Baffles or Open?

[Nuage420b]

OK i'll be doing my exhaust mod and have so many roads to choose from. Originally i planned to gut the pipe, and use angles of metal in the middle like this |>>>| not i'm looking into replacing the pipes in the middle with high flow baffles? and retaining the rear chamber and the exhaust valve. right now i think I will be doing the baffles replacing the pipes first, then if i'm not happy with that doing the |>>>| baffles. if that fails too just cut the rear chamber off dual tip it and give it the steel wool guts? any input suggestions. I'm having a lot of trouble with indecision here[confused]

 

[dave_xb12r]

I would weld a washer to a bolt to have an adjustable tuning baffle. That way if you're totally lacking torque, just turn the screw a little to increase back pressure

 

[Nuage420b]

but if i keep the rear chamber on i won't have access to the bend.

 

[dave_xb12r]

That's not a stock bend anyway. Just using the pic as an example. That's a voodoo pipe. Just put it in one of the pipes or near the outlet.

 

[Midnight82]

I can tell you about my pipe... Mine is a stock pipe with the Active Exhaust Switch welded wide open. the back of the pipe was cut off and now I have a rounded rear plate and dual tips. It's loud as hell, but I think I'm losing a bit of low end power since it's essentially straight piped.

 

[Azxb12s]

yep dave xb12r knows what he is talking about all the harley guys do that so they can keep the noise and keep the torque

 

[1badtitan90]

I did mine like midnights and I can feel I lost a little low end which is OK but I mostly lost on the top end. About 5 to 8 MPH on the big end. If i could go back I would do the bolt and washer idea