Fitted the r77 today with a bit of a sore head after having a skin full last night. Anyway, it's a fiddly affair and took me a good 3 hours. People have gone about fitting it different ways so after taking in some useful tips (thanks guys!) I set to work by first taking off the springs and copper greasing the link pipe to move it around a bit easier. Off came the 02 sensor and servo motor cable was disconnected and wound it back. Old pipe came off pretty easily. I first fitted the lower heat shield bracket then offered up the heat shield itself so I could get a good idea exactly where it would sit. Next I put on the higher heat shield bracket that attaches to the bottom fairing bolt. I put the new system on and positioned it with the heat shield in mind as I know most have had a nightmare lining the heat shield up after fitting the system. It's a faff making minor adjustments to make the shield line up. Tightened it all up. 02 sensor refitted (winding it back 3 times so it ain't twisted once tightened). Happy with the end result then came the sound check! WOW. The difference is incredible. Doesn't hunt nearly as much as I thought it would with baffle and isn't too loud with baffle out so it will be staying out. Had a half blast and bloody love it! Thoroughly recommend the yoshi. It's a pain in the ass to fit but worth it. The only very slight concern is the very bottom of the carbon can itself sits 1-2 mm from link pipe pictured. Hopefully it won't burn or melt the bottom of the can. Anyone else had this? [/URL][/IMG][/URL][/IMG][/URL][/IMG]
The pipe isn't aligned properly ... You will burn the carbon like that. I can take a picture if helps.
Indeed you must have spent hours doing this as you described ') I mangeed to fit the whole element without taking off anything: 1. heat shield bracket first, 2. can and 'S' pipe (all together), 3. heat shield. Initially it seems that there is not much room to maneuvre, but in fact you can align all propely. The real challenge was to fit the adjustable rear sets... grrrrr it took me much longer than fitting the end-can itself.
It's probably the last time I attempt to fit anything myself Peter! I just can't be trusted. I woke up this morning aching like I'd ran the London marathon as I was laying on the floor in the garage all day fetling! I didn't go in to work today probably the stress of yesterday! Well...... that and I wanted to continue to fettle. All on now. It's a very tight fit and clearance from swing arm and bottom of exhaust to link pipe are very close indeed but not touching!
mine came from America today and is fitted now, wasn't that bad abut fiddly like you said. My metal trim was the worst part & im still not sure of its fitment now, it's touching the exhaust and no matter what I do I can't get it to sit out abit. Haven't heard the exhaust yet as its late now, can't wait until tomorrow
Looks good. I changed the shock on mine on Wednesday which entailed me removing the Yoshi (again) as the dog bone would not go low enough to extract the shock. It's getting easy now!
Thank you, how does your heat sheild fit? I can't get mine to move away from the exhaust. I'll have another crack tomorrow I think.
It can't move from the exhaust as it's fitted to the link pipe. If you leave the springs off and then loosely fit the trim you can twist the pipe to move the end can and trim plate. Once in the right place, just take out the bolts and refit the springs and tighten the clamp.
What a brilliant sound! I don't think it's too loud to be honest. It's a bloody tight fit all round but looks the bollox. Does the bottom of your yoshi can sit very close to your link pipe?
Your right sounds and looks amazing, cars actually move out the way in traffic for me now which they didn't tend to do with old pipe on. Yep can sits close to pipe, it's all very compact down there.
