XV250 Ebay/Amazon Slash Cut Exhaust Install Walkthrough

An in depth walkthrough for installing the cheap slash cut straight pipe exhausts for the XV250 commonly found on ebay and amazon. These specific pipes are the "Tarazon" brand on amazon. This video covers up close detail to allow owners with various levels of mechanical skill to install these pipes while following along.
Purchase these pipes here:
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YOU WILL NEED TO REJET YOUR CARB
My bike was already jetted richer than factory at 20 idle 115 main (stock is 17.5 and 110) and it was dangerously lean at wide throttle. If your bike is popping and backfiring on deceleration that's your sign. Shim the needle and rejet with larger jets. I found 2 shims with a 20 idle and 120 main worked great on my bike.

[@helloish12321]

Rejet video is up! The bike runs much better with bigger jets. Check it out- kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGHJf4GnZdqjo8U

[@RLMaciel73]

In Brazil, our exhaust manufacturers for Virago, large factories or homemade, make a new curve underneath, keeping the false curve. the tube doesn't overheat, doesn't turn blue, and doesn't need heat shielding or tape. Some do it at home and burn their legs.

[@Balithazzarr]

I appreciate all of your demos.

[@helloish12321]

I have since taken the baffles out and have been running open pipes. Its certainly louder, but runs much better at high throttle. I felt that no matter my carb tuning the baffled drag pipes reduced my top speed compared to the stock exhaust. Now with open pipes and proper tuning the top speed is about the same. But from 0-45 its much much faster and more responsive. If you dont mind the noise and the crap fit go ahead and get them.

[@LetsPlayOsrs]

Life saver! I was wondering on my build why fuel was coming from the exhaust, took my exhaust off the previous people didn’t put the gasket on..

[@spicybread0404]

Just got my 125 virago (first real bike) and love how clear your information and video is that's awesome bud

[@ryandavis6660]

Brilliant video! May ask if you had any fuel issues..did it affect you mpg . Kind regards Ryan

[@helloish12321]

@@ryandavis6660 The bike ran strange after putting the pipes on until I re jet the carb. After the rejet it runs great. Definitely lost some mpg but the bike is quicker

[@ryandavis6660]

​@@helloish12321thank you for the reply

[@ernesstcruz3711]

Do you recommend the Tarazon brand? I have a Suzuki C50 and that brand is very cheap but I don't know the quality of the exhausts.

[@helloish12321]

Tarazon is a reseller. Lots of cheap Chinese parts are floating around all over the place. Tarazon is some company with a warehouse that has figured out how to market and sell these parts on Amazon at a scale large enough to offset the import taxes. The pipes are crap. The parts are cheap. But nobody else sells pipes for this bike in the US. Many Chinese parts on Amazon from these unrecognizable brands are all the same thing that can often be found MUCH cheaper on Alibaba or aliexpress. Tarazon buys pallets of these from a direct supplier and then marks them up and sells them with prime shipping. These pipes are some kind of stainless so logic says they should last okay. I would expect your pipes would be from an entirely different manufacturer and factory, just sold by Tarazon. But if it's stainless it should last okay. Expect about the same quality I have, spotty.

[@derickrichards1105]

Were you getting a lot of backfiring after you did this?

[@helloish12321]

Yes. Until I rejetted the carb to compensate for the additional airflow the bike was backfiring as soon as you let off throttle and it was big loud pops. It still backfires after the rejet, but its that sort of subtle crackle backfiring when you downshift

[@keithhampton9700]

Open pipes make that tiny cruiser sound big!! Better sound than open pipe Rebel.

[@vintagetintrader1062]

Just fitted one of these to my 2004, same fitment issue. If they just put a bit better effort into the manufacturer of the front pipe they would be a perfect budget pipe

[@helloish12321]

Yeah I agree. I'm thinking that they were tack welded in a jig and then pushed down the assembly line to be fully welded with no support. Then once the welds cool it pulls all the bends out of line. I wasn't able to heat and bend the pipe like I hoped to either, it's going to take some welding to make them straight. I wish there was a better option for pipes in the US.

[@star01248]

Double and triple check the welds on the mounting brackets. The bracket welds or bad redo the bracket welds.

[@MadManny83]

Sounds good for a 250!

[@cordellcastle1301]

Where can I get those pipes?

[@drdoc7508]

crazy that yamaha made that top pipe a fake exhaust... Great info! Sounds Great

[@helloish12321]

The whole stock exhaust is a goofy design. Probably had to meet strict noise regulations somewhere else in the world.

[@Balithazzarr]

@@helloish12321I’ve heard some people order the ones from webike.

[@jrgr6871]

Do you have the link of amazon for buy it??

