I finally went through with it!

I actually winded up taking off the stock muffler to hear it. I found the sound to be very agresive and I actually liked the tone, so I winded up cutting off the stock muffler and running straight 1 3/4 inch pipe all the way to the back to the tail. The pipe was $8 the clamp was $2 and I also bought a small drag pipe baffle off of amazon for like $11. I'm very happy with the sound only down side is its a little ugly with just having that single 1 3/4 pipe there. Overall I'm pretty happy with my $21 exhaust. :rockon:

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Here I thought you got married!:BLAA:

yea what he said, pics or it never happened

Here's a pic but like a said it sounds good but its not that great in the looks dept.

And another pic

looks like someone has shoved a scaffold pole up its ar$e

If you plan on keeping it like that I'd find a way to out the stock shroud back on to cover it up

Put some type of muffler on. You are literally sapping HP with that setup!

I guess you just want to make sure the engine is not negatively effected by removing the back pressure that the muffler provided.



It's not much on looks, but I imagine it sounds great, except to your neighbors.

I'd imagine you will have less friends in the future if you continue riding with an open exhaust. You will piss off EVERYONE with that setup.

callmegandhi said:

Here I thought you got married!:BLAA:

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Haha ^ na only 19 I'm not getting married anytime soon.

ChevyFazer said:

If you plan on keeping it like that I'd find a way to out the stock shroud back on to cover it up

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That's a good idea I think ill put that stock cover back on so it doesn't look as ugly.

DHoback said:

Put some type of muffler on. You are literally sapping HP with that setup!

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I ordered a baffle made for drag pipes off of amazon last night so that should quiet it down a little bit. Do you think it would create enough back pressure so I won't lose any power?

Here's the baffle I ordered hopefully that will help with the back pressure and quiet it a little bit.

It is challenging to sort out fact from fiction with back pressure.
You can read though this page just to get an idea of the questions involved;
Straight pipe / back pressure motorcycle? - Yahoo! Answers

my theory is the cats should provide enough back pressure as to not burn valves, as for horsepower, I'd have to dyno to get accurate numbers

I think I should be fine. It's not like I just took off the muffler and left it like that. The headers, cat, and all the bends plus I added piping to run it out the tail, and I bought a baffle to put in it. They all should add a little back pressure and the baffle should do a decent amount for back pressure and making a it a little less obnoxious thank you all for the advise it game me a few more angles to look at this situation.