I'm thinking about removing the baffles from my Reinhart slipons on my 09 SG.
I would like my exhaust to be a little louder. Can anyone tell me their experiences, pros/cons with doin this mod and how hard they are to remove. Once again any input is greatly appreciated.

 

Rinehart makes a performance baffle and that's probably a better choice than just removing the current baffles. Their supposed to be louder than the stock baffles.

I think (!), if you remove the baffles, and therefore have a straight open exhaust with no back pressure at all, you'll need some performance work done to the motor.

I noticed a decrease in low end grunt after putting my Rineharts on. Nothing terrible but....

But I think I'm going to sell my Tds and go for a quieter system.

 

I agree with Yachtmans call. I too am saying bye bye to the Rineharts and going with a quieter system.

But, to each his own. Removing the baffles is quite easy. First off I personlly think it's a little more difficult if the bike has been sitting for a while or is ice cold. I'd warm up the bike just a little and then let it cool down to touch. Next remove the three allen heads that hold on the tips. If the tips are stubborn to come off you can tap them EASILY with a RUBBER mallet side to side till they back off of the muffler. The tips actually act to center the baffle in the muffler so sometimes the baffle will just come out along with the tip. The "front" of the baffle is tapered end that is basically a compression fitting. But chances are that the baffle will remain in the muffler once you remove the tip. First try to just grab it with your fingers and wiggle it free. If that doesn't work, you can grab the edge of the baffle with some vicegrips so you can get better "wiggle" torque and it should come free. In the very worst case you might have to use a slide hammer and hook it onto one of the interior spiral cuts and that'll do it.

Heres the tip of the day. If the tip's won't come off easily, use the rubber maellet tap method. Do not try to pry the tip back with a flathead screwdriver. As temping as that may seem it will mark up your muffler. gOOD

 

Not for their slip-on muffler, which is what is mentioned in the first post. You only have baffle choices if you have the Rinehart True Dual system.

 

I did not know that. Thanks. My post above is related to my experience replacing baffles on the True Dual mufflers so I can't say that the same would apply to the slip-on's.

 

Try Big City Thunder - they make baffles for just about everything.

 

I think that Neckball was referring to my post.

I apologize as I also was thinking of my conversations with Rinehart and didn't realize they didn't make other baffle sizes for the slip ons.

My bad

 

thanks for the replies everyone. I tried to remove the baffles from the slip ons just to see how easy it was to do. I couldn't budge em. These are brand new slip ons so I guess they aren't made for removal. The bike has about 500miles on them so hopefully they get louder once bike is broken in.

 

I think if you remove those baffles it will be loud as L!

 

it wont run right youll loose all kinds of low end tourqe and might even cook some things from running lean