Hi everyone,

I am looking at used CVO Road King and wonder if the stock exhaust is different (better flow/louder) than the ones that come on standard Road King?
I find the standard 103 Road King exhaust too quiet.
Thank you.

 

I'm not sure I'm any help but the CVO mufflers were used to remove the baffles and add Fullsac CVO power core baffles.
https://fullsac.com/product-category...view_mode=list
You could call Steve and he could tell you. I've ran his baffles in CVO cans on twin cam touring bikes and my seat of the pants dyno told me the bike ran almost as well as a Fat Cat 2-1 but was much quieter. My engine was stock just added the CVO mufflers with the Fullsac baffles.

 

CVO bikes still used the same catalytic converter head pipes as the other touring bikes. CVO mufflers were a touch louder. The mufflers alone will make no difference in performance.

 

Fullsac baffles in CVO mufflers sound good. On big in builds they can support big power. My 19 was built to 130" inches and made 163 HP and 167 torque. It was a Fullsac head pipe and his 2.25 baffles in CVO mufflers. Sounded great.

 

Thanks for the info.
Where I am from, the muffler cannot be altered (when inspected visually). The police here actually look into the baffle to check.
Is there a way to enhance the sound without being "spotted"?

 

Removed the cat, only marginally louder.

 

I have a 2014 CVO Road King that I bought new. The stock exhaust was terrible…way too quite and too hot thanks to the cat in the headpipe collector. I cut the cat out of the stock headpipe, welded it closed and painted the headpipe with high temp paint. I also removed the stock baffles and packing in the mufflers and put in fullsac 2.25” baffles. It sounds great with these changes. Very deep sound and just the right volume. A few years later I did a 117 Stage 4 build and fixed all the design flaws in the 110 engine. The cams and compression bump added to the sound but it sounded great even before the build with just the exhaust mods.

 

Wish we could replace the baffle here.
I am sure your bike is a Blast to ride!

 

Yeah, fun bike and what I love about the Road King is its versatility. Put on the windshield and tourpak in less than 5 minutes and your ready for a trip. Take them off and your ready for cruising into your favorite waterhole. The bike draws a crowd wherever I ride it. I kept waiting for Harley to release another CVO Road King with the M8 to give me a reason to trade but it hasn’t happened and now that it looks like it will be going away or get the new bodywork, I won’t trade.

 

Very beautiful in Red!