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Fairweather

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  1. update: after 2 and a half hours of struggling with rusty nuts and bolts in -5C, losing tools, and calling in my roommate to help hold some stuff I finally got the front pipe on ... the yamaha dealer I had previously gone to gave me the wrong size of exhaust gasket for the rear pipe so I couldn't put it on tonight. Getting that front pipe on was a challenge that's for sure sheeeesh


    edit - update #2: took a trip to the yamaha dealer today and got the right gasket, the rear pipe went on in under 5 minutes it was so easy and straight forward. I think it's a little too cold to get started right now so I couldn't get it running to sample the new sound :(


    here's it completed


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  2. God I miss this. Perhaps I will get a WRX someday again after my lease is up. Unfortunately this was a friggin steal when I found it at one year used, and now they are all but non-existent used within 50 miles. I got lucky on the car and price and went ahead and sold it like an idiot :(

     

    sexy

  3. started playing cs back when i was 14ish I think so in my early teenage wisdom I thought it would be cool to make my name the same as my favorite band at the time

     

     

    also pecklez will always be known to me as pickles

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  4. MAC pipes have been ordered and are in the mail (was on back order and now shipping from the states so waiting a few more weeks). Sales guy I talked to recommended the rejet but said it wasn't super necessary. I just have to get my hands on some new exhaust gaskets from a momo store and I should be good to go. I'll let you guys know how it goes in a few weeks when I get them on

  5. Depends on how radical the pipes are, USUALLY you are ok, unless it's a high performance exhaust. They should have tech support that can answer that question for sure before you buy.

     

    It's not fuel injected is it?

     

    nope carb

  6. So I plan on purchasing some custom pipes for my vstar 650 (it currently sounds like a lawn mower with the stock pipes lol). Has anybody had any personal experience with

     

    1) MAC custom exhausts (price wise very attractive but I hadn't heard of the company up till a week ago)

    2) Self installation (Is it doable for a not very mechanically inclined person or should I bring it to a shop to have it done)

  7. I think it's not that much.

     

    Nah it's not too much , I had been hunting for a few months and this was by far a great deal considering what used v-stars are going for so I just couldn't turn it down.. the thing is I'm in my 8th year of post secondary with no job and a 160K debt load hahaha needless to say my student loan kind of paid for it

     

    Congrats on the new bike! Drive safe :)

     

    Thanks!

  8. Well I spent non existent money on something I don't really need ... too late to change it now, whatever, here's my "new" baby

     

    05 vstar 650 with 30Km

     

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