Vance & Hines Short Shots Exhaust

Hey everyone! It has been a very looooooong while since I posted about my mods so I've got to backtrack a bit and post some old ones that I never did.

I changed out the stock pipes for some Vance & Hines Shortshots. Purely aesthetic mod but the bike does feel better with the new pipes and a carb re-jet.  If you're thinking of doing this one, buying a new exhaust gasket for the rear pipe is important as the old one looked disgusting when I took it out.  This mod didn't require the header pipe to be removed so that gasket won't be changed out.

Old pipes being removed. Fairly simple process, a socket wrench, allen wrench, and box end does the job along with a screwdriver. The support assembly also needed to be switched out with the ones shipped with the new pipes.

And here's all the materials I had to use: New pipes, quitter baffles, exhaust gaskets, and the jet kit for the carb mod later.

The original baffles are the ones on the right.  I've heard the Shortshots with the stock baffles and they are too LOUD for my taste. My ears would be bleeding through a tunnel or underpass. I decided to go with their quitter baffles instead, the ones on the left. Taking the baffles out wasn't difficult, I just used some vise grips to get a hold on the edge and tugged little by little.

The pipes have to be "assembled" out of the box, sounds scary but it's misleading.  These pipes just needed the sleeves to be slid over the actual pipes as shown in the pic. Everything went easily together with a bit of gentle pushing.  The sleeves are held on to the main pipes by 4 hose clamps.

Putting them on the bike was the easiest part, definitely doable alone. The only thing that needed a bit of tweaking was the sleeves, to get that "stacked" look at the tip.

Here's the end result.