First power and mega bomb and then everyone jumped on. Now it looks like Dungeys new bike has a 4st expansion chamber. Interesting.
Must be a one cylinder thing to dampen the pulse and minimize reversion... at least that's all I can imagine it does.
PAH !!! That design has been around for years, The chinese developed it in their search for MX /Enduro domination but at the time couldnt afford to pay a top rider to ride the bikes LOL
There is no patent on a FMF mega bomb, never was one, in fact they stole that design from someone else. FMF claims a patent on the power bomb(2005), but they could not patent it until Akropovic's patent ran out after 20 years. Akro still makes the best resonators, tube on top of tube design.
I fully agree with the Akropovic's design as being the best. But the price for any brand's full system is ridiculous. I have a very similar set of resonators right before the rear mufflers on an HKS Dual SS Exhaust system on a Nissan 350Z. It was mirror polished SS, Tig welded, Probably 30+ times more material and work to fabricate and it costs less than a full Titanium single 4 stroke system for a big bore bike made by Akropovic. Explain why that is and we would all be happy. Everybody steals things from each other in the motorcycle marketplace but FMFs design is something they have further developed from the original Powerbomb design and they still have everyone and themselves raving about it. There's not much to it really, it is very simple. {See picture below of it's internals.} We already know about FMF falling out of favor with you for whatever reason and I'm sure you have your own reasons. So I won't argue with you on that. They are all way overpriced for what you get and for the cost of material to build such a system, regardless of what alloy is used SS, Titanium, etc. or who manufactured it..
Sounds like someone is playing with words again ... Like that play on the word synthetic in the oil world ... I'm not sure we have that oil thing hashed out just-right, yet...
Yeah...they ripped off that Heimentwatz guy. Regardless of what you call 'em, the one on my 310 seems to help the low and mid-range a lot.
It's because they fund tons of race teams and not just fast and furious magazine for exposure Really though, all these motorcycle exhaust companies need to not only have the racers but also advertise like crazy. They are priced stupid high for the willing though
It emulates a longer header pipe to help scavenging at low rpm. It does not affect top end power. Thats my opinion anyways.
fmf is out of favor because its unnecessarily loud. I got my slip on for 175$ so I am DEFINITELY not complaining, but man is it one loud mother....
My Q4 with PowerBomb is not any louder than stock. In fact, I was hoping for a bit more raspy exhaust note that did not materialize.
