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82 850 GL Story of WOAH!!!! - Exhaust

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Riding home from the office this afternoon I almost got caught in a strong thunder storm. Just as the first HUGE rain drops started to fall my bike suddenly sounded rather "sporty." I was in traffic and a mile from home so I thought to myself, "I think the baffle just blew out." I pulled into the garage just before the bottom fell out. Lightening, torrential rain, wind, etc.

I looked down to check the baffle and was baffled. Where's my tail pipe!?!?! :eek::eek::eek:

Jumped in the truck, drove back out on to the bypass and saw the slip on sitting on the center line. I shot a u-turn and pulled into the emergency lane with my hazzard lights on. There was a line of traffic coming so I didn't chance running into the road in the middle of the downpour. I watched the first truck in the line of traffic close in and "PANG", ran over my pipe. It shot into median where I retrieved it after traffic cleared. The collector end was flattened. :(

So here are my options:

1) Replace the exhaust system with the same V&H 4-into-1 system. Vance and Hines V12009 - I was going to have the system ceramic coated anyway because the header is VERY blued and has some rust. The cheapest I've seen the system for is $359.00.

2) Go with another 4 into 1 system. If so, what's available?

3) Try to find a stock system. Then I have to rejet, which I don't want to do.

Anyone have other thoughts?

This is what I'm left with. It does sound mean though.





 
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Oh crap that sucks. Your story was rather exciting to read though and I felt I was there.
Good luck on this one
 
We have to have pictures of this you know. Did the bracket break, or did you just loose the baffle, a $22.00 part? No you said the megaphone is missing. My old one is fused at the collector (probably rust) I'm scratching my head trying to picture how it could happen.
 
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If the header is good, just shop for a new or used pipe. That's what I've done. Yoshi is much cooler upgrade.
 
Well, now I see how it happened. Don't be offended when I say that mounting bracket really sucks. If you leave Murphy a place to strike, he will. What happened to the welded bracket that comes on the megaphone? Vance and Hines has been around for a long time. I would call them and see if you can buy a replacement megaphone, who knows, maybe they will be upstanding and sell you one for cost. That's the way Dynatech operates on long out of warranty failures. After I lost my first baffle, I started drilling and wiring all bolts that could come loose.
 
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I called Vance and Hines this afternoon. They offered to send me a brand new system for full retail. :)

The bracket is the one a PO put on the bike. It extends to reach the bracket on the pipe.

I decided to bite the bullet and go with a new header and slip on. Like I said before, I was going to be putting money into this header and pipe anyway.

I also have the jetting and tuning perfect on the bike. If I go with a different pipe I may have to get back into all of that. I would rather ride. I found one on sale with free shipping.

With all the work I've put into the bike a new exhaust will look really good.
 
I like them BD. I'm not doing anything beyond cruising so they do great for me. I did a "stockish" restoration and wanted to go with RWL's because that's what originally came on the bike. The windshield is a spitfire as well.
 
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