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Aftermarket Mufflers

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Bike as it sits the other day.

Stock exhaust is way to quiet for me. I need some insight and recommendations on exhausts.

Keeping the factory header pipes and swapping the mufflers... Does anyone have any recommendations for a muffler that's not " ricey " for example on my car I have a Borla exhaust... Also in swapping my muffler, do I have to worry about re-jetting? Or that's only if I was changing the header pipes as well?

Thank you for your help and suggestions. Also does anyone know the diameter of the stock exhaust for a 1979 GS 550E?
 
Jetting "should" be OK with just a muffler change. May require a bit of a tweak here and there but no jetting should be required.

As for brand, Yosh would be my first choice. Kerker would be #2 but keep in mind that they will sound a bit more raspy than the stock.
I'm nopt a fan of Mac pipes. Just don't like the sound...
 
I put a set of Dunstalls on my 850 (were $60 each, lots of places sell them) a lot louder than stock (too loud so I sold them to a friend that is cafeing his 78 750. He loves them. They've got a good loud rumble to them. He didn't have to rejet his 750 nor did I need to on my 850.
 
It was these ones

http://www.jcwhitney.com/dunstall-style-megaphone-muffler/p2006467.jcwx?filterid=u0j3

Although I see a lot of guys putting the reverse ones on the cafe bikes. Not sure of the sound difference. Can't remember the diameter, I had them welded onto my headers but SVsooke did one smarter and had a fella weld an adapter into his header then he just clamps his revers cone muffler to that adapter. Wayyyy better, then you can swap out your mufflers as you want.
 
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