Yamaha exaust & Lexus

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Just sall on TV today where Lexus hired Yamaha to tune their exaust on their new LFA $375,000.00 sports car. One more reason to feel good about that stock XS exaust working so well on your bike

[natemoen]

Just sall on TV today where Lexus hired Yamaha to tune their exaust on their new LFA $375,000.00 sports car. One more reason to feel good about that stock XS exaust working so well on your bike

If only I could find a good set and not have to sell parts of my body or a small child......

[TomRodgers]

i have a stock exhaust off of an '80 (frankenbike). it was painted black by the PO, and seems to be solid enuf.

i was going to throw it up on eBay next week or so........ p.m. me if you are interested....

[81xsproject]

Lexus is Toyota, and I believe that Yamaha and Toyota are in bed together as well.

[natemoen]

i have a stock exhaust off of an '80 (frankenbike). it was painted black by the PO, and seems to be solid enuf.

i was going to throw it up on eBay next week or so........ p.m. me if you are interested....

As usual when one is available money is not.....Lifes a B...........

[mxmikie]

yamaha makes all the dohc heads for toyota/lexus

[DiverRay]

They also designed the heads for the first Corvette alloy small block in the ZR1, as well as helping design the heads for some British cars in the late '70's and early '80's.
Yamaha has a reputation for some of the best flow work in head design.

[kevxs]

I believe yamaha also had a hand in the Ford Taurus SHO Supercharged V8.

[79XS11F]

Lexus is Toyota, and I believe that Yamaha and Toyota are in bed together as well.

This is correct. Toyota and Yamaha are in the end the same company. I learned this from the sales manager at my local Yamaha dealer in the late 70s.
Rob

[cywelchjr]

This is correct. Toyota and Yamaha are in the end the same company. I learned this from the sales manager at my local Yamaha dealer in the late 70s.
Rob

According to what I can see, Toyota has a 5% stake in Yamaha Motors and Yamaha Motors and Yamaha Co (child and parent corps) each have 500,000 shares of stock in Toyota. So, they are by no means the same company, although they collaborate together a lot, and each have stock in the other, they are in the end no more than partners, and in neither case is one a majority partner of the other. I just spent 5 minutes looking this up. It's not hard to find out what's going on anymore.

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Exaust

If only I could find a good set and not have to sell parts of my body or a small child......

Wish I new your were looking, these just went for $115.00 and looked pretty good, sorry. I have seen them bring $400+ in this shape, I will let you know if I see any good ones come up cheap

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Great

This is correct. Toyota and Yamaha are in the end the same company. I learned this from the sales manager at my local Yamaha dealer in the late 70s.
Rob

If that is true then do i now have to start worring about my breaks and steering on my Yamaha. Wait, there is a bright side, next time I get pulled over for doing 100 mph I will just tell the cop "it's not my fault, it is a Toyota"