Nice work! Flows well with the bike.

 

Very cool! Pretty slick idea with off the shelf pipe parts, I assume you're going to wrap it when done?

 

Looking good!

I did something similar with a short pipe after 2-1 collector. Have a TTI in there for power, and to deepen the tone a bit....it is loud...I like it.

Are you looking to muffle the sound some, or just looking for the best power along with some good volume?

I used BBQ rattle can paint and then Titanium wrap. That was about 8000 miles ago and is holding up well.

Very cool what you're doing.

 

Thanks, you make some good points. I thought about paying a shop to weld them up, but the pin holes are easy to find, I decided at least for now to just check them for pin holes and weld up any I find.


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Thanks. I thought it would be a cool project to try with just off the shelf low buck parts. I bought this one as a low buck experiment.


Thanks. For right now I have a couple of 4" can opener baffles I scavenged from the old 2-2 exhaust I'm using. I put them in each side half of the collector. In the 2-2 they gave me enough back pressure and didn't sound too bad so I wanted to see how they would do in the application.
Black BBQ paint is my friend lol. I actually got the idea to do my own exhaust the other day from your bike. I was looking at another thread where you had posted it and I wanted to see what I could do. I keep going back ad forth between titanium wrap, white wrap, and my usual black wrap painted over again with black bbq paint.
In keeping with the low buck theme I already have a couple of half rolls of black wrap in the cabinet, but may splurge and get some titanium wrap.

On a different note, reliability is also the theme and I need a new battery. I was looking at the lithium batteries on your website last night. Which size should I get for the 1200 Sportster?

 

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Cool, I'm betting you're going to like the sound and look! I wish the titanium came in black.

I am running a 12 cell in mine. It has higher than stock compression, and is a 1250cc. No problems, but it does hesitate the first 1-2 seconds, then cranks right over. The 16 cell is what is recommended for the 1200.

I am very happy with mine...really small, and never a lick of trouble. When I was doing some work on mine, I took the battery out and set it on the shelf for 8 months. When I had the bike back together with the new tight engine in it, popped it in and that new tight engine right over. BUT...It's a far cry from a low buck solution.

Don't know if you've heard my pipes...here's a vid...nothing in there except the TTI at a 45* angle, which is quite a bit louder than the 90*.

 

Cool, thanks. That sounds really good.

 

Looking good so far.

 

Thanks, the parts from Summit are showing out for delivery so hopefully I'll have the mock up finished tonight along with a bracket fabbed then finish welding it up along with painting and wrapping tomorrow. I almost forgot I need to run in and get some new exhaust gaskets for the final install.

 

Parts came and final mock up and tacking is complete. I finished about 1/3 of the final welding and decided to take a break for a little bit since it's about 94 outside and about 10 degrees hotter in the workshop. It was frigging hot welding. LOL

I probably could have sucked the upper pipe in 1-1.5" closer to the engine, but decided not to since it made it look like the exhaust was falling over; it just looked odd.

Mock up complete photo.

 

Hell yeah!!!! Just wait til people ask where you bought it...

I love answering that question for 1 offs that I've made!