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New
exhaust system
Tuesday June 12th...
Yesterday I swapped my "old" BSM 4-2-1 system for a Laser
ProfRace system.
I was actually planning to swap my steel system for a stainless
system and thought I had found one in the form of a Laser ProfRace
system. I even called the factory to make sure the complete system
was fabricated in stainless steel (or "INOX" as Laser
calls it).
But upon opening the box we discovered the headers are actually
chromed steel!
So again I called the Laser engineering department for an explanation.
It was explained to me that they don't do old systems in stainless
steel for "economical reasons".
Though I felt misleaded I still decided to bolt the system onto
my bike as I sold the BSM system a while ago and didn't want my
bike to stay immobilised for another few weeks.
But I was pleasantly surprised when I had fitted the system and
rolled it out of the garage to see how it looked from a distance.
I am very pleased with the result... the system runs much tighter
below the engine (no huge gap between collector and oil sump), it
also is very neatly tucked in below the footrest hangers and is
angled more upward so I had to shorten the exhaust hanger.
The muffler is also a lot shorter so it stays well away from the
rear. I thought the BSM looked good on my bike but now that I've
got the Laser... well, judge for yourself...!
btw. both BSM and Laser systems are made in
Holland.
Shown below is the old BSM Vampire 4-2-1...

...and this is the new Laser ProfRace 4-2-1

Update, July 22nd.
I took the bike to work, but soon discovered the bike wouldn't run
properly at all. Bral suggested trying what it'd do with the choke
open which I tried on the way back home and indeed it ran a lot
better so it needed a bit more fuel.
That night I mailed OldKawMan for some advice and this was his answer...
"just looking at the laser I can see it would
have a huge reduction in backpressure compaired to the BSM due to
the collector location and much shorter, and much larger diameter
exit pipe after the collector.
The BSM did not look like a true performance pipe, it was very long
after the collector, flow resistance is directly proportional to
the length of the pipe after the collector.
It is also proportional to 1/r where r is the pipe radius.
The primary pipe length before the collector will also change you
low and mid range torque curve, there is a big difference in those
pipes.
The BSM looks as it is designed for low-mid range.
You will need a larger main, throw a 140
or 145 in there and see what
happens."
I tried a 142 main jet, better at large throttle openings
but still ran bad at small throttle openings.
A few days later I took the bike to Ruud who had it dynoed.
You can see the result below, 5hp up from the BSM which totals 140hp.
Strangely they went back to a 132.5 main jet.
On the road I noticed that it doesn't respond as well in the lower
rev range as the BSM, which shows OldKawMan was spot on with his
diagnosis, but when the bike starts climbing trough the rev range
you can really feel the increased power... I don't notice any flatspot
between 4-5000rpm anymore and it just surges forward with the wind
pressure building up faster than ever! I wouldn't have thought that
5hp would make such a noticable difference.

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