[@helloish12321]

I did but those listings tend to change. It's the first result when you search xv250 exhaust. They are also everywhere on eBay.

[@bradmcneil4336]

Excellent, thank you.

[@stefantudoroy9571]

Nice sound

[@Johnny_Love_Tree]

How coming does a big bore kit on the bike and kicks it up to a 350cc 😢

[@helloish12321]

I think there used to be some kits available that went to 285cc. The problem is the bore of the case isn't wide enough for the piston skirt to travel all the way down so without boring out the case the kit can only get to 285

[@freddymoberg250]

Thank you for a nice video. 👍🏻

[@Omnipotent-C]

Do you really need to rejet? Couldn't you just turn the fuel mixture screw to 2 turns instead of 1/4.

[@helloish12321]

Yes! The mixture screw only really affects idle and very low throttle. Think of the difference in volume of air traveling at wide open throttle vs 1/8 throttle. If one small orifice could sufficiently meter fuel for such a variation of air flow then there would only need to be one jet and nothing else. The mixture screw is intended for quick adjustments to keep idle smooth at different temps and altitudes. The pilot jet adjusts fuel at lower throttle positions. The main jet determines the max gas flow (full throttle). And the needle determines how fast the rate of fuel increases as throttle increases up to the maximum determined by the main jet. All of them come together as a balance. It's the reason each one of these components is adjustable in the first place. Each bike is different, so I can't say yours will explode if you don't rejet but I felt like mine was very unhappy. Once I rejetted it ran cooler and was noticably faster. If you are going to put the pipes on why not go through the extra trouble to rejet and fully understand your machine.

[@Omnipotent-C]

@@helloish12321I have a 99 xv250 and after watching your videos I'm going to order a 122.5 main jet with a 22.5 pilot and 2 shims. Custom cold air intake (elbow with large pod filter) Iridium spark plugs (NGK) and the ebay $100 slash exhaust with silencers (2 inch). Universal 310 mm 12.5" rear gas/air shocks. I'm also debating on the sprockets so it's not constantly wound out in 5th. Any suggestions on sprockets size? 15 front/40 rear? Thanks for info!

[@helloish12321]

I went up a tooth to 17 in the front and down 2 teeth to 43 in the rear. This dropped the revs about 10% on the highway and I can now stay at 70 all day without concern. I would order a selection of jets since every bike is different. In the end I found 20 idle and 120 main with 2 shims to work the best on mine. Once you have done it a few times changing jets is a breeze

[@billmeloche4918]

Good job!

[@johnhughes3796]

Good video but maybe record your next away from a busy road.

[@evanstavropoulos2993]

When are you going to do a rejet vid?

[@helloish12321]

Hopefully next weekend once this cold weather passes. I was planning on it last weekend when I found the flat front tire I fixed in my most recent video.

[@aizywatches6307]

Did you have to rejet

[@helloish12321]

Yes you definitely have to. Right now I have only shimmed my needle up. I was actually going to film me putting new jets in today until I found a nail in my front tire 😁

[@Imarida2]

It really kills me that this 250 has as much HP as my yamaha sr400. Though its hard to not have ad much horsepower as my sr400. Its amazing how yamaha engineers were able to get such little power out of 400cc.

[@helloish12321]

I have seen an SR400 a few times and always have to stop and admire how many parts Yamaha was able to share between the two bikes. I love the look of the SR for sure and I would be easily convinced into buying one if I found one for sale. I didn't know that about the power though. My previous bike was a 250 single cylinder and I can tell you that while my last bike had more power there is something about having another cylinder that makes the engine more friendly and usable.

[@redfield312]

nice vidio but i dont know how you live there with that noise

[@helloish12321]

If I was a writer I would write a novel about how quickly my hometown became ruined with money and commercialism. At the time I was determined to stay where I grew up. I have since moved to a much quieter town in a different state.

[@lawnboyfromhell817]

Too bad the people making them don't use measuring equipment before the welder😂

[@SavkexDD]

How tf it says 1400cm3 on gasket hahaha

[@helloish12321]

That's the oil capacity, 1.4L. I had the same confusion when I first bought the bike haha.

[@SavkexDD]

@@helloish12321 xD hahaha i thought its the oil capacity but why they put 1400 instead of 1.4, and even cm³ hahahahaha, watchin' video, wishing to buy this system but i live in serbia

[@jaywinters2483]

we never had problems like this when I was growing up becuase things were made in USA, not China.

[@johnhughes3796]

But how much did it cost?

[@billcarson8848]

Thank you. Very helpfull video.

[@johnhughes3796]

Good video but maybe record your next away from a busy road.

[@helloish12321]

Was only the 3rd or so video I had made like this. I started doing a voice over afterwards