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Mikep
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 01:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

If CATs are needed to meet emissions then CATs are going to end up on our motorcycles. Period. No big deal. They work, so that is what happens.

mikeyp
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Battleblue03
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 03:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I want to say the requirements are 2006 and 2008. It comes in two stages, basicly we get cali requirements in 2006 and cali gets new ones then in 2008 the rest of the nation gets calis requirments again.i am pretty sure our time line is 2006 and 2008 but i could be one year ahead on both years because we need time to get our product up and runnning.
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Glitch
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 03:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

CATs are going to end up on our motorcycles.
If I'm no mistaken Kawasaki already has them in place of having a muffler. On some of their bikes anyway.
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BadS1
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 03:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The Buells are EPA legal as of right now through 2006 but there real close and will succeed without a cat for 2008.
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Unibear12r
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 05:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Glitch Kaw does show small cats in their cutaways for some current Cali models.
I've read published statements by two different people at Buell saying they will meet Cali 2008 without a cat.( For whatever thats worth).
I've heard (RUMOR) that CARB is considering requiring M/Cs to start doing the every two year smog testing then just like they do cars now. If so that will create a lot of fallout among the riders, retailers and makers.
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R1DynaSquid
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 05:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I dont get the attitude against cats? You have at least one on your car or truck & its not bothering you. hell I have one on my R1 & I could care less. Creates a little extra heat but it feels great on a cool night.
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Bomber
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 05:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

xtra weight, xtra complexity, heat, nuther service part to be replaced eventually

boiled down to "change is bad, I fear change," or to quote my kid, "change is good, you go first"
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Glitch
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 05:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"change is good, you go first"
Jonathan told me "It's not that you're not cool, it's just not cool to be seen with you"
Kids!

The Z1000 that has that funky four barrel exhaust is HEAVY! A friend of mine that just replaced it with one of those Ti deals tried cutting it up to see why it was so heavy. It was a honeycomb inside. My guess it was a cat.
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Bomber
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 05:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

kids are, er, uh, ehem, what they are, alright!

we'll all have cats, eventually, and they won't be awful, but when I see some of the lower-hanging fruit the epa COULD go after, I kinda wonder why they're coming after scoots . . . .

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R1DynaSquid
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 05:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

xtra weight, xtra complexity, heat, nuther service part to be replaced eventually

asside from the heat I dont see the others as being of any consequence. Weight? Its honeycomb in a pipe. Complexity? See weight response. Part to be replaced....uhhh you own a Buell, replacing parts is part of the ritual.

Besides that I think a cat will outlive the engine by a huge margin. remember Cats have 9 lives: D
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Glitch
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 06:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

we'll all have cats
Only if ya buy a new bike.
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Tbs_stunta
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 06:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Problem with cats is that they're only clean on longer trips after they've heated up. For short trips they're actually quite dirty.
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Starter
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 06:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Buell hasn't had to introduce a second air system yet so I would think that would come before catylitic converters.
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Krassh
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 06:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yamaha used a cat on there GTS1000 way back in 1993.
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Outrider
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 07:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Harley's have Cats in California and Buell doesn't. Superior engine? Could be. Any other ideas?
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Charlieboy6649
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 08:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That honeycomb you speak of breaks down and clogs airflow. I know. I've seen the one out of my Saturn! Engine performance got crappy before diagnosis. Who knows how long it had been that way?

Cats suck! Any questions? The point is Moo LOL! It's coming anyway. Just do what I do. Run straight headers until smog time... Then hook it up again.
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420at145mph
Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 08:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

i think bubba said it best
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Outrider
Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 11:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Guys...Please don't confuse CARB and EPA requirements and dates. EPA is usually two years or more behind the California Air Resources Board.

Per Erik at the Buell 20th anniversary in his presentation on the XB12's he stated that they passed EPA 2006 and were extremely close to passing CARB 2008 requirements which should be EPA 2010 standards. Perhaps Buell has refined the system to meet CARB 2008 since then.

Compliments of the aftermarket, we don't have a thing to worry about until the States decide to smog and noise test motorcycles. Then the burden remains with both the manufacturers and aftermarket to provide us with legal mods that will maintain/increase the power of our bikes.
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