I have 3 choices and am open to suggestions. My 3 choices are between python venom radius, samson street sweeper, or vance and hines straightshots. Any suggestions?
Leave it stock, unless you are a sociopathic jerk.
It will never be fast, so why make it loud and slow? Loud pipes don’t save lives, they just cost us places to ride.
The wife has a 09 hd nightster, and wants to change the exhaust to a vance and Hines short shot, no problem, but harley wants to change the intake, retune and dyno test, so to add a $450. exhaust it is now going to run over $1100, is all this necessary?
STAY AWAY FROM POWER COMMANDERS!!!!!….Especially on Sportsters and Softails, there is very little room to mount them, and they only control fuel, nothing else.
This question is being asked ALOT the last couple days….
The other two answers are both semi-correct, but there is more info that you should know.
I just asked a questions here earlier asking why people make such uninformed decisions when purchasing injection tuners…comparing the PC and such to Screamin Eagle’s SUPER TUNER….read the question info and posts, if you have any questions, email me here through my profile and I will be happy to help……. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkZTFy82V8Mdv7H_xV8E1Nvsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100404103549AAdemN7
HD’s injection will allow for a slight exhaust change with no mods, meaning a Screamin Eagle slip-on muffler, for better sound. However, The V&H Short Shots are for looks only, they are not good performance pipes at all…they are TOO SHORT and too free-flowing, even with tuning, they will not offer very good perfromance (they also tend to cause exhaust soot build-up on the wheel area). On top of that, the exhaust bracket on the Sporty’s and Softails is also the exhaust cross-over, which helps make torque, eliinate that, you will lose alot of mid-range torque, the mid-range is where most of your riding is done and where you need the power the most.
Everyone wants better sound, but what about making the bike run CORRECTLY, more effieciently, more power….all this will actually make the engine run easier with less strain, it will make it run cooler which will make it last longer.
If you open up the exhaust, you should open up the intake and let more air in…but…if you do this, you MUST remap the injection to give it more fuel.
Properly tuned, with a GOOD set of pipes, a Screamin Eagle air cleaner or Arlen Ness Big Sucker (very good air cleaner) and proper tuning, you can pick up about 10-12 hp and about the same in torque.
Two similar questions… http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100403172656AAyGT23&r=w#Ar5pX0HjA2L6e.81NFr.
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The pipes are a slash cut and they still send my exhaust to my back fender.
Have you looked at the Vance & Hines website or eBay?
were can i find an aftermarket exhaust for this bike?
check ebay
I want to buy a 2010 Harley Sportster iron 883 and I want to put a VANCE & HINES BIG RADIUS EXHAUST. I just come from the dealer and they told me that it will cost me $1700. I was told that the exhaust cost $600, I need to get a filter $200 and fuelpak $300. I guess the rest are tuning and installation. Is this realy the case and are there alternatives?
Thanks
PLEASE contact me, I have some advice for you, but too much to write here. Email me here through my profile with your regular email address so I can write you.
To do an exhaust job PROPERLY, it can be pricey, BUT…not as expensice as they are telling you.
DO NOT use the V&H Fuel Pack!!!…..DO NOT use ANY type of "piggy-back" add-on fuel module!!!….Go with the Screamin Eagle Super Tuner…you won’t regret it!!!
If a Harley DEALER is recommending the Fuel Pack…Stay Away from them, they don’t know their @$$ from a hole in the ground…The Screamin Eagle Super Tuner is FROM HD, and THE most advanced/tunable system on the market and is made specifically for HD’s Delphi Injection system.
A friend of mine just had his 09 Fat Boy done…V&H Staggered Duals $600, Screamin Eagle Air Cleaner $150, Screamin Eagle SUPER TUNER $400, and DYNO TUNING $250….$1400 TOTAL….and he picked up 12hp and 8ft/lb of Torque (would have been higher with a better choice in pipes)
I can’t find the O/D of the exhaust pipe for this bike anywhere… can anyone help? Thanks!
What part of the pipe? motor end - middle or exit? Go get some callipers and a rule - measure it and you have your answer.
im looking at upgrading my FXDS from stock exhaust to vance and hines shortshots, but since the pipes are shorted (obviously) do i need to be concerned about exhaust fumes either stinking up or damaging my right side saddle bag and its contents?
If I were you I would be more concerned about the added noise without any real performance the short-shots provide. Add the higher cost of the pipes vs. the screamin’ eagle equivalent, the remapping (or re-jetting) & airbox mods.
Its your bike, outfit it the way you want, but at least look at the S/E slip-ons. They at least add performance, and will extend below the saddlebag and would not be cause for any concern whatsoever, and give a better sound than the V&H’s. Surdyke at one time had the best price on Screamin’ Eagle pipes.
my friend has a 2 stroke and he said his silencer got clogged overtime and it needs to be cleaned out.
i have a 4 stroke bike.
honda xl 185 1981
i dont have the original exhaust pipe, but i dont know how old the one i have is.
if i put my finger at the end of the pipe, there is a lot of black sticky stuff stuck on the sides. i would say its about less than a millimeter thick.
will i have to clean out my muffler/ exhuast pipe? and how do i do it?
No, cleaning out your muffler/exhaust pipe is not necessary on your bike unless it has been in storage for awhile, then you ought to check it for critter nesting materials.
I am looking for 135cc PROTON Performance Exhaust System, the high end one form my RX 135… There isn’t much online information available on this.
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Baffles are pipes with holes (louvers) in them to dissipate the exhaust noise. Think of a cheese grater rolled into a tube.