Exhaust 911

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Fellas-

Attached is a picture of my Interstate exhaust-I just bought the bike and it is my first Valkyrie. The prior owner drilled them out, apparantely.

I have read a whole bunch of threads on the dreaded exhaust topic. Given what I have, can I salvage them and quiet it down? I read where some of the guys pack the ends with special steel wool to quiet it down-is that feasible from where I am starting from?

My business partner might want to trade exhausts from his standard-can I switch the final pieces to keep the same Interstate look?

TIA!

SE

[hubcapsc]

It looks like your piggies have been cut, and your baffles drilled out.

The piggies on STD/Tourer pipes are of a different configuration than
the Interstate ones, so you can't swap the tips... without cutting the
piggies :-) ...

As you have read a bunch of past muffler posts, I'd say I like the idea
of MarkT's piggy-plates and also the ideas of some of the folks
who have plugged drilled-out baffles and re-extended piggies from
nubs...

I cut my piggies and extended them with straight pipes that
come to the ends of my triple tips...







-Mike

[MarkT]

I take it, was you who emailed.  Yep that's the "ragnar cut".  Very bad idea.  Not reversible and obnoxious. My Silencer mod will provide the same racket but is reversible.  Requires getting a pair of truck stacks.  As I said - but for others - I can provide silencers (until I run out) but don't sell stacks w/o a M2W glasspack mod.  Reason being, stacks have become harder to get so not worth it to me - they have become a "loss leader" in merchant terms.  Thanks to Biden for that - paying workers to sit at home and collect unemployment so the stack factories can't fill their jobs.  So supply is down and prices up on stacks.  See if you can find them at truck stops like iowa80.com.  Yep I have SOME stacks but are reserved for pipe jobs.

This is what silencers look like.  The packing I recommended to go upstream of the silencer "SS wool" is Stainless Steel wool, not "special steel wool".  So it won't rust.  Amazon sells it.

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Thanks fellas!

Still trying to get her sorted...

More on that soon!

SE

[Warlock]

Fellas-

Attached is a picture of my Interstate exhaust-I just bought the bike and it is my first Valkyrie. The prior owner drilled them out, apparantely.

I have read a whole bunch of threads on the dreaded exhaust topic. Given what I have, can I salvage them and quiet it down? I read where some of the guys pack the ends with special steel wool to quiet it down-is that feasible from where I am starting from?

My business partner might want to trade exhausts from his standard-can I switch the final pieces to keep the same Interstate look?

TIA!

SE

That is what is called the Ragnar cut. I use to run it years ago. Only way to fix it is cut the whole end off 7 1/8 inch. Buy some truck stacks and buy a set of silencers from Mark T and install the silencers in the end of the truck stacks.
David

[DeathWishBikerDude]

You guys just need to buy a complete spare bike.
Seriously..for under $5000 you get bags, windshield hardware, exhaust, pegs and other accessories..plus a spare engine..Im on bike #4..lmfao..

[srelegante]

You guys just need to buy a complete spare bike.
Seriously..for under $5000 you get bags, windshield hardware, exhaust, pegs and other accessories..plus a spare engine..Im on bike #4..lmfao..

I like your thinking!