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You guys ever heard the phrase "Measure twice, cut once." Well guess who messed up a $3000 exhaust system by drilling in the wrong spot? Yep, you got it! Love the ferocious sound but the holes aren't where they should be.
Hopefully I can salvage the job by plugging and re-drilling as per instuctions. Call me the Rune Board's "Dunce", but after coming home from having a few after work, I decided it'd be as good a time as any to pop in the holes. What a mistake. Instead of drilling directly into the mufflers, I drilled where the actual pipes enter the mufflers on each side. It now definitely sounds more like a high-performance car than a motorcycle. As someone said in a previous post, it sounds like a dragster at idle and a funnycar upon hard acceleration.
The bottom line is that I'm concerned that if I leave them where they're at, cracks will develop in the tubing around the 1" holes. Not to mention the lack of sufficient back-pressure due to much of the exhaust fumes exiting "before" going through the mufflers. But man does it sound hellishly good & loud. However, my advice to all is "Never Drink and Drill."
Hopefully I can salvage the job by plugging and re-drilling as per instuctions. Call me the Rune Board's "Dunce", but after coming home from having a few after work, I decided it'd be as good a time as any to pop in the holes. What a mistake. Instead of drilling directly into the mufflers, I drilled where the actual pipes enter the mufflers on each side. It now definitely sounds more like a high-performance car than a motorcycle. As someone said in a previous post, it sounds like a dragster at idle and a funnycar upon hard acceleration.
The bottom line is that I'm concerned that if I leave them where they're at, cracks will develop in the tubing around the 1" holes. Not to mention the lack of sufficient back-pressure due to much of the exhaust fumes exiting "before" going through the mufflers. But man does it sound hellishly good & loud. However, my advice to all is "Never Drink and Drill."