I got to listen to a lot of M8 exhaust at Daytona over this past week, all the big players had M8's set up at their vendor tents. I must say the D+D billet cat won over everything I heard, that thing is legit! It was the only one I listened to that made me say "oh s#!t" when rev'd hard. Only downside......I said the same thing when he gave me the price including the ghost pipe!

 

What price were you quoted, and black or chrome?

 

$1099 chrome, $149 for tips (each), $389 for ghost pipe, free install at bike week.

 

Quick, did you hear any good slip ons? I’m really interested in buying slip ons this year.

 

Billet Cat is a good pipe for sure, have one on mine.

 

All of the S+S stuff sounded good, the new 2-1, mk45, and grand national's, the GN's had more of a traditional harley sound, kinda loud and raspy, the mk45 was pretty quite at idle but came alive with a very nice deep bark when rev'd. TAB was pretty good but not the best for my liking. The Vance and Hines stuff was pretty good as well, I wanted to hear their pro pipe on an M8 but they didn't have one, guy said they just installed one on a customer's bike earlier before I got there though. As you know, sound is very subjective so what I liked, you may think was crap but if the price was better I would have left with the D+D hands down.

 

Thanks Quik. I hope to make it out to some bike nights around here. I have spent some dough on cosmetics but performance parts are in the back of my mind. I will be buying them soon.

 

There was a rhinehart 4.5 inch muffler that sounded pretty good along with the v & h mufflers. The vendors have definitely geared up for the M8. Saw some scary stuff too, the magnaflow guy tried to sell my buddy a complete exhaust without any tuning adjustments of any kind!

 

Yeah a lot of the vendors seem very knowledgeable, some others, not so much.