The International CBX Owners Association

New SSP Factory polished titanium CBX exhaust 6 into 1
(no sound clip or availability yet in Webike Japan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0RGDDdP3bU

looks expensive!

Z900RS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCKiWAwC_Yk
with sound

https://japan.webike.net/brd/SSP+Factory/2409/

-Scott

SSP CB900F 1,114.29 ~ USD

more pics now available

Must not be able to bend titanium.

Dave

Appears very low to me.

I haven't seen a better fit of the down tubes that equal the stock Honda setup. Tucked up tight.

Header diameter looks quite big. Best power comes from small headers, Like the D&D 6-1.

Dave

Somebody's zebra is missing a coat.
This might be good for racing or just plain dumping good money into something useless. Not much else. Thanks, though, for the topic. This type of stuff is always fun to know.

And, yes, Dave, I think bending titanium is next to not possible -- quite brittle. Can be done; but, ...........

I do like the ZRX swingarm !

Guaranteed to scrape on right hand turns. The flat style collector is the least
efficient of all collector configurations although sometimes necessary when you
only have two tubes to collect. A 6-3-1 with triangulated primary collectors is
the ideal power wise arrangement but very difficult to tuck in without compromising
other power improving features the stock system has. Power range (low/midrange)
is nice but cornering clearance is a MUST. Weight saving comes in third.

Ah, yes. Most people focus on the max hp figure you get on a dyno, completely ignoring the torque spread that makes riding in the twisties so fun. Small head pipes (within reason) tend to make more usable torque.

Header pipe dia. is an important factor in where torque is delivered but there
are other factors that most always get ignored in aftermarket pipe design that
are just as important as collector design. Ironically one factor serves two other
purposes than power delivery. Where you locate the collector largely determines
the configuration of the rest of the system.

A lot of the CBX pipes produced over the last 15-20 years are now discontinued, and the market now seems to favor the stock OEM-style pipes. These SSP pipes might better suit the new retro Kawasaki Z900RS
-Scott

Anyone looked inside the stock header tube and noticed how small
the inner wall is ? (choked down).

Back in the day, (1977 ish), I hot rodded my CB750K2. Folks "in the know" told me it wouldn't make good power with my Hooker Headers 4-1 because the head pipe was too small. I needed to get something like the RCEngineering header. Funny thing though, a young guy named Byron Hines told me what pistons, cam, etc to get for good street riding and a nice power spread, using that header. I still have that bike.

If you build a pipe using the original stock header tube O.D. but single
wall (no inside tube), you are already considerably over size unless you
are using a big bore kit.
One of the other considerations that affects mid range power is header
tube length and finding the ideal length. Note the staggered symmetrical
lengths of the stock system. There's more to it than looks and convenient
routing.