Big Radius or Big Shot
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Big Radius or Big Shot
My dad has the VH Big shots on his Fatboy and man I love the way they sound. I am looking for an exhaust for my Night Train and want something that sounds just as good if not better than the Big Shots. Will the Big Radius do that for me??? I absolutely love the way they look, but hope they sound just as good.
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RE: Big Radius or Big Shot
That's a tough one without listening to both bikes. I have the Big Radius and love them. IMO the BR might be a tad louder and crisper. When I snap the throttle...they do "crack". See if you can hear them on a bike...they are not cheap.
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RE: Big Radius or Big Shot
SInce I am into performance the big radius are a LOOKS ONLY pipe. That are worse than short shots to tune a efi bike. Add any perfromance items and it gets worse, they work ok on a stock bike but that is it . Even on a stock bike they give up a large amount of tq. In fact they offer nothing over a set of stock pipes. This is not my opinion but countless dyno pulls we tried baffles in out, partial baffles and could not get the give back what the stock set up had. They have a bad cackle on decel that some love but others hate. Not picking on teh V&H's most of the pipes that are of this design are for looks only. EFI bikes need back pressure.
The wicked bros pipes are uless to make any power at all, WE had a 107 t/c with them and could not break 90/90. He had a set of big radius that we swapped we went to 97 hp and lost tq. Swapped in a thunder header and the numbers jumped to 115hp and 121 tq. This was not just a pipe swap we tuned them best we could on each pipe. SO results are as close as you can get.
There are plenty of pipes out there that really give you perfromance. One of the best set up and bang for your buck is a set of SE II slip on's these we make some great numbers, maybe not stylish or the super loud sound but hard to argue with honest numbers. I guess I fail to see why anyone would spend hard earned cash on engine upgrade to then buy a set of pipes that are taking away TQ/HP???? Why even build the engine then when you spend to get a extra 20/20 and the pipes cost you over half of that?? Just my two cents, but being that I run a dyno almost daily I see all kinds of set ups some work and some don't.
I am not bashing any brand of pipe or promting one either only pointing out the fact's with dyno sheets to back it up.
The wicked bros pipes are uless to make any power at all, WE had a 107 t/c with them and could not break 90/90. He had a set of big radius that we swapped we went to 97 hp and lost tq. Swapped in a thunder header and the numbers jumped to 115hp and 121 tq. This was not just a pipe swap we tuned them best we could on each pipe. SO results are as close as you can get.
There are plenty of pipes out there that really give you perfromance. One of the best set up and bang for your buck is a set of SE II slip on's these we make some great numbers, maybe not stylish or the super loud sound but hard to argue with honest numbers. I guess I fail to see why anyone would spend hard earned cash on engine upgrade to then buy a set of pipes that are taking away TQ/HP???? Why even build the engine then when you spend to get a extra 20/20 and the pipes cost you over half of that?? Just my two cents, but being that I run a dyno almost daily I see all kinds of set ups some work and some don't.
I am not bashing any brand of pipe or promting one either only pointing out the fact's with dyno sheets to back it up.
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