I purchased a 95 Savage on Craigslist about a month ago - it was bone stock and the paint had faded to a rosy pink from sitting in the previous owners yard for God knows how long.
The muffler was rusted and full of holes - it rattled and whistled like crazy. The chrome on the head pipe was gone.
I bought a 18" piece of muffler pipe at the auto parts store and clamped it on the header and ran it around the block - once. It was so loud, all the dogs in the neighborhood went wild and people came running from their homes - it was way too loud!
I cut 4 inches off the end of the pipe and fabricated it into a baffle and hammered it back into the end of the pipe. I then stuffed the pipe with tightly rolled chicken wire with a double strip of 1 inch heat wrap woven through the middle of the baffle.
I painted the pipe with high heat silicone paint and it looked pretty good and sounded great. I went ahead and wrapped the header and pipe with tape and sprayed it with another 3 coats of silicone.
Total cost $55.00 with the muffler clamp. Would have been twenty bucks if I didn't wrap it.
video here:
http://www.bikemovies.com/movie/011986/ 
Mark
1995 Savage
Central FL USA
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