Scootering

PROJECT STREET SLEEPER: PART 8

Power hungry yoof

always used to be the guy chasing more bhp, it was my quest… I loved the challenge. Within tuning, the expansion chamber is king. It can tame a motor with peaky port timings and deliver a tonne of low-down torque, or it can allow the engine to sing-on at high revs, and reach its full potential. Box-pipes, however, are functional items, built to be robust, compact and effective… as emission and sound silencers. But over the years, as we look back

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