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2010 Honda Fury Project II - Cobra Pipes
| | | We were pumped with the results from the first round of upgrades on our Honda Fury project bike. Who wouldn’t like 4.86 lb-ft of torque and 10.24 more horsepower to uncork? With our AFT Customs High Performance Cam and Piston Kit and our Roger Goldammer G Force Smooth Air Filter in place, it was time for the next piece to the performance puzzle. Cobra Engineering Inc. stepped up with a set of its Speedster Swept Swept exhaust ($689.95) and a Fi2000R ($234.95) fuel management system to ensure that our pipes are running lean and clean.
Taking stock of inventory, the kit for the Cobra Speedsters comes with a front headpipe and heatshield, a combo rear headpipe and muffler with a heatshield, a mounting bracket, one headpipe flange, eight hose clamps of assorted sizes, two big hex bolts for the mounting bracket and a couple of smaller hex flange bolts and nuts. You’ll need to save the stock acorn nuts when you pull the OEM pipes off, but otherwise Cobra has provided everything you’ll need for a quick install.
One word to the wise. The first step in the instruction manual says to remove the stock system and the stock exhaust mount. I just glanced at the directions then removed the pipes first before realizing the stock mount needed to come off, too. So don’t be a dummy like me and add extra work. Removing the OEM pipe and exhaust mount separately did bring to light how heavy the stock mount is. I’d say the Cobra exhaust mount bracket is a couple pounds lighter, easy.
One of the first thing's to do when installing Cobra's Speedsters is to remove the stock pipes from the cylinders.
With the old pipes and mounting bracket removed and the four acorn nuts from the stock headpipes safely stored, the first step is to replace the old bracket. The Cobra mounting bracket lines up perfectly with the stock mounting holes, so it’s just a matter of threading the M10 X 70mm bolt into the top and the M10 X 45mm bolt into the bottom. Threading the bottom bolt into the nut can be a little tricky because the space is tight and it’s difficult to grip it flush from behind. But you don’t have to torque the bolts down just yet, so at this point all you have to do is get it | |