the fitting with this one. Imagine, I might be able to have different mufflers that simply bolt on for different noise levels. That would be cool. As well as my "SuperTipp" setup works, I'd be happy to lose it.

Of course, right after I received this, I discovered that a Triumph Daytona uses a single can - and the Daytona 955 made 147 hp. So maybe I should have bought one of those. Hmm...

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