Just header pipe?
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Opinions are like butholes (everyone's got one) so here's another one, take your muffs off, install lollipops far enough forward you can plug the hole with a short bolt and put the mufs back on if it does'nt work out. You will need at least one inch or inch and a quarter solid lollipops to restore the back pressure you lost by removing the muffs. Wala! Poor mans short shots. Don't be afraid to experiment, have fun.
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This may be stupid, may be cool. I don't know & that's why I'm asking! Has anybody removed they're stock slip-ons & ran just the header pipe? I guess it'd be similar to a set of short drags but don't know enough about the stocks pipes. Is there enough support w/out the stock slip-ons? Sound? I kinda wasted mine by trying to drill them out. My bikes a 1200 48. Thanks.
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Road Master
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Opinions are like butholes (everyone's got one) so here's another one, take your muffs off, install lollipops far enough forward you can plug the hole with a short bolt and put the mufs back on if it does'nt work out. You will need at least one inch or inch and a quarter solid lollipops to restore the back pressure you lost by removing the muffs. Wala! Poor mans short shots. Don't be afraid to experiment, have fun.
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Thanks for that input. I haven't really been able to 'foresee' the look of it. I'm gonna see if I can find some pic's.
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After a lot of reading on several forums I'm going to try this way. I think there are waaaaaaay too many people who are too quickly to spout off with "you won't have any mid-range power, it'll sound like ****"etc. who have never even dealt w/this situation. Not pointing fingers @ anyone here cuz I don't know who's really tried it & who's just spouting off! I read some dyno reports w/drags( with & w/out 'lollipops')& from what I've read most of these spouters are incorrect. No it's not as much HP as 2 into 1's BUT I really, really don't like that look(crotch rocket looking) and I refuse to dump that much coin into a set of pipes. If anyone has done this I'd like to hear your experienced opinion. This will be just till my old lady lets me buy some good pipes, not forever.
Why ask for an opinion then trash the advice that you are given? So just keep going to different doctors until you find one that tells you what you want to hear … live and learn.
Last edited by run1fsr; Feb 7, 2012 at 11:46 AM.
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I back it man. Do what you want! I think they look cool and if you can make it work and add mounts and some back pressure that's awesome! Seriously, the last thing this forum needs is another nightster, iron or 48 with short shots!
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