Modern Buddy

I am considering a performance exhaust for my Stella 2 stroke. Any suggestions / experiences? Also, how hard is home installation? Any help / info is helpful.

Unless you want to spend a lot of time plug chopping and tuning, I recommend either a sito+ or a sip road. I haven't used a sip road but the sito+ is solid and just takes a main jet change to a 98 or 99 main jet and otherwise takes no messing around.

It really depends on what you want out of it. Looking for torque,between the two above I would go with the SIP. Sito's quality hasn't been what it used to be.

If you want power think expansion chamber...but there is a lot more work with that to get it worth installing!

And yeah....buy a bunch of jets and plugs!

I have a Sito Plus and it's fine. Probably will rust out quickly if you do short trips all the time or ride in rain and/or salt much, but at least it's not expensive.

With a Sito Plus or SIP, I'd also recommend you take the blue plastic layer off the air cleaner, then re-jet the carb with Bald John's jet stack for the low speed jet and main stack (google search this for the jet sizes, or I can look at mine if you can't find it). With that, re-jet the main as appropriate by plug chops at high throttle openings (mine's at a 105 main, but you can't assume the same for yours, they all run different). Then re-adjust the idle air mixture and idle speed and you're set. It'll run like a completely different machine.

The exhaust swap is easy, one clamp on the cylinder outlet and one bolt under the chassis(plus a little coaxing). The carb jet swap is a ten minute job and re-setting the idle adjustments and main jet size takes a little time and some trial and error. Total of probably less than $130 in parts.

Thanks everyone - when the rainy season starts here in Oregon I will give it a whirl. I may be back on here asking for advice -

The Practical side of me says Sip Road.

The Speed Daemon (And my Club Affiliation )in me says Get a 226 Hotwing or a 226 HBomb.

my question is if a person with a stock 2008 stella 2T buys a hotwing 226 does the pipe perform well with just a stock engine or is the hotwing overkill? thanks

I feel like the 226 would be overkill for a stock engine. It's a lot of money to drop on a pipe without first tinkering with your engine imho.

2 years ago, I put on a 226 Hotwing on my 08 and the correct jet and jet stack...
that's it.. nothing else..
and that f*$cker ran like a bat out of hell!
I was impressed.. simple bolt on and WAY FASTER.
luckily got mine when scooterwest ran a 399 special on them the prior winter.
I mean to tell ya.. it screamed!
good luck

jimmbomb wrote:2 years ago, I put on a 226 Hotwing on my 08 and the correct jet and jet stack...
that's it.. nothing else..
and that f*$cker ran like a bat out of hell!
I was impressed.. simple bolt on and WAY FASTER.
luckily got mine when scooterwest ran a 399 special on them the prior winter.
I mean to tell ya.. it screamed!
good luck

I wonder just how bad my gas mileage would drop if I put one of those on my kitted stella

just did a google search on the Hot wing - HOLy SH!T!!! What performance! This is definitely the exhaust. I will order this and post the results. thanks all.