justin_o_guy wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:My opinion:
The stock muffler is not worth messing with. It weighs a ton & will sound crummy no matter what you do. Spring for a Supertrapp if you can. I don't know if the guys with the Rassk exhausts would want to do it over as they did or not. Maybe if Ii had one I would sneer at the Trapp. I dunno. I do really like the Supertrapp. Performance jumped. If I could do another mod I would wish I had a single walled header for the free flowing nature it offers. If you go fr the Trapp, go ahead & get 14 baffles. The 6 isn't near enough.
If that's not something you want to do, the HD muffler threads will get you a lot better sound & surely a nice performance increase. If you have a small boat & need an anchor that wont get hung on stuff, the stock muffler may be a good choice here.
I don't sneer at the Trapp. I really like it, but it's on my spouse's now cause I went down a different path
Yeah, as Justin says, don't bother, buy a good aftermarket exhaust and save your stock one if you ever want to sell the bike. After all the work that you'll go through to screw up the stock one, you probably won't like the sound anyway. I think they might even get all blued when you do that too.
It does weigh a ton, as Justin said