FatBoy Passnger Boards/Exhaust?
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FatBoy Passnger Boards/Exhaust?
Been saving my pennies, getting ready to pull the trigger on my first performance upgrade exhaust, air and tune. Heres the situation, 12 FatBoy:
1. Wife wants passenger boards. Got a pair from the dealer, didnt fit. Dealer says they wont fit without changing exhaust. Not 100% sure I believe it but we double-checked the part number and we had the rightones.
2. I really like the look of the stock exhaust, its unique to the FatBoy. Ive seen some with V & H Big Shots slash cut. Could be swayed to go the way. Dealer had a used one on the floor and fired it up for me. Thats the sound Im looking for.
1. Wife wants passenger boards. Got a pair from the dealer, didnt fit. Dealer says they wont fit without changing exhaust. Not 100% sure I believe it but we double-checked the part number and we had the rightones.
2. I really like the look of the stock exhaust, its unique to the FatBoy. Ive seen some with V & H Big Shots slash cut. Could be swayed to go the way. Dealer had a used one on the floor and fired it up for me. Thats the sound Im looking for.
Need advice on: Boards anyone else have the same issue? Exhaust slip-ons vs complete change out? Pros/cons, one give better performance than the other, recommendations? I have zero knowledge of the differences of what goes on inside the exhaust other than they all sound different and there's baffles in there!
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Well for one the after market exhaust will help to cool things down a bit because your losing the cat's inside the mufflers. Also add a hi flow air cleaner and a tuner to cool it down even more while adding some extra power.
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From: Montclair, CA.
HD floor board adjustable mounts.
Picked up a pair of HD adjustable passenger floor board mounts on flee bay, HD no longer makes them, go figure as they are great, so I can adjust them to fit the wife. We also run the Bassani Road Rage 2-1 exhaust system and it sits a little lower than the stock exhaust so we don't have clearance problems, either way, with the stock pegs or the floor boards with or without the adjustable mounts. 
HD floorboards and a V&H Pro Pipe fit perfect on my 06 Fat Boy. I didn't like the how the stock exhaust pipes went between the peg/floorboard. Didn't want my wife getting burned riding on the back. I've been burned twice by the exhaust (slow learner so didn't catch on the first time) and both times it blistered bad (both times was being lazy and put the bike away in shorts after a long ride; one time the bike tipped and my leg got pinned against the wall and pipe until a muscled out of it, that took forever to heal). I'm not really into the whole performance thing with the 2:1 exhaust, I just like the look and sound.
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