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Mindis V7-850 Mods

More shenanigans... I noticed that my rear brake caliper's bleeding screw had a little mist of brake fluid around the threads. I already tightened it probably more than I should but it was still getting moist, so on my lathe I turned a special crush washer from copper. Annealed it, put it in, blead the brakes, problem solved!





I mentioned earlier that I will do a cut-out system for my exhaust. It is as loud as my ex on a good day. I like loud pipes but at 160km/h it's a bit too much... Before I commit to modify my exhaust, I thought I'll try a DB killers first. Found the right diameter, pressed them in , and put few tack welds on:





People on Amazon reviews said that they reduce low end noise, some said that they reduce a lot of noise, but they obviously don't have an Irish ex and don't know squat what noise is... After a ride today it looks to me that they do nothing. Maybe a tiny wee bit helpful, but maybe it's just my butt-dyno wants to see that as a placebo effect
 
DeadEye said:
That second set doesn’t look bad at all .
Good job !

Um, I would be ‘afraid’ of that copper cap getting stuck in the bleeder hole 😥
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This is actually a second version of it that works. From me fiddling with rear brakes constantly before, bleeder screw had little indent rings. I polished them off and after that brake fluid mist started to appear around the threads. I guess the angle of the pointy tip became not an exact match to the hole after polishing. I made a coper washer to suit but it didn't work coz it was very thin. This one works the charm. Even if it will get stuck in there, brake fluid has no problem going around it when bleeding brakes. I blead my rear brakes yesterday again after triggering ABS few times just to make sure there's no air in ABS system, that crush washer/cone didn't complain :)
 
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