{"id":643,"date":"2010-05-09T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=643"},"modified":"2022-10-06T08:54:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:54:27","slug":"shhhh-be-vewy-vewy-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/shhhh-be-vewy-vewy-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhhh… be vewy vewy quiet…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…but I’m not hunting wabbit \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Another club event is coming up, the Mini Pine<\/a>… and as it’s a club event that means there will be a sound test before you can begin. They take the “Less Sound = More Ground” message seriously, as should anyone who wants to continue to ride a dirtbike\/ATV anywhere near civilization.<\/p>\n

Last year at the Northumberland event<\/a> I clocked in a little high, I think 95 or 96db (and they’re looking for 94 or lower) but they let me ride anyways. This year to see if I can hit 94 I repacked my muffler before the event. It’s also good to know if new packing will actually help or not… or if the exhaust I bought is destined to be 95+.<\/p>\n

I forgot I ordered a repack kit last fall, and ended up ordering a second one with some other parts a couple weeks ago. They’re both “generic 4-stroke” repack kits… but the White Bros kit (middle) is significantly smaller than Lexx kit<\/a> (bottom) and from what I can remember it’s more expensive too. You can see the dirty exhaust I just took off up top:<\/p>\n

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5 allen screws and a little percussive persuasion later… voila! (used packing up top, core and spark arrester in the middle, and cannister on the bottom)<\/p>\n

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Trimmed the Lexx kit down a little with scissors (it was about 6″ too long) and wound it up snug around the core, held in place with masking tape.<\/p>\n

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Then slide it back together with a little high-temp silicone between the end can and canister… done!<\/p>\n

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It’s just under a 100km ride to get to the Mini Pine next Sunday… so I should get my sound check as close to “new” as possible. It better be lower than last year! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…but I’m not hunting wabbit \ud83d\ude42 Another club event is coming up, the Mini Pine… and as it’s a club event that means there will be a sound test before you can begin. They take the “Less Sound = More Continue reading Shhhh… be vewy vewy quiet…<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-an","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}