I bought a Raptor (04) a few months ago and now want to add an exhaust, but I'm having a hard time to decide which one's to buy.
The few that I have considered are the -Yoshimura (Rs-3) full-comp exhaust system, kinda pricey
-White Bro's E-Series,
-Pro-Circuit TI-4 and the
-LRD Pro 4.
I am also going to buy a K&N filter and jet kit. Should I buy the head's to go with the exhaust or will I have enough power with these alone. This is the only thing that I am doing to my Raptor the rest I will leave stock. Please help me decide. I love to ride trails, but really love to ride on the tracks and hit jumps and stuff. I want a system that will give me alot of off the throttle speed and power throughout the power band. If I can't have my cake and eat it to, Please tell me what I can have.
Oh yeah, it has definitly got to be LOUD!!! LOUD!!! LOUD!!! I live in Hawaii and the noise level here isn't really a factor. I think.

P.S I'm kinda leaning towards the LRDPro 4, What do you think?


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Well, That yoshi is rele nice but like you said it is pricey. It is loud though i can tell you that. You should reallly look into the HMF. You can get it powder coated to match your quad. It gives you great power increases AND it one of the louder exhuasts you can buy. So i would really look into that. Plus it a good price. Check out www.Sweetquads.com, they have it there and you can get a good price. GL with it.

 

Go to the sweetquads forum on this site. Tom will hook you up.

 

I have a Yoshi, it's loud and provides you with more power to manage. Though I will mention that their is always Sparks and CT to bump into, these would IMO give you the better power, they are both loud but also costy. HMF is good but it doesn't offer the same power as a these three I listed, it's up to you, if you have a fat wallet go for one of these three. Also, if you are getting a K&N, take a look at the Pro-Design intake, you have to do some easy drilling and some modifications to your airbox but I say it's worth it.

 

If you want LOUD LOUD LOUD go with ALBA, i am running the stage three pipe and I am very satisfied......

 

Pick performace over loud and annoying

 

Hey thanx guy's for the input. What about the CT Sonic. I just saw the the DirtWheels 2002 april edition of the Raptor Pipe Shootout and found that the CT Sonic took that Test, although that was almost 3 years ago. Wondering how the LRD stands up to the CT, because they didnt have a spark arrestor then and wasn't included in the test.

 

well, all opinions hear, but i have a HMF exhaust and think it is definetely more powerful(gains) than my friend who had a yoshi, it is bery loud tho coming in at 105db, as aposed to 100 of yoshi. the others are around 102db. it is very cheap also at a lil over 400 for a full system, or 195 for a slip on. i love it and thought the power gains were amazing, but any stock to piped raptor seems like a ton of power gained. just my opinion but i would steer you in HMF's direction.

 

HMF def does not gain you more then a yoshi, White bro, T4, CT, etc... bro

 

hey, how is it that you know that for a fact? seems like you dont have a raptor? it definetely feels more lowend grunty that the yoshi. ill try to find the specs for you crunchtime of the dyno runs