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Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Sep 2013
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From: Great State of Canada
I just had this interesting email exchange with D&D Exhausts:
Jim G:
have the D&D Low Cat exhaust on my 2014 HD Breakout. My riding buddies are complaining that riding with me is not fun because of the volume and sharpness of my exhaust! (They are mostly cruisers with stock exhausts, and I’d like to keep riding with them!). Is there a way I can change the baffle in my Low Cat to a quieter one and/or mellower one?
D&D:
James
Sorry but that is the Louvered Wrapped baffle witch is the quietest baffle we make for any of our exhaust. There is not really not any way to make that baffle quieter.
Jim G:
So I cannot, for example, stuff steel wool into the end of the pipe, or other DIY mod either?
D&D:
Jim
I guess you could but that is not something we have done. The way that baffle is packed from the inter-core to muffler housing there is no room for more packing. Any thing you do to the core will restrict the flow and change the performance of the pipe.
Sigh . . .
Jim G
Jim G:
have the D&D Low Cat exhaust on my 2014 HD Breakout. My riding buddies are complaining that riding with me is not fun because of the volume and sharpness of my exhaust! (They are mostly cruisers with stock exhausts, and I’d like to keep riding with them!). Is there a way I can change the baffle in my Low Cat to a quieter one and/or mellower one?
D&D:
James
Sorry but that is the Louvered Wrapped baffle witch is the quietest baffle we make for any of our exhaust. There is not really not any way to make that baffle quieter.
Jim G:
So I cannot, for example, stuff steel wool into the end of the pipe, or other DIY mod either?
D&D:
Jim
I guess you could but that is not something we have done. The way that baffle is packed from the inter-core to muffler housing there is no room for more packing. Any thing you do to the core will restrict the flow and change the performance of the pipe.
Sigh . . .
Jim G
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 2,710
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From: Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
This last Saturday, most of them participated in a local kids' toys charity ride that included 1300 registered bikers and a total of over 1500 actual bikes, and brought the entire population of Port Alberni out to watch the parade ride, with full police escort and a family event at the end of the 45 minute ride.
I'm in awe of their energy and degree of participation when some are in their late seventies and early eighties! One of them, who is 85 years of age right now, still shoots long range .308 rifle matches at 600 yards!
Jim G
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From: Great State of Canada
Hey, these guys are card carrying, dew-rag wearing, redneck former truckers, one of whom was actually a senior honcho in an outlaw gang! They are however "senior in years" (WAY older than me), and despite arthritis and serious enough former motorcycle accidents to have required a year or more of rehab, they ride enough compared to me to make me feel like a real wimp, despite their having "mellowed" with age!
This last Saturday, most of them participated in a local kids' toys charity ride that included 1300 registered bikers and a total of over 1500 actual bikes, and brought the entire population of Port Alberni out to watch the parade ride, with full police escort and a family event at the end of the 45 minute ride.
I'm in awe of their energy and degree of participation when some are in their late seventies and early eighties! One of them, who is 85 years of age right now, still shoots long range .308 rifle matches at 600 yards!
Jim G
This last Saturday, most of them participated in a local kids' toys charity ride that included 1300 registered bikers and a total of over 1500 actual bikes, and brought the entire population of Port Alberni out to watch the parade ride, with full police escort and a family event at the end of the 45 minute ride.
I'm in awe of their energy and degree of participation when some are in their late seventies and early eighties! One of them, who is 85 years of age right now, still shoots long range .308 rifle matches at 600 yards!
Jim G
.Hope you know I was kidding bro,,, smiley face and all,,.
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 2,710
Likes: 528
From: Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
Hmmm,, precision rifle shooter ! That fellow there will answer any reloading questions you have too. I got all geared up but what with schedules and limited opportunity I never got to shoot a PR match in anger,,, only IPSC & 3 Gun. Anyhow your reloading VooDoo guy is that man right there .
Hope you know I was kidding bro,,, smiley face and all,,.
.Hope you know I was kidding bro,,, smiley face and all,,.
And by the way,we had a Hells Angels rally here a couple months back. No kidding. So many of them I could not count.
Canada has more texture to it than most Americans know.
Jim G
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Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 2,925
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From: Texas
Hey, these guys are card carrying, dew-rag wearing, redneck former truckers, one of whom was actually a senior honcho in an outlaw gang! They are however "senior in years" (WAY older than me), and despite arthritis and serious enough former motorcycle accidents to have required a year or more of rehab, they ride enough compared to me to make me feel like a real wimp, despite their having "mellowed" with age!
This last Saturday, most of them participated in a local kids' toys charity ride that included 1300 registered bikers and a total of over 1500 actual bikes, and brought the entire population of Port Alberni out to watch the parade ride, with full police escort and a family event at the end of the 45 minute ride.
I'm in awe of their energy and degree of participation when some are in their late seventies and early eighties! One of them, who is 85 years of age right now, still shoots long range .308 rifle matches at 600 yards!
Jim G
This last Saturday, most of them participated in a local kids' toys charity ride that included 1300 registered bikers and a total of over 1500 actual bikes, and brought the entire population of Port Alberni out to watch the parade ride, with full police escort and a family event at the end of the 45 minute ride.
I'm in awe of their energy and degree of participation when some are in their late seventies and early eighties! One of them, who is 85 years of age right now, still shoots long range .308 rifle matches at 600 yards!
Jim G
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 2,710
Likes: 528
From: Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
Yes, but who wants to always be at the back? One advantage of my exhaust is that I NEVER seem to be tailgaited by cagers!
Jim G
Jim G
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 2,710
Likes: 528
From: Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
Oh I don't want to change pipes! That would cost too much, especially since I would also then need a custom re-tune. I was hoping to find a simple solution that could just take some of the sharpness out of the sound. Overall sound level is not all that loud - it's just that sharpness that is bothering my riding buddies.
Jim G
Jim G