{"id":624,"date":"2010-09-19T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2012-06-03T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:36:22","slug":"titanium-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2010\/09\/titanium-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanium Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long journey, and although not over, the remaining important bits are finally seeing closure. Namely, the exhaust. I’ve been waiting out to buy a used one from someone who said he was out of town, but would be back soon to remove and ship it to me. That ended up just being a huge waste of time. After many weeks, I said forget it. I decided to buy new and luckily was able to source this full titanium system from TiForce.<\/p>\n

When it arrived, the package gave me a bit of a scare because it wasn’t very big or heavy, but all the pipes were just in segments so they boxed up well.<\/p>\n

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Headers installed:<\/p>\n

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4-2 Collector:<\/p>\n

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Tail pipe:<\/p>\n

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The muffler actually comes out at an angle to decrease the severity of the bends:<\/p>\n

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Overall the exhaust fit well and had excellent welds and construction. There is significant weight loss by going with this system over the boat-anchor stock one.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t quite finished with titanium goodness just yet, because another package arrived containing some Pro Bolts. The ATE SuperBlue brake fluid was also received, so I could now get the brakes filled and bled.<\/p>\n

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I went with titanium windscreen and front axle bolts, plus rear sprocket and rear axle nuts. I also put the rear wheel back on and fitted the Akrapovic carbon fiber rear fender. The DID ERV3 520 Chain was previously installed around this time as well. Here is a left side view of the rear end’s situation, along with the Renthal 44t rear sprocket.<\/p>\n

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A close-up of the Gilles chain tensioner… a very trick part and allows for easy adjustments with a cam gear drive.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a picture of the front brake reservoir with the tygon tubing after bleeding everything.<\/p>\n

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For the rear brake’s reservoir, I decided to use a slightly unconventional approach by omitting an actual reservoir. I simplified it by just using a length of tygon tubing as the reservoir, capped with a brass fitting with a barbed end.<\/p>\n

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The brake rearset is missing the heel guard in the above picture, because I decided spraying it with bumper coating wasn’t going to suffice. It seemed like a contact area like that would cause the paint to rub off easily, so I sent it in to get properly powder coated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long journey, and although not over, the remaining important bits are finally seeing closure. Namely, the exhaust. I’ve been waiting out to buy a used one from someone who said he was out of town, but would be back soon to remove and ship it to me. That ended up just being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}