Spanky Mon
Right now i just have cycle shack slip-ons, but have been looking at getting a more performance-oriented exhaust. Everybody tells me that Supertrapp would give me the biggest gains on my bike (a 10% gain would be plenty to make me happy, i'm not out to race anyone) but the only exhaust they make for the '02 sporty is basically a rice rocket pipe that comes up diagonally (an atrocity). I would really like to put their new XR 2:2 pipes on my bike, they make them for the '04-up sporty, but they also mention selling universal versions of the kit. I have a Tig welder and decent experience doing steel tubing, is this something i could do myself? Or have a guy i know who builds bikes, put it together for me? Or is the "universal" version still not compatable with the '02 sporty? I realize it's expensive, but if it really yields a 20% hp boost (according to their site) it's much cheaper than getting that out of engine work. Plus, later it won't be a bottleneck, for more upgrades.
So basically you're telling me that there is no power to be gained from switching from normal pipes, to a 2:1 system designed for performance? Because it seems to me that the number 1 thing people do to harleys is put better exhaust on, for the sound and also for performance.
And i'm not welding my own custom pipes from scratch. I just mean if Supertrapp makes their "universal" XR kit able to mount onto an '02 sporty, i'd have to do the welds on it.
I'm just suprised to hear that somebody who thinks they know anything about motorcycles thinks that the stock exhaust on a harley is going to perform the best.
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There is nothing special about making your own exhaust. As long as your total tube length is near the same, you should be ok. If you feel confident in the welding, just get the mufflers and make the brakets. I am a firm believer in do-it-yourself on motorcycles. A muffler is really a simple item if you follow basic rules, the biggest one is to make it long enough so that the reflective wave back into the exhaust valve does not happen so soon that it will prevent fuel from being dumped out the pipes at low RPM.
Just tune it a little afterward. Nothing to it.
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I was not suggesting making them from scratch, but you can fit any muffler on any bike with a little "persuasion." I was just saying that the little bit of welding you are talking about is probably fine. I would even go as far as saying that you might want to get the Supertrapp and do a pie cut, and weld it back together so it does not rise diagonally.
And, a stock harley pipe performing as good as aftermarket, is he kidding? Only better than "Crack Pipes" on a street bike. Harley engineers their pipes to please one customer, the Government. Same goes for the cams, the F/A ratio, and the timing.
There is nothing special about making your own exhaust. As long as your total tube length is near the same, you should be ok. If you feel confident in the welding, just get the mufflers and make the brakets. I am a firm believer in do-it-yourself on motorcycles. A muffler is really a simple item if you follow basic rules, the biggest one is to make it long enough so that the reflective wave back into the exhaust valve does not happen so soon that it will prevent fuel from being dumped out the pipes at low RPM.
Just tune it a little afterward. Nothing to it.
Added:
I was not suggesting making them from scratch, but you can fit any muffler on any bike with a little "persuasion." I was just saying that the little bit of welding you are talking about is probably fine. I would even go as far as saying that you might want to get the Supertrapp and do a pie cut, and weld it back together so it does not rise diagonally.
And, a stock harley pipe performing as good as aftermarket, is he kidding? Only better than "Crack Pipes" on a street bike. Harley engineers their pipes to please one customer, the Government. Same goes for the cams, the F/A ratio, and the timing.
Why is he in love with his bike over us?
LM
He spends more time with it than his children and recently paid 5 grand for beer can looking exhaust pipes when i could have had a diamond ring for our anniversary and the kids needed new clothes for school. I went outside in a new hot nighty while he was working on it and he told me to shove off but then when it was all said and done he wants me on the back for the big ride. Should i divorce him and let him have his bike or stay with him for the kids?
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well to tell ya the truth most guys now these days are like that! my dad was like that for a while and it only got worse until i got fed up with it and yelled and screamed at him about how i felt i told him he was never there for the family cause beer and cars was what he loved and i told him either he changes or my mom, my lil sister and me are out of here and i would never talk to him again and i told him ya cause my lil sister would also grow up without a dad and i asked him if he really wanted that.if he really wanted to be alone,with out his love and without his kids so my suggestion from this story is to sit him down and tel hi how you feel if he goes to walk away you have to start getting serious and yell and treat him like a child tell him to sit down or you will leave with the kids and he wont see them that much ever again...i know you may not want to but you got to think whats best for those kids!
well to tell ya the truth most guys now these days are like that! my dad was like that for a while and it only got worse until i got fed up with it and yelled and screamed at him about how i felt i told him he was never there for the family cause beer and cars was what he loved and i told him either he changes or my mom, my lil sister and me are out of here and i would never talk to him again and i told him ya cause my lil sister would also grow up without a dad and i asked him if he really wanted that.if he really wanted to be alone,with out his love and without his kids so my suggestion from this story is to sit him down and tel hi how you feel if he goes to walk away you have to start getting serious and yell and treat him like a child tell him to sit down or you will leave with the kids and he wont see them that much ever again...i know you may not want to but you got to think whats best for those kids!
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