Your honest opinion on A.M. exhaust

[Guest]

I have almost put a thousand miles on my GS since I have got it running and (knock on wood) haven't had any problems yet! Of course now I like to let my mind wander about what I could do mod related, and if it is one thing I could change it would be the exhaust.

I have been told by a few people that it sounds like a scooter especially when riding around at low RPM ....and I really love the sound of these bikes with vance and hines pipes, plus they are very cheap.

Has anyone just bolted on a vance and hines onto their stock bikes and been okay? Or is their a lot of tweaking and definitely and jet upgrade in order for that? Thank you for your input guys

[mrbill5491]

I have almost put a thousand miles on my GS since I have got it running and (knock on wood) haven't had any problems yet! Of course now I like to let my mind wander about what I could do mod related, and if it is one thing I could change it would be the exhaust.

I have been told by a few people that it sounds like a scooter especially when riding around at low RPM ....and I really love the sound of these bikes with vance and hines pipes, plus they are very cheap.

Has anyone just bolted on a vance and hines onto their stock bikes and been okay? Or is their a lot of tweaking and definitely and jet upgrade in order for that? Thank you for your input guys

Umm lots of us have replaced our stock pipes with V&H or some other brand of pipe. It is pretty straight forward install a pipe, just usually a direct bolt on, no modifying at all. As for jetting the carb that could be a bit tricky depending on the route you take. Keeping the stock filter and air box, probably won't have to rejet, install a K&N stock replacement filter, yes to some jetting changes (mostly just a couple steps on the mains) and if you go with pods, then it becomes a bit more work. If your expecting a power increase from a pipe, your"re not gonna see much. What you do gain is weight reduction and a better HP to weight ratio and a nice throaty sound.

Me, I installed a pipe, kept the stock air box set up and installed a K&N filter. Had to go from 112.5 to 115.5s on the main jets.