TheSavagePJ
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Schenectady, NY
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Hey guys, been lurking around this board some time now, just finally got around to starting to work on the bike. Just did the seat spacer mod and wow, what a difference! No more sore butt-bone. Anyway...
I know this question has been asked plenty before, but since I'm new, I don't have stones the start cracking away gung-ho. Doing this on past autos has only left me with more problems.
When I bought this (my first) bike, I didn't happen to look at the exhaust itself. The bike started up, sounded to me like it ran okay, had everything it needed to pass NYS inspection, so I picked it up for more than I care to share. Upon closer inspection, I found that someone modified a harley sportster exhaust by cramming it full of steel wool and bending the mount so that it would fit the frame.
Steel wool? Really? I have a lot to learn. I knew that wasn't right, and probably not doing my bike any good, so I took that off entirely, and put another sportster exhaust on unmodded I got from a friend. I know nothing of tuning and rejetting, so now it sounds like an oversized popcorn maker. Way too loud, sounds like I tried making it into an ghetto mans HD. Really ugly, kinda embarrassing.
I was thinking of going to a muffler shop and getting a longer, more streamlined pipe and wrapping it. Would I have to replace the header pipe in order to make it one solid piece, or some other way? I know that Serowbot posted a rather long and detailed tuning guide, which I studied at length but never actually put into practice. New guy jitters, I suppose.
Cash is really tight right now (recently unemployed) so I want to save myself from going back to the stealership for something I should learn how to do on my own. In other words, help me clean up someone elses mess.
Steel wool? Really? C'mon...
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