Hi,

I have straight drag pipes at my Sportster (1992, 1200) now and i want a new exhaust, mainly for the look's but also these pipes are in the way of my new forward controls..

I also like the V-Twin Manufacturing Stepped, slash cut drag pipes. They look an awful lot like the Bassani Pro Street and both are stepped with the same pipe diameter.
Do you guys have any reviews on either the V-Twin or Bassani Pro street? Performance and sound..
The bassani's are according to the sales text made for street bikes and to add low end torque (opposite of normal drag pipes).

As a side note, I've also been thinking a lot about getting the Danmoto since the price is very fair and the performance is great. But i don't like the looks of the one that fits my year and it's not fitted with forward controls. I've seen the version for 2004- fitted on older sportsters like mine with forward controls. So that might be possible.

 

 

Great looking bike. What did you use to lay the shocks down? Looks like some kind of mount extension on the swingarm?

John

 

To me, it appears to be an adjustable lowering "kit", similar to this:


T.

 

Thank's...
It's called lowering blocks.

 

I know that, I've had a set installed since '13...
Your picture made it somewhat hard to see though.
Here's a pic of mine:




T.

 

I've also been curios about the Pro Streets vs the V-twin Slash cuts. I saw a set of what I assumed to be the V-twins on a bike near work the other day, the welds were pretty ugly, but if you wrapped 'em it wouldn't be noticeable.

 

You may want to look into ground clearance as well. I thought I remembered seeing some reviews where that pipe configuration scraped a bit early. Especially on low bikes like yours.

 

Go with the V&H Straightshots. Basically the same thing. A stepped header with a removable baffle and the heatshield that wraps almost all the way around make it appear as 1 diameter pipe. No ugly welds. Remove the baffle if you want tho they're plenty loud with them. Or replace with baffle of your choice.