Artie
Certified Gear Head!
Hey guys, I got my new pipes in on Friday and put them on! It wasn't a simple bolt on affair but the "engineering" needed to fit them was fairly simple and straight forward. I'll post some pics up of my procedure, figuring I didn't have enough memory in my SD card to take tons of pics I won't put this up as a how to.
First I pulled off the old exhaust and bracketry.
Next I installed the O2 plugs into the pipes, got these from the Harley dealership down the street from me!
always helps to have friends since the pipes didn't come with them!
Also, notice I installed my old flanges onto the new pipes. I used a brass hammer and my anvil on my vise to flatten the retaining clip so it fit into the receiver groove better to hold the pipes in place!
Next order of business was to mount up the bracket, but on test fitting the pipe, the mounting flange on the rear section was off by about 1/2 inch. I took my handy DeWalt drill and a big F-ing drill bit and channelled the holes by about another 1/2 inch each so I could slide the bracket back some more. This proved fruitful! The holes look kind of crappy, but when I get some stuff powdercoated this winter, I'll recoat the bracket too and bye bye!
Now that the bracket is in place, and I only thumb tightened the bolts to allow me some wiggle room(literally), next comes the heat shields. Be sure though to wipe off the oily fingerprints on the pipes before installing the heat shields or they will burn into the chrome on the pipes and although you won't see them, I've been told it can damage the plating from the contamination and heat over time. Won't hurt anything to clean them anyway! The clamps are supplied but wished for the $800+ that I spent on these pipes, they would have at least been higher quality and chromed, but alas, I just work here! Lol! Sorry to get off topic. Anyway, lay out the heat shields and orient the head of the clamps as the instructions show so you can access them on the bike if you need to reposition the shields at some point.
Be sure to align the shields to abut one another, I played with the damn clamps for about 15 minutes to get these bastards perfect! So that's why I'm putting the picture up!
So after aligning everything and wiping everything clean, carefully install the pipe, I found it easier to install the rear rear cylinder pipe and flange first and stretch the front pipe and flange around to the front cylinder since there is more room in front!
Here is before!
And After!
All in all a pretty straightforward project, I am a little disappointed with the size of the pipes hidden behind the shields, but upon startup and running, she sounds great and the low end power boost is pretty noticeable! Wish I had dyno'd it before and after, but I didn't! Also, now I'm going to have to do some fabricating to get some passenger pegs to fit my bike! Damn, another project!
Art
First I pulled off the old exhaust and bracketry.
Next I installed the O2 plugs into the pipes, got these from the Harley dealership down the street from me!
always helps to have friends since the pipes didn't come with them!
Also, notice I installed my old flanges onto the new pipes. I used a brass hammer and my anvil on my vise to flatten the retaining clip so it fit into the receiver groove better to hold the pipes in place!
Next order of business was to mount up the bracket, but on test fitting the pipe, the mounting flange on the rear section was off by about 1/2 inch. I took my handy DeWalt drill and a big F-ing drill bit and channelled the holes by about another 1/2 inch each so I could slide the bracket back some more. This proved fruitful! The holes look kind of crappy, but when I get some stuff powdercoated this winter, I'll recoat the bracket too and bye bye!
Now that the bracket is in place, and I only thumb tightened the bolts to allow me some wiggle room(literally), next comes the heat shields. Be sure though to wipe off the oily fingerprints on the pipes before installing the heat shields or they will burn into the chrome on the pipes and although you won't see them, I've been told it can damage the plating from the contamination and heat over time. Won't hurt anything to clean them anyway! The clamps are supplied but wished for the $800+ that I spent on these pipes, they would have at least been higher quality and chromed, but alas, I just work here! Lol! Sorry to get off topic. Anyway, lay out the heat shields and orient the head of the clamps as the instructions show so you can access them on the bike if you need to reposition the shields at some point.
Be sure to align the shields to abut one another, I played with the damn clamps for about 15 minutes to get these bastards perfect! So that's why I'm putting the picture up!
So after aligning everything and wiping everything clean, carefully install the pipe, I found it easier to install the rear rear cylinder pipe and flange first and stretch the front pipe and flange around to the front cylinder since there is more room in front!
Here is before!
And After!
All in all a pretty straightforward project, I am a little disappointed with the size of the pipes hidden behind the shields, but upon startup and running, she sounds great and the low end power boost is pretty noticeable! Wish I had dyno'd it before and after, but I didn't! Also, now I'm going to have to do some fabricating to get some passenger pegs to fit my bike! Damn, another project!
Art
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or is it just me 
