Installation complete.
This was taken on Saturday. On Sunday I went on the March of Dimes Ride, which was a lot of fun. I am a new memeber of the Southern Cruisers mc club and rode with them for this ride. I met a lot of good folks and am looking forward to a lot more of these rides. This club is linked to several others in this area of the state and they have stuff going on all the time. I receive emails several times per week about the activities that are coming up, and with the different clubs all linked together everyone gets the info from everyone else.
I like it.
The complete bike..........
After the ride was over, on my way home...actually about 1/4 mile from the house the muffler hits the pavement......grinding sounds...............not good..........
The weld at the front end of the muffler did not hold.
BUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!
The surprising thing was that after I removed the muffler in order to ride to the house (got to get the car and go back to pick up the muffler....that sucker was hot! Burned the green grass dead). Anyway, with just the header and no muffler, the bike ran great. It had been running rich all day. I had put an Edelbrock Quicksilver on it for the days ride but was not able to lean it out enough...needed a different needle. So it had been running rich in the low and high range, but good in the midrange. After the muffler was off, and just the header, the engine loved it...ran much better and the sound was just AWESOME!!!
So now I need to work out a new attachement for the Supertrapp...I will leave the discs off the next time and run with just the open muffler . The Amal goes back on until I can get some new needles for the Edelbrock.