I've been trying to find what I feel is a good sounding slip on for my 2007 FXDL. I tried the V&H's and now the Rush straight cut slip ons with the 1.75 baffle. They DO have a deeper sound than the Vance & Hines mufflers, but they whistle ever so slightly on decel. It doesn't seem to be a joint leaking...sounds like it's coming from the end of the muffler. Anyone else have this sound with theirs?

Thanks,
Russ

 

I have V&H BSS on my 07 Fatboy- I hear my pipes whistle when I start it up and blip the throttle.... ? Who know why this happens.
Hope that the Tmax unit that I got yesterday will improve overall performance and take out the whistle.

 

Well,
I'm playing around with these things right now and this is what I found...
I decided to take the baffles out and take a look at them. They are pretty much your standard louvered baffle, but they have packing around them. The packing was so loose that it wasn't even completely wraped around the core. I just ran the bike with NO packing and just the baffles for the heck of it, and it actually sounded better.

Right now, I'm waiting for it to cool down and then I'm going to re-wrap the baffles tighter and see how that sounds.

I've only ever had one other pipe whistle on me and that was the type with the tongue style baffle when I opened it up too much. I kept knocking the tongue down and it sound better and better until I got to the point where the tongue was almost flat...and then it started to whistle. I think they were Khrome Werks mufflers. Nothing against them though...it was my fault for trying to open them up too much.

 

So what does the overall quality of the RUSH seem to you?

 

I have no problem at all with the quality. They seem to be top notch. I'm just really picky when it comes to sound. I may just send them down the ebay road with less than 5 miles on them and take the loss.

 

I have rush straight cut 1.75 baffles and was horrified when I first heard the chirping, I've heard this sound on manybikes. I had a set of cycle shacks on my evo did the same thing. A lot of time it's stock mufflers with the baffles punched out. Mine gets better as the bike warms up. Over all I like the Rush mufflers.For the money I paid I can live with a little chirping, most people don't notice it. Best bang for the buck I've found.

 

I have the 2 1/4 rush slipons on my Road King and dont hear any of the whistle you refer to they sound awsome. Though they were a bit quiet for my taste at first. I removed the packing and now they sound great.

 

I have the Rush Slip ons w/ 1.75" baffles and think they sound tinny and cheap...will be taking them off soon !