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I've started to do some little things to "bond" with my new Buelly(they aren't the easiest things to get along with
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So when I first bought the thing I was shocked at how quiet it was, really all you could hear is a little puff from the pipe...WTF!! This thing is a 1200! It says 1203 Thunderstorm on the crank case! It was embarrassing!!.....so I went to work researching various buell stock exhaust mods most of which were just to gut the can and weld it back together, there was a couple involving some baffles, and then the one I settled on that easily maintains decent back pressure yet allows for a nice low rumble at highway speed and sounds off pretty good when I get after it
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^^ after removing the can I cut it into 3 pieces
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Then I removed all of the inner pipes from the mid section and welded in a cross tube connecting the regular inlet with the front baffle chamber, in a sense this is the way it was before but with a much shorter and faster route
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I then gutted the pipe out of the rear chamber/tip area, this WAS the first baffle chamber the exhaust that the exhaust dumped into, then it would have entered another pipe and returned to the front chamber then through the middle chamber to exit, it was insane!
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^^Here's an inside view of a stock XB can, ya can totally see why it was so quiet, the mod I did seems to be working great, sounds great and still uses the exhaust valve....
...My next move was to delete the big ass Mickey Mouse mirrors, they were hideous and I couldn't see a damn thing in them anyway, the vibration from the big V-twin rendered the stock mirrors useless(everything was just one big blurr), the new bar end mirrors work out great! Much better to look at and in
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Stock^^
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)So when I first bought the thing I was shocked at how quiet it was, really all you could hear is a little puff from the pipe...WTF!! This thing is a 1200! It says 1203 Thunderstorm on the crank case! It was embarrassing!!.....so I went to work researching various buell stock exhaust mods most of which were just to gut the can and weld it back together, there was a couple involving some baffles, and then the one I settled on that easily maintains decent back pressure yet allows for a nice low rumble at highway speed and sounds off pretty good when I get after it
^^ after removing the can I cut it into 3 pieces
Then I removed all of the inner pipes from the mid section and welded in a cross tube connecting the regular inlet with the front baffle chamber, in a sense this is the way it was before but with a much shorter and faster route
I then gutted the pipe out of the rear chamber/tip area, this WAS the first baffle chamber the exhaust that the exhaust dumped into, then it would have entered another pipe and returned to the front chamber then through the middle chamber to exit, it was insane!
^^Here's an inside view of a stock XB can, ya can totally see why it was so quiet, the mod I did seems to be working great, sounds great and still uses the exhaust valve....
...My next move was to delete the big ass Mickey Mouse mirrors, they were hideous and I couldn't see a damn thing in them anyway, the vibration from the big V-twin rendered the stock mirrors useless(everything was just one big blurr), the new bar end mirrors work out great! Much better to look at and in
Stock^^
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