just how bad is the stock 200x exhaust

[oldred95]

From a performance aspect how restrictive is it really? What is done to the trike now is listed in the sig and pretty soon I'm going to swap in an XR200 cam and carburetor. I can tell by the head pipe size alone that there is room for improvement but is it really THAT bad? Reason I ask I'm going to a swap meet next weekend and if its something I really need to upgrade then I'll keep my eyes peeled for a DG or Bassani.

[storm_impulse]

ya dg or bassani would be the best. i went from stock to cobra on my 85 200x and there is alil more ass but im blowing out alot of compression. u can stand 10ft away from my pipe and u will get hit with compression. the DG on ebay looks like it would be a good one but u better have some cash.

[SYKO]

must be pretty darn bad that 20 or so companies made BETTER exhuast for it!! lol, anything is better than stock

[oldred95]

I found a like new DG exhaust last winter at a swap meet and the guy wanted 125 or 150 for it, can't remember which. I thought that was outrageous considering the trike itself only cost me 150.


So the stock exhaust is that bad. It actually sounds pretty nice though but the rear baffle is all rotted out too.


My dads got some old exhaust laying around. One is a Bassani for a 200S which obviously won't fit, then another smaller and shorter megaphone style muffler (looks like a DG), and then one more I had grafted onto my 125 at one point but I have no idea what it fits. If all else fails I'm going to pull the exhaust off my 125 and bend the head pipe to fit the 200X. I don't know what the headpipe is for but it fit my 125 and it is significantly bigger then even the 200X head pipe, and then slide my choice of muffler onto that. Only real problem is bending the pipe.

[RedRider_AK]

DG sounds kinda rattly to my taste, a little too little packing. A good idea would be to get a universal can for a good exhaust (I think White Bros. still makes theirs) and graft it onto either a the stock headpipe or to a chopped off DG headpipe.

[oldred95]

Say I found a used muffler. Whats the best packing material that will absorb the most sound? I would really like to use the little megaphone style muffler since it should give the deepest tone but I don't want it so loud it annoys me. I was thinking maybe some pink panther insulation? Seen it used in a propane fueled forge this old timer had and it never even charred the insulation.

[RedRider_AK]

Any fiberglass insulation will work. The tighter you pack it, the more noisy it will be.