Hey guys just wondering what kind of pipes you have all been running? I've been thinking of running a straight pipe instead of the bulky muffler with maybe a small baffle in it...? sound good and do the jets then have to be messed with?

Have run open, and then a gutted 12" glasspack (packing keeps burning out, cheap JC Whitney/Shadetree Powersports sourced Emgo/Motoasia garbage) with a 29" fishtail extension for over a decade. Added a "stick stopper/beer can" baffle, have seen it listed both ways in the catalogs, in 2005 or 2006. Open pipe the bike sounds like a single engine UH1D Huey medivac helicopter, with the glasspack baffle and stick stopper it sounds like a LOACH (Light Observation/Attack Craft, Helicopter)... Be ready for noise violation issues unless you live in one of the very few states that has lifted its muffler requirements.

One of the best things about living where I do... lax motorcycle policies. No muffler restrictions (open pipes are legal), no handlebar height limit, turn signals not required, only need one mirror to be legal and they don't specify which side of the bike or set size requirements. Oh, and you can in fact get a motorcycle only license here...

Stock airbox and filter with the access door removed since 1999 or early 2000. Stock jetting through 2006, then bumped up to a 155/55, which is way too fat, even with the intake/exhaust modifications. Smokes like an old big cam 400 powered Freightliner, lots of toasted black fuel vapors and heavy carbon fluff deposits. In combination with the 15" rise handlebars and full rear fender, dropped the fuel economy from the 70s into the mid 30s mpg.

WD wrote on 05/21/13 at 04:42:45:


Those are sounds I will never forget...burned into my brain they are.

I grew up a few miles from Gray's Army Airfield (on Fort Lewis) in western Washington. The sight and sound of 300 Hueys, Blackhawks, Chinooks, Cobras and observation birds going over the house will likely never be forgotten. Biggest single sortie training mission they ever flew.

One of the Dad's in the Scout Troop was a retired CWO, started flying Cobras when the Corp got them, retired from the Army after a service to service transfer in the late 1960s. One of his old Cobras was sold to the WA State Dept of Natural Resources as a wildland fire fighting craft... he recognized its Army tail numbers through the cheap state repaint.  

Got mine shipped off ebay for $30.

Search 65747-94 (P/N for it)

renegade1 wrote on 05/22/13 at 10:51:02:


Watch eBay and you will find one (or a pair) at a reasonable price.  If you get a pair.....you can always sell the extra one here.  You should be able to get really nice ones for about $ 30 each.  No need to buy rusty, dented or scratched ones.......wait a week and a better set will come along.

I posted an add on Craiglist.....and got several responses and ended up buying a nearly new pair for $ 50.

If you have the coin don't forget about the Raask.

Coin... what's that? Wife kid and another one on the way that stuff is long gone months before I get the paycheque haha. Well I'll try again with the local shop maybe wear a harley shirt or something hahha