Well I decided to bite the bullit and buy the Arrow, it arrived today, only 17 days all the way from Italy to my front door, I bought it from an Ebay seller called EM Lineamoto. total cost was $ 424.59 Canadian.
This pipe is nothing short of WICKED !! the quality is superb with beautiful welds and it fits perfect, I've heard Yamaha even contract these guys to build pipes for their bikes in Europe.
The sound with the silencer installed is not noticably louder than the stock exhaust, but much deeper, without the silencer the sound is absolutely HEAVENLY !!! when I fired the bike up I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, the idle sounds amazing with a really nice Thump Thump Thump Thump, when you rev it it's LOUD ! Sweet

I'm fitting a GSXR 1000 end can to mine, having a mid pipe made at the moment, I got this one out of the scrap bin at my local bike shop, light as a feather & it won't be noisy. Looks good too....

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Hiya chaps. Been looking at all the differant cans you have fitted, so many to chose.
So, im off over to quill tomorrow after a call to them they say they wiil make me a can and link pipe to fit my xt600 2kf 1990 vintage. I have a evo3 on my BMW R1200GS and im well pleased with it.

Dave.

I,m looking at putting an ttr 600 exhaust onto my xt600 ,no performance gain but save a few kilo,s in weight and it loks better..

This is a "Coby" automotive "straight through" type muffler/resonator with a custom made intermediate pipe using the factory teflon slip ring where it connects to the front pipe.
It is very LOUD but just legal here.
It has given more low and midrange power, and is half the weight of the factory lump of metal, sounds good, and is safer.

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how exactly is it safer? the loud pipes thing is a bunch of BS created by harley riders as an excuse to justify having deafening pipes. all they really do is annoy those behind/beside you. sound does not travel forward that well when the pipe's outlet is aimed to the back. pure physics.

I thought someone might "pipe up" (excuse the pun) over the safety issue.
On a bike there is nothing worse than being cut-off by a motorist who is lane changing and who obviously didn't see you. Probably because you were in the blind spot of their mirrors, a bike being far smaller than a car.
A louder bike reduces the chance of this.
Bob

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Hi,
Can I ask, now you have the arrow can on, seeing as there are no supports/bungs to hold the plastic out. Would soft panniers press it down onto the can? and does the can get hot enough to melt the plastic?

cheers

The standard exhaust had been modified (shortened) by the previous owner of my 2007 XT 600 E and I fancied a SS replacement to give the bike a bit more style. I found a Dominator (oval) exhaust on eBay(UK):

Dominator Exhaust OVAL Stainless YAMAHA XT 600 05- + DB KILLER | eBay

I did a bit of research on Youtube etc which seemed positive, this was advertised as '05 on', I messaged them to confirm, the fit, they confirmed it would fit 100% so I ordered it. After a week I noticed it hadn't been dispatched so chased them up. They responded by asking for the outside diameter of the header and for some photographs of the bike with the original unit removed, I gave them what they wanted including frame # etc. A week later it was dispatched and I received it a further week later. I opened the packaging, both end can and link pipe were wrapped (separately) in bubble wrap which, when carefully removed revealed two dents in the can, on the outside where they would be seen, also there were areas of scratching which was less noticeable but obviously done in the factory. I immediately emailed them with photographs and they offered me a £40 partial refund, they then asked me to fit it and check all was otherwise OK. This I reluctantly did, albeit I didn't want when badly damaged (it's my job to dent it!) it became apparent very quickly that the link pipe wasn't the right shape causing the end can to sit where it would contact the rear tyre, not even parallel to the frame. I took photo's and emailed Dominator, who asked if I wanted a replacement, on the grounds that it too, probably wouldn't fit and/or arrive damaged I declined. I packaged it up in the original packaging (taking photo's as I went - just in case) and sent it back to Poland using their UPS account. A week or so later I was credited with the original price and packaging.

To summarise, hopefully in an objective way. I was disappointed with the packaging allowing the end can to be dented also no 'Fragile' marking etc. the build quality was good apart from the scratching which showed lack of attention to detail. Why it didn't fit, I really don't know, they had all the information possible. If there is a 'plus side', the company always responded rapidly to my communications and thanked me for my photographs, they refunded my money the day they received the returned item. Unfortunately they are still advertising this unit on eBay so BEWARE!

I'm not sure if my 'late model' (2007) bike is radically different to older models, I wouldn't have thought so, maybe you know different!) I'll keep looking for a suitable replacement unit over here in Portugal.

Update:

It's now about a month after I received my refund from Dominator, I mentioned above that Dominator let me return the item at no cost using their UPS account. Yesterday I got a bill from UPS for 182.00 € because Dominator have refused to pay the bill, seems strange as the original price for post and packaging was about £ 25.00. Looks like I've got another battle on my hands now, fortunately I hadn't deleted all the emails between me and Dominator and I've found the one saying to return it at no charge using their UPS account. Personally I'd advise against dealing with Dominator.