Dick,
I've said the following around here before, but if you'd maybe drill the first forward baffle on your stock units with a 1/2 inch drill bit, I think you'd find a nice compromise would be had between your TORs and your stock pipes. Not too loud and not to soft is what I've found the result to be after I did this very thing to my stock mufflers a few years back.
And then maybe those cagers MIGHT hear ya over their radios and cell phones, but still might not resent your presence next to them, and thus they can continue go about their daily little insulated lives without you causing any additional undue stress in it!
