The exhaust can be shipped to your address. If there is engine tuning, it will need to come down to bangalore. I'm making plans to build an all-out street FZ with custom profile cam, bigbore, ignition, carb upgrade, redesigned cylinder head etc to showcase the potential of the FZ engine. The plan and stuffs are ready, I only need a bike now . Its got good potential and can be tuned to deliver very good gains and yet be super reliable.

Me too a prowd owner of RRTR 180 with Joel's FFE. I had the same exact problem with the fitting but got this done from a local mechanic who sought this out for me in 30 mins after adjusting the brake pedal and attaching a bracket to the mounting point of the exhaust and the footpeg.

Exact same performance levels of the exhaust, Loving every bit of it. Getting too much attention though . Just love to rev the engine. Infact ive been revving so hard in these last 3 days, that my tacho needle came off today. Posting few pics

Another customer of Joel here!!! I got his exhaust for the RTR 180...


When I initially contacted Joel about it, I was informed it would give a 10% bump... But then, I had my own reservations about an exhaust swap giving me such a gain... PM'd a few members who I knew had gone for it, and everyone seemed really happy with the product.. Did my own miniscule research on what a Free-flow means, what are its pros, cons, blah, blah etc...Then, Gave myself the green signal..


I sometimes turn Poser(as all of us do!) and I really wanted the Backfire Flame which shoots through the exhaust when dropping from high rpms.. I thought and still think it looks really really cool... It is massive show-off material I tell you ...


Personally, I had no problems with the sound.. Now that I own it, I like the bassy feel.. Am very sure the cops might not... But then, I m ready to live with that...(As I said... Poser!!!)


Anyway, I decided to go for it... It did take quite some time to arrive... When it did, I ran home from office to get the package and it is extremely light weight when compared to the stock exhaust.. (Trust me... I carried both for a couple of kilometres... I ll come to that later...) I even thought it looked cool... But then, that's my opinion... You can form yours..


Now comes a more troubling part... I took it to the A.S.S for the fitting... They too were quite enthu abt the exhaust... They were like "mileage drop hoga", "ye hoga", "kyon accha gaadi ka waat laga raha hai"... I did my showing off like "Its been built specifically for the RTR180 U no??" "This is MotoGP material U no??" and all that..


They tried to fit it and to my wild surprise, the flange near the engine head would not go in its slot... The mounting point of the exhaust and the footpeg bolt-hole were about 5 cms apart... The diameter between the Bolt holes in the Flange near the head were off by a couple of mms..


This kicked me up a fair bit and I immedietly called Joel... He seemed very surprised about it, probably the first case of non-fitting he s heard so far... He gave me suggestions on how to make it fit... a lil bit of lathe job... The ppl at the A.S.S seemed amused about at my misery and were sort of re-affirming their opinions about after-market products... Not what I needed at that time for sure!!


Me and my friend carried both the stock and the FFE for a kilometre to a lathe shop, instructed him on what to do and waited... Then we had to put in a plate between the Footpeg mount and the exhaust mount to hold the thing.. (as the holes were off by 5 cm).. Then, finally fitting it, we found that the exhaust was getting comfortable with the Swingarm, main stand and the rear brake hose.. Pushed and pulled on the exhaust here and there to get it away from conflicting touches and bolted it in place.. As of noe, it is bolted tight but its actually stressed, as it has been pulled down a bit.. (I really hope am able to get the point across!!)


The first fire-up was unbelievable... So freaking loud inside the garage, it got EVERYONE's attention...


Finally, after quite some work, it was ready... I asked the mech there to judge if any tune-up seemed necessary... He took it for a ride.. When he was back, he had this look on his face which immedietly told me my money was extremely well-spent.. He couldnt help spreading the word to everyone in the shop and now I was lined with prospective test riders... I am a poser, so I gladly entertained the requests...


Finally, waving everyone goodbye, I sent my friend home in an auto wid the old exhaust.. (No way he could have carried it on a bike!!)


Now, the anticipation!! Took the highway route home.. And man oh man, this is the part where I run out of words... It literally transformed the bike into a free-revving monster... I touched a 131 out of nowhere... It scared the shit out of me... (I aint a chicken... This was in the City!!) I was, and still am at a loss of words... A mere exhaust... Thats it U no??


To Joel:

Joel... Your product rocks... No two ways about it... True performance talking here... This aint any psychological gain we are talking about here... But, But...... Please talk to your fabricator... Something was messed up... The mountings were off not only at one single point... As I say, the exhaust kissed quite a few places... I m sure it must be one-off.... But, I was the unlucky one here... But man... You surely have a loyal and fully satisfied customer here... Am just in the process of arranging some cash for the big-bore and when I do get it done, I ll give you a call... (I am quite a fan now!!)

Thanks guys. Its nice when people get to really feel that 10% boost that I falsely claim when I'm approached . Thanks for your words man.

Whenever someone ask me which make is this exhaust, my replay is 'its tuned by a genius called Joel from ten10 racing team' but that is not enough.
Good luck.

& I hope i helped you kartik with my small inputs