Changed my mind and ordered a replacement pipe from American Customs. Figured the lack of headaches and welding skills and the time to drive into town and find an open exhaust shop on a Sat. it will pay for it's self at $169.00

 

From my understanding, the CAT was inside the muffler on the 09

 

Thanks for the info

 

Every time i see the inside of one of these catted pipes i am just amazed that they even start, let alone run.

Im glad mine boxed up in the attic..

Good job, and Ride on.......

 

cat was in headpipe in cali and international bikes in '09 according to HD but my canadian '09 did not have one.

 

Great slide show milf rider! I am looking at doing this as well.

 

hello everyone.milf great write up.ok here is what i got going on i have a 2011 roadglide ultra i just bought a fuel pack.should i leave the head pipe w/cat and see what happens or not?.also i was thinking of gutting out my stock mufflers will i lose any back prusser?or what ideas does everyone here have what should i do.fund are alittle tight but i like to get a little more sound with what i have.

 

i also did the same thing for mine. i found a 2-1-2 on craigslist for 100 beans for my '10 SG. i guess you can say i had a little OCD and didn't like the single pipe. i took a "sawsall" to it as soon as i got home. after removing the CAT, i took it down the street to a local welder and he tig welded it back together. sounds a lot better now since i got rid of the "weed wacker" sound. a buddy in Tx wanted my old one complete exhaust so i did the same to the old header before sending it to him. really easy to do and you cant even tell i did it.

Cep

 

I like this approach better than cutting the pipe in half. I had a stock head pipe in my garage that came off a 2011 Limited I just traded. Been wanting to do something about the heat on my new CVO Road Glide so I decided to have at it last night. Probably took me a little over an hour to make the cut and gut the cat. I'll get it welded later this week and swap it out this weekend. Not a whole lot of effort and very little money for the same results a buying a new head pipe. I used a 90 degree variable speed hand grinder with a 4 1/2" x 1/16" metal cutting disc. The disc was only a couple dollars at Home Depot. Pretty pleased with the results. Thanks for the post, it got me off my ***!

 

I just did this yesterday to my 2011 RK ...prior I had added 3.5" Rinehart slipons...a SE airbox and had the download done at the dealer. Eventhough the air cleaner and ECM flash opened up the pipes and the engine was breathing noticably better ...this mod gave VERY noticable gains in performance. The bike is quite a bit louder and has a bit more decell " Rumble " ( not backfire ) ... when you hit the throttle you immediately get response as opposed to that delay you get as the backpressure builds at the cat .. the bike still runs great and I am glad I did it ... Thanks again for the Idea ( and cash savings ) ... Mark