This morning was just too good to pass it on. Had to roll out the Vmax - even though a couple parts are missing and others need to come off for powder coating.

Took the SLR with me and shot some 450 pics in just about 1h. Fresh air, the day after a little rain, just perfect.

I hope I was able to capture the moment. Here are a few shots of the VMax. Once I am done here I need to take her for a spin. ;-)

I am getting a lot of questions about which exhaust is the 'BEST' for the new VMax (2009++).

While in general it can get tricky to say which one is THE BEST, for the 2009/2010 VMax it seems to be pretty clear at this moment. Of the available contenders we had the chance to test the Stock System, our own member's (blueta71) designed X-Type Cat Eliminator which uses stock mufflers, the Akrapovic midpipe+mufflers and a 4-1 full system.

Naturally one would expect the best numbers coming from the full system.

Yesterday I finally had the chance to install the Akrapovic exhaust system for the 2009 VMax.

Installation was easy and painless and my first ride felt very good. Got too late in the afternoon to test the bike on the dyno. Will do that later today. 

Once I have the dyno results, I will post a detailed comparison of all the exhausts I have been able to test to-date. Should be interesting if the Akros will beat all of them.

Saturday was finally the day with decent temps and weather for some more dyno tests of the new VMax. We had to bikes here for testing. ynot1115 (Tony) was there with his VMax that we just installed the X-Pipe on for some re-baselining as we will be testing a few more X-pipe configurations over the next few weeks.

We also had some high profile guests at the shop that witnessed the tuning and our new record: Dale Walker and his chief fabricator stopped by with their own prototype (shhhh - I did not tell you ;-)) - they are taking their time to come up with something special.

Dale gave tons of good tips - not often that you have a pro look over your shoulders. Also brought a very special goody for the VMax so I can custom fit and install it on the bike ready for Drag Fest in October (see my prior blog post).

What a weekend! Should have been working on the site all weekend, but simply had to get away from the computer for a while.

I had planned for a while to build another alternative of a mid pipe in stainless, the most minimalist yet performance oriented design - similar to what Akro is going to bring onto the market - but with a few 'extras'.