I have a 2006 harley sportster 883, dont want to spend alot of money on a high performance exhaust because its just a starter bike and i plan to step up to a bigger one next season, but in the mean time i would like to make the bike much louder by removing baffle and silencer. does anyone know how to do this or have any tips/tricks?
Joe

 

Simple. Remove the bolt that holds the baffle in the slip-on and then use some expanded needle nosed pliers to pull them out. You can leave them out,or modify them by drilling holes in the baffles.
Welcome to the forums.

 

Instead of removing hole baffle take 12" extension and 1" hole saw stick in middle of pipes when u feel it stop drill .take couple min sounds great plus some air still goes threw baffle .

 

A set of $150 slip ons isnt much money at all and will sound great.

Just a note, not all great sounding slip ons are a lot of money.

 

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What kind of mufflers do you have? Stock will require a hole saw , search for removing baffles on a sportster on you tube.

 

Where can you find the bolt that holds the baffle in the slip on? i've been looking around but not sure where that is.

 

If you remove the entire baffle, you will lose bottom end torque, your bike will be a dog.

Drill out the center plug and you will have loud when you roll-on throttle, and relatively quiet when idling or cruising, and maintain good bottom end grunt since the baffle still creates back pressure being a smaller diameter than the head pipe.

 

do you have to remove the entire exhaust to drill it out or can you do it while still attached? how big of a bit and how deep?

 

I couldnt get mine out

Looked up my pipe a few inches and the tibe had a bend in it. Girlfriends mom laid it down and didnt tell me.