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im looking for a little bit of diy project and was thinking about making a cut down stubby can from an old dented/damaged one. I'm sure it's not going to be as easy as cut>rivet>done. so was wondering if anyone else has had a go at making one?

and in an entirely related search, has anyone got an old damaged/knackered race can that they wouldn't mind parting with for a few beer tokens

cheers

http://www.banditforum.co.uk/forum/inde ... g74235#new

Guide I did last year

thats a mint guide, cheers mate. Looks fairly achievable too

right, whos got a damaged can kicking around in the shed?

No worries. It pretty much is as easy as cut, rivet, done

So has anyone got a spare roughed up can that they could part with, its for 3-bolt fitting for a triumph speed four. But any finish/fixing im sure i can work around. Max budget would be about £15-20 as its going for mate and im poor would be massively appreciated

I brought a stubby scorpion end can for my GSXR600K3 and that is LOAD

My mate cut down some other can himself and it just sound rattely to me

I would say by the gen once

well thats choice

Thanks col, but theres no moving parts, its likely the fact my bikes a 1998 and has 70k+ miles on it, its still louder than yours and cost me nothing as it was the original can. HA!

From what I was told there were a dozen people egging mel to run it on the DYNO at the V&J open day, and how many people asked for your bike to get on show??

Depends what can you're doing it on mate. I did it on a beowulf and I thought i'd be straight forward but had to get the inside all welded up, parts ground off etc to get it to fit back together! But, the riveting was proper neat and it looked and sounded awsome!

its a piece of piss, to do, done loads, only thing I will say is that if its a round can your doing, PLEASE take the time to make sure that you redrill and rivet the new ones "longitudinally" <my made up word for the day, in line with the originals.

nothing worse than a neatly chopped down can but the rivets arent in line, drives me up the wall when I see it on bikes