In a nutshell, surprisingly enough afternarket cans do not get hot at all!, because there are no cat converters, and no clusters of restrictions inside the can therefore the exhaust gases do not stay long enough in the can for these to get hot, trust me, I couldn't believe it myself when I first fit a set of Carbon Can Co. Stainless Steel to my XTX. After market cans are a simple straight through tube the hot air gets out of it pretty quick.

Yep as Captamoto said a performance exhaust has no restrictions therefore the hot gases from the engine just get pushed right out and have little time to heat up the exhaust. I had an XTR for near 4 years and 40k miles, most with a set of CCC full length, round S/S cans on and yes the exhaust header/tubing still gets hot but the can itself even after some of the most brain out riding (i get the red mist every now and then) i would still touch them, ok maybe for about 30secs before you hand gets too warm but with an air flow the person legs will not get cooked like on other bikes/standard cans

Spen � Please let me know what price the Akrs�s are, also be interested to know what you think of the new cans when you get them, BTW why did you go for carbon ends? Just a style preference?

The only reason i went for MTC was the price ,and the carbon ends were just to make it a bit different ,i can get the Akras for �600 the MTC cans were �350 ish

The Akro's are the only cans I know that have cracked at the join at the link pipe/can & we have seen a few that have done this over the years.

Pipes offer little gains in HP on the XT the air box is where most of the HP & torque is hidden.

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MTC customer service is first class, if you have any problems they get it sorted, and quick. If your in the UK, why buy anything else ?

I have Kevs mod and DNA filter ,when i get the cans on i"ll post on all of them ,All i can say is the service so far has been great and a big improvement in Torque , i don"t rev the nuts of my bike and like to keep it in the middle of the rev range this is where i have noticed the biggest improvement ,Will be interesting to see what differance the cans make and bin the Cat on the original ones :bounce016:

I have the Kev fuel mod, K&N filter + stage 2 DNA filter, so will be very interested to know how the bike performs & sounds (not to loud I hope) with the MTC exhausts. Are MTC exhaust loud ???

Not sure what, if any, other mod�s can be done to gain more power? I certainly don�t think a PCV is worth the extra money over the Kev fuel mod, and the cost of a stage 3 airbox is way too expensive. So I think a set of pipes is the last item on my performance upgrade list.

Certainly from what I�m hearing and previous experiences of other manufactures MTC seems the way to go. I�ll wait to hear results from �Spen� and maybe get a quote from �CaptMoto� for a new set of MTC�s.

you might find a set on you tube ,there are a few videos of Teneres on there

I run mine with Akra pipes 1 and 2 filter,tried Kevs mod and with some tinkering with the ajustment worked really well,the original plan was to buy a 690smc,but after deciding against bought a PC3,it had a map in it but really needs maping on a dyno,the biggest difference I found was the surging stopped with PC3,but performance wise may be a tad better but I wouldn,t want to live on the difference,save your money unless you can get one cheap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX4cIZDjPFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHV_u...eature=related

just a few of the better type ones