A bit like my Mrs then.
How can you disconnect the cat? You would have to remove the whole exhaust box under the engine and run open pipes!
Wouldn't i be able to disconnect at the slip joint and then have piping fabricated from there back?
Yes, but there is also the joint from the rear cylinder that goes into that box too. I would imagine that someone will eventually come out with a 2 pipes in and two pipes out box that will replace the present box under the engine.
Thats where the akra race connects, the horizontal cylinders pipe stays on the bike with the akra race. Yes you can do it. Problem is though, and I mean this, the ducati upmap key / dongle is required to disable the butterfly valve motor. I tried the installation without upmapping the fuel maps but they couldn't disable the valve without doing the maps. The dongle is programmed to execute a number of commands. You may be able to get the upmap key online for $200 or so. It can only be done in line with the tekla system which ducati use as their DDS.
is it any louder? i feel like the stock exhaust is just way too quiet. im trying to get some more sound out of it until i either have a full exhaust built, or someone comes out with something that replaces the entire box under the engine... I'm thinking that this winter I'll have a full exhaust system fab'd up if nothing comes out. I guess I'll just have to find a place that can re-map things after that.
How do you know that? Have you seen a cut open exhaust box? Please tell us where this information comes from.
You think a butterfly valve is doing it?
Maybe further up before the cat then, Fred? Have you noticed all the packing in the pipe after the cat, Fred? None? I wonder where the sound is being damped down from, deductively thinking without having a book to show you exactly Fred, its what we have got.
Holy sh!t 132db's
Where else would it be damped down? The valve is emissions, there isnt any glass packing in the short pipe, and there is nothing prior to the cat that could do it, right?
