You're flogging a dead horse with the MC28 exhausts! They will never perform as well as the MC18, or even the MC21 exhausts. There's more restriction in them than just the washers in the downpipes, and they weigh the proverbial ton too! While grinding the washers out will liberate a thousand RPM or two, it's quite frankly not worth the time and the effort. You will barely notice the difference, and the feeling you won't get as it gasps asthmatically to the redline, will be rather underwhelming. It's better to have a restricted one and an excuse for poor performance, than a half-heartedly tinkered with one that you hope will reward you for the modifications, but doesn't! The silencers are also hugely restrictive.

Quite simply, there is nothing standard on an MC28 conducive to performance. If you want it to look stock, then it's never going to perform much better than stock, I'm afraid.

As the old addage says, "performance costs". In the MC28's case it not only costs money, but it also costs a little in the aesthetics department too. If done properly and carefully though, there is no reason why you should "melt the fairing". Some pipes have narrower bodies than others, and are easier to fit inside the bodywork. For the most part though, they all perform pretty much the same, despite the different configurations. Not until you start trying to push into the high 60's~low 70's will race pipe choice really start to matter.

Quality-wise, you can't beat any of the stainless steel pipes out of Japan. Value-wise, you cannot beat TYGA's pipes, and they will perform equally as well as any Japanese pipe.
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