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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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Mr. Hyde Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 565 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Gender:	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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jomiyo Junior Member Offline Thump or Bump! Posts: 86 Elmira, NY Gender:	Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more..... Reply #17 - 05/06/08 at 11:07:43 Mayes- 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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Ed L. Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline "We All go a Little Crazy Sometimes" Norman Bates Posts: 2808 Sunny Florida Gender:	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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MAYES YaBB Newbies Offline The SAVAGE beast!!! Posts: 27 Ohio Gender:	Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more..... 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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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
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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matt_savage Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 177	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 -Matt
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Re: Ain't whistling dixie no more.....
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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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28834 L.A. California Gender:	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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