HR, nothing is difficult if you take your time and prepare your work area and tools. I have not looked specifically at these mufflers, but you should FIRST be able to loosen the locking collar at the muffler where the cats feed into them. THEN take off the mounting bolt that suspends the muffler at the passenger footpeg mount. Once this is done, the muffler should wiggle off backwards off the cat feeder pipe.
the bigger question is WHY? ceramic coat what? the outside of the muffler? Why? the only thing worthy of ceramic coating is the Inside of a complete new header system to keep exhaust gases moving and pipe temp down. but this whole system is under the motor where Nobody is going to touch it. So WHY and What-How , the big heavy stock mufflers?
Simple answer .....I don't like the chrome. The sound after I drilled the pipes is OK by me. So not interested in putting a bunch of money in pipes ,torque loops ....
Torq Loopz makes all the difference. Better sound and more power. Changing mufflers without doing Torq Loopz is silly and a waste. Factory pipes are two different back pressures as one is tuned for low rpms and the other is tuned for high rpms. They are designed to be used with a crossover pipe. Be amazed at what the bike will sound like and perform after the change.
There was a thread on it & the general consensus was for the best sound the 1/2" was it. A change was noted going up in size. I would not go too crazy with drilling them out for fear of creating a drone like the after market pipes have ..... Rod
Put them on bike same day I took those pics.......Rained so much around here still catching up on mowing. I'll post bike pics as soon as I get her cleaned up !
Got to keep going now. Looks kind of silly with the chrome pipes below engine covers. Get those, the engine covers, timing chain cover, forks and headlight cover completed for a nice blacked out look.
Got the speedo & headlight covers on the way. Planning to remove brake pedal & timing cover this winter & take to powder coat. Forks will get it whenever I decide to service them
........Rod
the pipe work looks good, it looks like something Johnny Cash would ride all black on black with black trim. at night you wont be able to find your bike..
Besides ,
Chrome mufflers will never be a safety device... If you get blindsided , at night . It's gonna happen , even with those stupid little reflectors they install , from the factory.
even Honda has to keep the little beaurcrats at Gov happy.. those are fist things I shitcan off a bike even while still in the dealer parking lot. I hand them to the sales guy and tell him to mail them in with my title /license paper work.
Different strokes . The color scheme was great on the blue .....Except the chrome pipes .....IMHO totally out of place. I'll never understand the change in the black & red. The ugly silver spray paint on the forks & grab rails just look dumb........
agreed. all the blue berries were that fastest sellers. blacking out the rear seat horns was an easy fix. the fork lowers will get that blacked out treatment when that first tire comes off. wheel off, drop the forks and change the fork oil. The fuel cover looks better in black and not chrome. the headlight was headed to the scrap box from the day it was on the drawing board. so it didn't matter.
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