Exhaust Options

[samneil2000]

I have a loud bike (Honda, not a Harley) and I agree we get away with a lot more sound on bikes. There's a biker saying though that goes like this:
"Loud pipes save lives"
That's because it's sometimes hard to see a bike. It's always easy to spot a VX though.

More on topic, has anyone installed a Flowmaster muffler on their VX? How did that sound?

[crotchrocket]

I have a loud bike (Honda, not a Harley) and I agree we get away with a lot more sound on bikes. There's a biker saying though that goes like this:
"Loud pipes save lives"
That's because it's sometimes hard to see a bike. It's always easy to spot a VX though.

More on topic, has anyone installed a Flowmaster muffler on their VX? How did that sound?

Agreed ! i drive through London everyday and 9 times out of 10 i hear a bike and look for it in my mirrors etc before i see it

[Solitude]

More on topic, has anyone installed a Flowmaster muffler on their VX? How did that sound?

VCross007 installed the super 40, but didnt like because of the loss of torque

[VehiGAZ]

More on topic, has anyone installed a Flowmaster muffler on their VX? How did that sound?

Great at idle, but grating after that. I had a 2.5" Delta 40 or 50 on mine, and I stopped driving the VX so much because it was so loud and awful inside - it felt like the muffler was piped into the cargo area. Don't do it.

I replaced it with a 2.5" Dynomax super turbo muffler late last year and have been absolutely ecstatic with the results. Similar burble at idle, but far better sound quality and far lower sound level than the FM.

Crotchrocket, can you get Dynomax in UK?

Good luck all!

[crotchrocket]

Crotchrocket, can you get Dynomax in UK?

Nope

[Riff Raff]

VehiGAZ--- You convinced me-- when I have to replace my muffler, I'm going the Dynomax Super Turbo route. What kind of set-up do you have with the Dynomax Super Turbo??? Dual Exhaust or Single??? If Dual; did you use twin mufflers or a single-into-two???

[Riff Raff]

VehiGAZ--- Where are you???

[Riff Raff]

VehiGAZ--- Where are you???

x2

[VehiGAZ]

I had a 2.5" Delta 40 or 50 on mine, and I stopped driving the VX so much because it was so loud and awful inside

I think I have to correct this statement - I recently came across my receipt from Summitracing.com and it says I got a FlowMaster Super 44 series muffler - not the Delta 40 I thought. Hmm.... maybe that's why it didn't sound good?

In any event, I have a single 2.5" pipe from the Y junction (right after the cats) back to the 2.5" Dynomax Super Turbo (center in/offset out configuration), then more 2.5" piping back to a bolt-on chrome exhaust tip.

Riff Raff - I'm in Connecticut.

[dtruax]

vehiGAZ-
do you have any video/sound clip of your dyno max?

[Riff Raff]

In any event, I have a single 2.5" pipe from the Y junction (right after the cats) back to the 2.5" Dynomax Super Turbo (center in/offset out configuration), then more 2.5" piping back to a bolt-on chrome exhaust tip.

Riff Raff - I'm in Connecticut.

VehiGAZ--- I wasn't concerned of where you live, you silly-- I just wanted to know how your exhaust was set-up (single or dual, etc). Anyway, thanx for the update. I'm thinking of trying a "dual" set-up. Probably just like yours using a "single" Dynomax Super Turbo muffler, except with a center-in/twin-out configuration going to dual exhaust tips (matching left & right at rear) using 2.5" everywhere beyond the Y-junction.

[VehiGAZ]

vehiGAZ-
do you have any video/sound clip of your dyno max?

Nope - I tried to record the sound a couple of times for a couple of forum members, but was totally unsatisfied with the results - for a complex, wide-spectrum sound like an exhaust, you need pro-quality recording devices. Cell phones and digital cams just don't cut it!

And of course you'd have to replay it through a good sound system too, but that problem is not on my end.

[VehiGAZ]

VehiGAZ--- I wasn't concerned of where you live, you silly

I forgot to put a smiley after that crack.

[PHO2GR4]

Gotta say...very, very happy with my Flowmaster Off-Road Extreme. I've had it for a couple of years now. Deep growly sound, not raspy.

There are two video (with audio!) clips in my member gallery, comparing the stock exhaust sound with the Flowmaster sound. If I were more of a genius, I probably could have figured out how to link those clips to this post. (Can anyone help me with that?)

As a bonus, the muffler is a cool-looking black diamond-plate steel. Coupled with a carbon-fiber (or fibre, if you're in the UK) exhaust tip from eBay, I now have a color-coordinated Ebony VX. I ever roll it and get stuck belly-up, I'll look AWESOME.