Muflers,.. Standard units ... should I drill them?

NZred · Post by **NZred** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 11:56 am

I have an 03' with standard pipes and mufflers and would like to keep that look. I am concidering drilling a small hole in the baffle in the middle of the muffler to get a little more sound, but don't want it to craclkle or whistle.
Has anyone try this before??

WayneM · Post by **WayneM** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 2:16 pm

Not that specifically, but you can just take out the internals. Where did I see it now - buggered if I can remember now (God! Every day I get closer to me 33rd birthday I forget something else!)

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:52 am

I did it to mine, sounds so much better than with the baffels in, my mates got some micron race cans and they sound as good as that, the main benefit is that if you get stopped by the cossers youve got a perfectly legal set of cans on the bike that are for road use

Ive got a link to an excellent guide for doing it, ill put it up when i get to work tomorrow.

Right take a lookie here

http://webpages.charter.net/gnemish/

NZred · Post by **NZred** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:48 am

Thank you Andrew.. just what I needed..

UPDATE: I looked at the construction,.. and chose not to cut out the back of the muffler.

Instead.. I have put a very long 3/8" rod with a sharp point into the mufflers,.. and punched two holes through the baffle. one up & one down.
The top end performance has picked up and the exhaust tone has more punch and a crisper note.

Enough for me..

for now.. as the law has resently changed here regarding exhaust noise.
The sale of after market mufflers for bike has halted completely.