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Old Jul 27, 2010 | 06:09 PM
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On hot days when i get through with a ride my SG with V&H exhaust makes a pinging sound until it cools down. What is the cause and if it curable
 
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Old Jul 27, 2010 | 06:14 PM
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I think it's the pipes/heat shields cooling back down after being hot. Expansion/contraction deal going on. No "fix" that I know of. Not hurting anything!
 
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Old Jul 27, 2010 | 06:31 PM
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thats the metal recontracting after expanding from heat build-up. Nothing you can do. It's a natural phenomenon.
 
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Old Jul 27, 2010 | 06:42 PM
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It's just the pipes going back to there original size, if you listen all kinds of vehicles do it.
 
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I know vehicles do it but mine was sounding like the the Seattle symphony
 
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Surely its normal from braking in the new pipes - just put Vance & Hines high output on my eagle and she purrrrrrs and rumbles like the wind. Just ride and SOAR that baby!
 
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Surely its normal from braking in the new pipes - just put Vance & Hines high output on my eagle and she purrrrrrs and rumbles like the wind. Just ride and SOAR that baby!
Advice well taken
 
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