sounds so much like a toy
 

I really like my bike but when I ride with my son and soninlaw yamaha Vstar's ...my GZ sounds so much like a toy.
Can I replace the end part of the exhaust (where the baffle is) and put an extension on to make it sound better? I am guessing I will have to reset the carbs?

If any of you know where I can get the extentions for my GZ250 please post the link or give me a general place on the web to go?
Keep up the great work guys! this board is super!
Ride safe! Thanks

Re: sounds so much like a toy
 

You simply can't make the GZ250 sound like a v-twin anything. Even debaffling the exhaust will only make the bike sound like a loud lawnmower. It's generally believed that anything you do to try to make a bike sound better will result in a poorer running bike. It's just not worth it. Ride the bike for what it is.

Re: sounds so much like a toy
 

I thought you had been browsing through the old posts.............guess you missed the ones about the muffler and sound. :roll:

The answer is NO, likely nothing you do will make it sound "better". Making it a lot louder is illegal and obnoxious (removing the muffler completely). It will never sound like a "big" bike.

The sound does change a bit after a few thousand miles; forgot what year/mileage yours is.

Except for the 16T front sprocket, most folks find that ANY tinkering with this little bike is an exercise in futility......and some don't even like that change either.

The best advice I can give you is: Ride it until the itch for a bigger, faster, louder bike becomes overwhelming and then trade it in. At that point, any radical changes you have made will cause it to be worth less; maybe MUCH less.

Others may disagree! :cool:

afraid you are wrong sir........Re: sounds so much like a to
 

the pipes are called Suzuki gn gz 250 Free Flow Pipes
Sounds really great to me in the video...

Watch and hear these babies!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dw76DyFyq0


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Re: sounds so much like a toy
 

:popcorn:

Re: sounds so much like a toy
 

Oooh boy...

Thanks Tex, you just took the heat off of me! (Put on your flame retardant gear, seek cover...)

:popcorn:

Re: afraid you are wrong sir........Re: sounds so much like a to
 

One more time: Those pipes are illegal in (at least) 48 states and, in my opinion, are obnoxious.
Taking a slightly different view, I think it is pathetic; a big bike wanna-be.

If you haven't figured it out already, loud pipes is a hot button issue for me.
Said my piece; I quit. :skull:

Re: sounds so much like a toy
 

Who is wrong and about what?
Or is that an invite for everyone in the thread to take a shot at you ???? :poke2:

Re: sounds so much like a toy
 

That's what txgent4you put in the subject header of his response to you and/or primal.

Re: sounds so much like a toy
 

First of all he didn't take anything off of you, because HE didn't say that the GZ wasn't a serious motorcycle and was a novelty item, he just said it sounded like a toy, which it sort of does, but I kind of like it that way, sorta stealthy so I can sneak up on, or away from the zombies.