Long story short, I live on a popular southeastern Wisconsin lake, heavily patrolled by the DNR. Last winter racing around the track the warden came up to check our noise db levels. In WI it's 96db. My LT250r measured 114bd at half throttle, which it where they tast it at. Way, Way too loud the warden says. He said he'd give me 98db, but that's it. Let me go with a warning. but a ticket id $170.  5db over 96 oit doubles, with every db increase.

Im runnin a 89 250 on stock bore, no porting, Boyesen rad valve, 38mm Mikuni, K&N with a custom shield, FMF fatty, powercore silencer with a turn down clamped on. It breathes and runs very well on the ice, loves the cold air. I
 put some tires on it to move it into the shop to see what I can do. I'm thinking about a stock silencer. At least it is stock, the warden knows what an aftermarket silencer looks like, unfortunately he's not dumb and I've been dealing with him for years. Looks like if I cut my powercore off where it is welded to the pipe, a stock silencer from a 85 or 86 LT250r would almost weld right in, and mount up to the stock points. I know I will have to de-tune. I did it with my 400ex and just finished de-tuning my Banshee with stock silencers. Just worried about not enough flow. Looking for some thoughts on this, positive and negative, it has to happen. Thanks, Matt.

114? holy crap is there any packing in your silencer?

Silencer has fresh packing. I made the airbox. My buddy has the exact same db meter the warden has. Tests the same.

See if you can get a hold of a cascade silencer I know they made them for the Zilla but you had to build the stinger.

So I bought the silencer I linked to above. Got him down to 40 shipped. Looks like its in nice shape. Wont get here till next week, then I'll start cutting. After it's mounted I'll blast it and paint it flat black. Thinking about painting the fatty also to make it more stock looking. Anyone ever wrap their pipe with header wrap? That might quiet the pipe noise down some, anything that helps.

i used exhaust wrapping on a old fmf  with stock silencer. it was very quiet...

I got my '86 silencer yesterday. To my supprise it is aluminum. It is in very nice shape, not beat up at all. But bein aluminum I don't have the spool gun or gass to weld it. I'll have to make a relocation bracket to mount to the grab bar to mount the silence3r. Got it fit to the fmf mid pipe, I cut the poor silencer right off. Gonna have to get a gfood clamp tp secure the pipe/silencer connection. Just holding it up with my hand in the pick cause I didn't make the bracket yey. It is definitely a lot quitter at thje rear of the quad, but still so muck 2 stroke pipe noise, got a roll of header wrap ordered, hopefully next Friday I'll have it all done and I'll have my buddy bring his db meter over for a tes D?t.

maybe a thick foam filter. also cut up a 3/16 yoga mat or something and line the airbox and under the seat.  glue it on with 3M spray glue for foam maybe.

- where did 7u get the awesome silencer?  you could get it powder coated thick and it might drop the db a little. vibration could be a factor aswell.

Did the header tape affect the performance or is the silencer?