I finally got to the point that the loudness of my Specialty Spares was starting to keep me off the bike so I began scouting for a used set of TORs. Found them, bought them, fitted them to the bike and took a ride. Surprise, surprise, it's like riding a new bike...crisper acceleration and a much smoother wind to the redline. All without any other mods at all to the fuel chain, well, one, I did have to rebalance the carbs. Got the noise level down to an acceptable uproar at the same time and now I want to ride sunup to sundown again. Dang, I thought I had those SS pipes dialed in, too, thought I had me a real hooligan of a bike. Who'd a thunk it?
I got my work cut out trying to make those slash cut TORs replicate that SS look, all blacked out with that sweet billet tip. Maybe I'll have to source a clean set of headers and start over...meanwhile I have a set of SS pipes to tinker with baffling and packing to try and get the dB level down to a good neighbor level.
I thought I might try to build a full length baffle to see if I dumb the SS down a lot. Anyone else have any ideas?
