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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
Reply #15 - 05/06/08 at 10:27:22
 
buttgoat1 wrote on 05/06/08 at 09:20:23:
I put on a similar turnout (screamin chicken something or another............) and the only baffle was a perforated piece of metal set at an angle in the main bore.  I fabbed up a baffle to put a cross piece directly inline with the headpipe.  I cut and bent a piece of tubing so that there is a 1-1/2" round piece for the sound/gases to hit and hafta go around.  I may eventually get a baffle, but I did this while it was still easy on and off.  I tried posting some pice but had trouble.


Yep, that's sounds like my ear popper.   I cut up some muffler pipe I bought at Auto-Zone, then  drilled holes in it and slide it down the intake side.  helped a little.  I was thinking of adding a baffle in the output side.  I cut a cardboard template (round circle with 2 tabs).  Just have to think of what metal to use.  
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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
Reply #16 - 05/06/08 at 10:49:53
 
When you're buying an HD muffler off of e-Bay you should ask the  seller if the baffles have been punched out. With the guys I rode with it was standard practise to take a pipe and drive it down the muffler and through the baffles.
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Reply #17 - 05/06/08 at 11:07:43
 
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if you are loosing that fish tale pipe, i might be interested in keeping it out of the garage for you.
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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
Reply #18 - 05/06/08 at 13:38:08
 
Mayes, if you switch to a sporty muffler drill a 3/8 inch hole in the baffle, brings the volumn up just about right and gives a good crackle when backing off from speed.
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Reply #19 - 05/06/08 at 20:39:44
 
Hey Ed L. thanks for the tip,I don't want to lose the deep rumble, just trying too quiet it down alittle. Jomiyo, I'll keep you posted.
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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
Reply #20 - 06/19/08 at 08:11:55
 
My home made baffler has bit the bullet.  The bike was getting louder and louder and the mixture had to be adjusted and adjusted.

So.....  for the time being I switched to a Stock Dyna take off.  Don't like it.... too quite and the bike no longer has a unique sound.  Sounds like every other bike.....  Embarrassed

But.....  will be making a baffle out of all steel not copper this time....  and welded.  Just have to get motivated......
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Reply #21 - 07/24/08 at 00:12:13
 
I made a lollipop baffle. I just took a bolt with an eye hole, two washers, a smaller bolt and it's corresponding nut. I used the washers and the smaller bolt to block the eye hole, then I put a hole a few inches from the end of the muffler. I put the eye hole bolt through and tighten. It did help deaden the noise a bit.
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Reply #22 - 01/29/09 at 11:59:57
 
MAYES wrote on 05/05/08 at 20:28:45:
My bike has a straight through pipe with a fishtail end. The darn thing shoots flames when deaccelerating. It is too loud!!I have a muffler(factory takeoff) of a Harley Sportster. Anybody have a sportster muffler? Does it sound good? Was it hard to install?


I've got two sportster mufflers.  Just today I pulled off my unaltered sporty muffler, grabbed my extra sporty muffler, popped out the baffle plug so that it's straight thru, installed it and went for a ride.  It sounds much better to me.  It's not too loud.  WOT in 1st gear is getting up there in volume a little but the other gears, highway riding, etc., it's not too loud in my opinion.  On a scale of 1 to 10, with the volume of a stock S40 muffler at 1 and header only at 10, it's about a 5.  I've certainly heard louder, baffled aftermarket mufflers.  Anyways, I figured if I didn't like it I'd just throw the other muffler back on.  But I like it a lot and will keep it on.
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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
Reply #23 - 03/25/09 at 09:46:37
 
How did you pop out the baffle plug?  I've got a stock sporty muffler I was planning on putting on and drilling a 1/2 hole in the baffle.  But if I can just pop out the baffle easily and be done with it I will.  TIA

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Reply #24 - 03/25/09 at 09:58:13
 
After riding with it and making the new longshot, I realize that Ed L.'s idea of drilling a 3/8" hole is probably better.  But, if you want to try it, here's what I did.  I got a 2" section of heavy pipe that was just a hair smaller in diameter than the inside of the muffler exhaust tube.  I put a piece of 2x4 on the garage floor, set the pipe upright on it, inserted the pipe and went to banging with a 3 pound sledge hammer.  It took a lot more pounding than I thought it would.  But it came out.  It's much louder with the piece fully removed.  My DIY longshot isn't at loud as the modded HD muffler.  
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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
Reply #25 - 03/25/09 at 10:26:04
 
From what I've read, silencers for firearms are made with several expansion chambers.  And in performance expansion chamber for 2 stokes the idea was to size the chamber to reflect the sound wave back so that the flected wave at least partially cancelled out the new one.
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