I had a titanium end can on my old K5 Strom. It is well made and has stood up exceptionally well to serious abuse. It's done about 73k miles and it's held up through all kinds of riding, weather, salt and everything else you can throw at it. The only issue I had was that one exhaust lug cracked and I had to get it welded and reinforced. I'm replacing it with a GPR 3/4 length system. The GPR looks and feels better made. That's not to say Scorpion make bad exhaust, the quality of the work is very good. The GPR looks to have been designed well, the pipes being larger diametre and care taken with the lengths and bends. Even if I could get a 3/4 Scorpion system I'd still go for the GPR.
My opinion is that Scorpion copy OEM systems fairly closely, don't change much as far as pipe design goes (diametre and lengths) and then only add their own end can. I've also seen this with the DR-Z exhaust system they make. I was going to get a Scorpion system for the DR-Z, but soon realised is not that different from stock except for being made from better materials and having a more free flowing end can. In the case of the DR-Z it also looks like they made the pipe work and then stuck one of their stock size end cans on it. The result being that the can looks too long for a short bike like the DR-Z, it sticks out behind the bike rather than sitting on the side. This put me off Scorpion completely, to me the lack of engineering an end can to fit a bike properly is telling me they don't pay attention to the rest of the pipework either. Evidence of this is quite obvious if you start comparing dyno charts of Scopion systems on DR-Z to something made by other manufacturers.
If you want to see exceptional craftsmanship, have a look at Yoshimura exhausts. I'm a big fan of Yoshimura products, even though I own nothing they make (yet!) Every exhaust is a work of art, you can see the quality in the welds and the attention to little details. Look at the picture of the pipework on this baby! (BTW, you can't use a centre stand with the Yoshi for the Glee, I guess they didn't want to compromise
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http://www.yoshimura-rd.com/ps-5142-216 ... d-cap.aspx
