Kenny, I'm sure that sound
is awesome. Much different than any of the sound files I've heard or other exhausts I've had on my the bike. There's no comparison. The sound is in a class of it's own. I love how it turns heads. I think people wonder how that deep, throaty sound could possibly be coming from my little bike! It's funny, I've been riding the bike since last summer. No one ever even cam remotely close to mistaking my bike for a harley. Until I did the exhaust. In the past 3-4 weeks I've had 4 occasions were somebody either asked me about my HD and one instance where a guy literally talked about how he did this and that to his sportster (pointing at my bike) and saying this and that and finally it hit him what my bike wasn't. I'm certain he was more a talker than a rider but still funny though. On each of those 4 occasions the conversations came after they saw and heard me pull up first.
That's pretty much the same thing I did except I kept the same header dimensions by using 1 3/4" pipe and my 8" baffle is deeper in the pipe. The baffle is in the area underneath the heat shield.
I've now done about a dozen different mods to the baffles (I've got another identical one that I've messed around with also) and the bike sure is picky on the back pressure/free flowing dynamics. Running straight drag pipe with no baffle hurt the low end torque. In making minor changes to the baffle for both pressure and sound I once lost about 10mph off the top end and then tweaked it again and got the 10 mph back plus another 5 mph. Then I'd experiment with it to change the sound and mess it up and have to do it again. I was running with a 55 pilot jet with bleed holes, 152.5 main and no needle spacer at all, mixture screw out 1.5 turns and pod filter prior to installing this pipe and with the pipe for about 3 weeks. During those 3 weeks my gas mileage was about 38 mpg. (The way I ride accounts for a good bit of the poor mpg). Last week, to see if I could get more mpg, I tried a 155 main, added two #4 washers, turned the mixture screw in 1/2 turn witht he result being that it killed the top end. I'd be doing 60 mph, roll on the throttle and basically get nothing. I could creep up to 70 mph at best. Yesterday I restored the carb to the prior settings I described. I've put about 225 miles on the bike since installing the pipe and I have not had any color change at all on the header. It's still nice and chromey!
Kenny, can you make a sound recording of it and post it or email it? I'd like to hear what it sounds like with a 2" pipe.