does a silencer really work on a cag

i am buying a cag and i was wondering if i should buy a silencer but i dont want to if it doesnt do anything does it?

It works..try searching "Silencer"

is it much quieter or little aslo i heard if you put steel wool...

buy a silencer from where?
all pipes have a silencer already on them.
can you link me to the silencer your talking about??

Yea, i've never heard one without a silencer because most come with pipes, but yea are you talking about the one from ddm? cause i have no idea about all that, but yea if you pack it with steel wool it's a big help i guess

Far as I know, all Cags come with stock silencers already mounted on the exhaust pipe. Both of mine did, although I did the spraycan mod on one of them - check my signature for a link to my thread, and pictures of the spraycan on my bike. Can you give us a link or a picture of the silencer you're talking about?

for the purpose of silencing the exhaust....steel wool will work~! but there won't be a huge difference, the fact is 2 stroke engine is always loud~!

I just took off the 2 cans on my exhaust and there is no silecing materal.Also should the pipe not have holes drilled in them where the cans slip over?Mine do not.If so how big and how many and where

No packing in the muffler? That sounds familiar ...... several guys have gotten brand-new factory bikes, and they also came with no packing. Get some steel wool and put it inside the muffler. The holes in the pipe help deaden the exhaust sound by pushing it out into the packing instead of out the end of the pipe. Where? All over .... just don't drill so many that it sacrifices the structural integrity of the pipe (as in make it weaker).

Thanks my bike is only a couple months old and I wasn't surprised at no packing but was that the pipe was not drilled.My neighbour had an old pipe so I drill the holes like his.There are 6 ,1/4" holes on each pipe,offset about every 3rd of the way around.It sounds better now.I used some pipe packing he had for his dirt bike.Think steel wool is better?

pipe packing is better, but steel wool is cheaper, so thats why everyone uses steel wool

hi im a little new but i found out a small mod for my cag... i bought it from someone that had it for six years...well then... the silencer on my cag was welded on...so i took a pepsi can played around with it and cut a hole on the bottom big enough for the pea shooter exhaust but tight enough for it to stay on...the top i used a can opener (manual one) and took the top off and cut 4 slits on it...like a square 1 in each corner only there are no corners...if u want more info just replly me back ill be posting some pictures soon

u got a pepsi can hanging off your exhaust? lol show the pics

it is just called a spray can mod. You can use whatever can that you like. See the avatar picture from SpyGuy, he has one on.

Typically fiberglass is used for sound reduction in mufflers i.e. 'glass packs' The kind they use is a bit pricier then the standard house type insulation. I have a Supertrap on one of my vintage motorcycles that uses fiberglass. You would need to pack the fiberglass TIGHTLY around something like a screen tube to keep it intact. Most commercial mufflers use some type of pressed steel tube with louvers press cut in.

Rick

Yup got a pepsi can exhaust... i tried an AriZona iced tea can but i forgot the steel wool in the can and tried to drill some holes in the can...and it tore it up but its ok ill get a new one... only 99c i wanted to use AriZona iced tea because its longer as a silencer and wider

check out my pix if links don't work

http://www.pocketbikeplanet.com/mini...mageuser=46086

http://www.pocketbikeplanet.com/mini...mageuser=46086

im looking to kinda silencing my bike too.
so "pipe packing" will make a bike quiter then steel woul?
or is it still just as loud?

yes...but i changed it to an AriZona iced tea can just now with #1 steel wool...works great...

i know what u mean... but its not exactly the same... i still have the stock silencer on my bike because it is welded on... so i took a can had the small hole end go up towards the tip of the pea shooter pipe... then the rest on the silencer...works

What bike do you have, pbfunrider? Mine is a (more-or-less) stock Cag/Daytona, 47cc, stock exhaust.