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I just put my Thunderbike pipes on the other day, I like the deep sound, but the short off roads I had on were louder. Has anyone tried to take out the baffles yet? I tried but I can't get them out.

What?
What did you say?
Your TOR's were louder?
Well, I can fart really loud, but with balance and performance, I cannot claim that it is louder than teh TPipes.



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Iz zat your beer?

Pat, Everybody talks but an audio sound byte would be proof.
HaHa. It's the middle of winter. Sorry

Jerry

Wow !!! Not loud enough?! To each his own i guess.I actually packed 2/3 the length of the unpacked area to quiet them down, which by the way worked well. You could try removing the packing in the packed ares and if that doesn't do it for you just remove the whole baffle. But i think you'll be starved for backpressure.

Anyway, to take them out you have to remove them from the bike. If you try to remove them on the bike just by removing the allen screw near the end they won't budge. The 2 screws that hold the muffler to the rear peg hanger are to blame. Remove them too and the baffles will come out, tho they still can be a bit of a biotch. I don't know why those 2 screws matter, as they don't seem to be in the way of the baffle. But for whatever reason they gotta come out before it'll budge.

One way to remove them if they are tight is to clamp a vise grip plier onto the little bit od welded bead at the end of the baffle and pull and twist. If thats not enough, add a second vice grip to the end of the first one at a 45 degree angle so you can hit it with a hammer. In any case, remove the allen screw and the 2 mounting screws and they'll come out. But i cannot for the life of me understand how you could want more volume !!

Thanks for the help Dale. I kind of thought those 2 bolts on the hanging bracket might be the answer. I know it will be to loud without the baffles but I'm the kind of guy that just needs to hear it one time. I love the sound of the pipes but I had the TOR's on for about 2 years and they were louder just not a deep enough sound. I also think that because the TOR's were the short ones, and I got the long TB pipes, it just takes a little getting use to the difference.

Thanks again for the help. Some of your earlier post help me make the decision to buy the TB pipes.

Van

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After hearing clanrickarde's bike just now after he came over to put his new Thunderbike pipes on, I too can't see what the fuss is about. These pipes are NOT loud. Like the man says, they're about like a good set of TORs.

Not that this is a bad thing. I thought they had a good sound to them, about like Budweiser's drilled out stock pipes when I heard them in Albq last fall. I think I could be happy with the Thunderbike pipes over my much louder Epcos....especially on long trips.

Thunderbike pipes sound ****** without the baffles. i removed them for the same reason and ok they were louder but resonating off the large diamater pipe made them sound like a virago i knew once. i ended up removing the long peice off pipe towards the header, drilled out the holes in the baffle and repacked the fibreglass. now they are louder but the note is still not right so still expirimenting. you do need to remove the mounting bracket to get the baffles out.

The T-bikes are just right for me.....they give the bike "character" and yet are not presumptively loud .....