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Message started by HotCarl on 06/10/06 at 20:48:45

Title: Drilling a baffle
Post by HotCarl on 06/10/06 at 20:48:45

So I'm about to drill the baffle on a dyna muffler. Which do you think would produce a deeper, less raspy tone: 3 or 4 smaller holes (11/32 or below) or one big one (3/4). Or would make any difference?

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by Keith_B on 06/11/06 at 13:27:57

I would not drill it, LOUD PIPES JUST MAKE PEOPLE HATE BIKERS! :o

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by steelwolf on 06/11/06 at 18:36:52

Keith_B wrote:

I would not drill it, LOUD PIPES JUST MAKE PEOPLE HATE BIKERS! :o

Yea I just hate to hear my bike fire up in the morning. The straight pipe brings me to the point of insanity. Hate myself, love myself, touch myself. It gets so confusing! ;D

What makes people hate bikers is bikers. The way you act on the road. Polite, defensive riders usually have no negative results from their exhaust. If you're out there tearing up the roads like you are the only one there it wont matter what pipes you have. You're gonna give us all a bad name. Don't belive it? When is the last time you saw a GSX-R tearing down the road pissing people off? Was it the volume of the pipe you noticed? If volume of the pipe determined how the motorcyclist was perceived you could pull a wheelie on a stock Savage going down the interstate @ 80mph and nobody would even notice.

Loud pipes are not going to kill my wife or kids as they go to school. Some idiot trying to show how "good" he can ride as he passes in curves and rides wheelies on public roads on the other hand might. And I'm not picking on any one group in particular. I'm just making a point.

You want to set a positive example? Show some respect for the other guy. Cage, Bike, Semi, no matter what they are driving they will think better of you/us as a whole from a simple act of kindness before they ever worry about how loud your bike is.

Drill the pipe if you want. It's your bike.

My opinion, Don't leave anything but the chrome, and then paint that black! ;D

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by Keith_B on 06/11/06 at 20:44:40

You are right Steelwolf! But, Loud pipes is just one more thing folks can add to there list! Hotcarl, like the man said it's your bike. ;)

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by Island_Biker on 06/12/06 at 06:42:00

I agree that it is your own bike and you can do whatever you want to make it your own.

However, I do have to say that very loud pipes do annoy people separately from the way some bikers drive. Although they are related.

In the warm weather, I keep the front door of my store open. Whenever a bike with a combination of very loud pipes and a driver who accelerates quickly away from the stop sign goes by, I see the expressions of annoyance on my customers faces.

A pipe that is just as loud, with a slower acceleration doesn't draw the same reaction - primarily because the decibel level is lower.

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by thumperclone on 06/12/06 at 07:09:19

HotCarl wrote:

start small and work up the larger the hole the louder/raspier the sound....
neighbors b.f. has an ironhorse chopper with 12" drag pipes hes an annoying rider as he backs down the driveway when he comes to visit he keeps goosing the throttle then for good measure one more good rapp at shut down.....thats annoying our houses are only a driveway apart...told him he spanks his monkey too much he just says thank you!!
luughed at him the other day he was gettin on his bike and puttin ear plugs in(no helmet law state)now thats TOO loud!!!!

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by clueless on 06/12/06 at 07:41:51

3/4 inch hole in my baffle. Not annoyingly loud, but bike breathes better.

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by HotCarl on 06/12/06 at 12:32:55

I put a 3/8 inch hole in the baffle and it sounds pretty good, might put one more. I wish i could find a muffler that had a nice low rumble, instead of a raspy "put-put". I had a hollowed out sporster, and the tone was great, but much too loud. I looking for tone, not really volume. I thought i read somewhere that there are mufflers designed with a bunch of chambers that produce a low tone.. but I don't know where to get them or if that's even true.

Title: Re: Drilling a baffle
Post by steelwolf on 06/12/06 at 15:37:42

Ok, ok, ok. I do agree "obnoxiously" loud pipes, being filled with "wring the grip off" throttle are a pain in the @ss for all of us. And yes if you have to wear ear plugs to ride they are way too loud. But my point is still the same. The loud pipes are mostly overlooked as long as the rider is respectfull. If the bike is being ridden in a manner to bring the db level to it's max then it's the rider not being respectfull that's the problem. Not the pipes. Modest acceleration/deceleration and avoiding that annoying "blip" at the stoplights will keep even the loudest of pipes tamed. Loud when you want/need to be and tolerable when not, but always curteous.