1000 exhaust on an 850

[jsandidge]

My search skills must be lacking, I haven't found much on this subject. I have read that the 850 and 1000 have the same exhaust port size and spacing, but the bolt spacing is different. Has anyone here done a swap? It seems that slotting the collars would be involved. Anyone have pics of that?

[Steve]

Don't have any pictures, but I can tell you what I did.

I had a set of 1000 pipes to replace some damaged pipes on my 850 and found that the studs were a bit farther apart on the 1000, so the holes on the 850 collars would have to be slotted, as you mentioned. Before I got started on that, Dogma called me for some help. He had a set of 850 pipes that he had gotten to replace the pipes on his 1000 and found the same thing. We swapped pipes. Since we live just a few miles away from each other, it was an easy thing to do.

Somehow, I doubt you might get that lucky, but it's worth a try.

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[jsandidge]

Now that was some good luck. And great timing too.