I would like to see what kind of pipes people have had made or made themself

 

I took a bub lakester and modded it... not custom 1 off completely but my tuner would have killed me if i brought him a completely un tested pipe for tuning, would have been a nightmare... here is what we did

got the upsweep


tacked it up


welded the new tip on






now for the mount

Stock:


modded it









powder coated the mount


powder coated the shields


custom 2 tone powder the muffler


all done and on the bike






even works great all bagged up

 

at the time i didn't have the 500 plus extra dollars for exhaust so i fabbed one out of a 2010 roadglide to fit my FB.. so even though its a harley part, it wasn't intended for a soft tail and it put the muffler under the rear floorboard so it wouldn't cook the mrs foot or ankle... i found a new take off set on here from a member and commenced to cutting, drilling and welding... and VIOLA' poor mans 2-1 exhaust...

for that huge *** muffler to look halfway normal i needed to cut the pipe 7". it just so happens the 7" i needed to remove was the length of the cat converter in the head pipe.

a pic of the stock RG exhaust..





main pipe with cat converter removed...







mounting stud welded to muffler. fabbed bracket to mount to orig bracket, just in case i ever need to go back to stock.








one of the O2 bungs welded in place. i made these up out of some old o2 bungs cut from old cats and bicycle fork tubes.







finished product..

 

that looks great! how does it sound?

 

Thanks, the orig slipon was too dam quiet. i sent it out to american custom exhaust, they're a sponsor here and did a hell'uva job on it. its got a nice deep rumble, but not to loud to **** off the neighbors. when you crack the throttle its all *****.. from all the youtube clips i have seen/heard it sounds just as good as any other 2-1 high dollar exhaust. the best thing is, i only have $200 into it including the muff work from ACE. One day when i don't have anything else to do, (yeah right) i would like to open up the collector to muff diameter a bit. it seems to be choked down too much.

 

Looks sweet man, really like that