Road King sound
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From: FL
I think you should take a look at these. To meet your requirements you'll need to do something with your head-pipe. Like replace it or gut it. Also, even a stock bike can benefit from a "tuneup". With the changes that you want to do you'll really benefit from one.
American Custom
American Custom
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BAFFLES!?!?! HAH!!!! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BAFFLES! Ya know, back in the 70's, when I was a much younger pup, we loved to make noise with those pipes. Now, maybe I'm getting older (and wiser) and I still like a nice rumble, but I don't understand sacrificing the power for noise thing. That's just me, but there are so many sweet sounding setups out there that maximize power and wake up the neighbors ....... me personally, I just don't get it. But that's me, so go make noise if you want, get us some new legislation ............
Cruiser
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I have a set of Pythons that came with my '04 when I bought it, they have a very deep rumble to them and she really barks when you hammer on it! It sounds pretty sweet but it pops on decel, I should really get it tuned... Thats with the stock head pipes btw. Just a suggestion.
Road Master
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From: pittsburgh, pa
Wild Pigs run about $190 w/shipping direct from the manufacturer. They sound quite similar to Rush, and their quality is very good. You can choose from 1 3/4", 1 7/8, 2, 2 1/4 and 2 1/2" baffles. The baffles are a snap to change, and I have 4 sets of baffles for the two sets of mufflers I own. I repacked them with stainless steel wool wrapped with aluminum screen for the best tone with good packing duability, and swap the baffles on my Ultra with ease depending on what type of riding I'll be doing-1 3/4" for touring, 2 or 2 1/4" for local riding. The Pigs can be run w/o packing for a big increase in volume, but you lose some of the tone. Either way, you have options with Wild Pigs that you don't have with a lot of other mufflers. I originally had Reinhart mufflers on the Ultra (awful!), and went to Vance and Hines ovals, which were so-so. The Pigs are far better than both, at far less cost. The customer service from the company is first rate, and you get a live person when you call rather than a electronic "menu".
You can achieve the sound and volume you want at a fraction of the cost of the big name exhaust and mufflers.
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Road Master
Joined: Feb 2012
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From: pittsburgh, pa
I have a set of Pythons that came with my '04 when I bought it, they have a very deep rumble to them and she really barks when you hammer on it! It sounds pretty sweet but it pops on decel, I should really get it tuned... Thats with the stock head pipes btw. Just a suggestion.
Road Master
Joined: Feb 2012
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From: pittsburgh, pa
BAFFLES!?!?! HAH!!!! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BAFFLES! Ya know, back in the 70's, when I was a much younger pup, we loved to make noise with those pipes. Now, maybe I'm getting older (and wiser) and I still like a nice rumble, but I don't understand sacrificing the power for noise thing. That's just me, but there are so many sweet sounding setups out there that maximize power and wake up the neighbors ....... me personally, I just don't get it. But that's me, so go make noise if you want, get us some new legislation ............
But I love the "Darth Vader" sound my FLHTP has with the 2.5" baffles! It just sounds plain mean, which is a good thing in a police bike.
Cruiser
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From: WI
Some of the guys in my motor unit run the pythons. They tend to "bark" under throttle, and have sounded the same whether they had them on our '05 Road Kings w/88 ci or the '08 FLHTP's with the 103. I've also noticed that there does seem to be some "popping" on decel with Pythons on the stock police bikes. I'm not sure your issue is tuning. That may just be a quirky characterisic of the Pythons.
That could be, nothing looks out of the ordinary when I check the spark plugs. I guess I just assumed that getting it tuned would get rid of it.
As far as the OP was saying about being extremely loud, my opinion would be not to have it too rediculous on a daily rider. Again, thats just me. Now on my '82 on the other hand I run open fishtails, no baffels, no nothing. Its just loud as hell, and it has that sweet, lopey, Shovelhead idle. I don't ride that one everyday though, and I wouldn't want to listen to it for a 2, 3, 400+ mile ride!
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