Modify message

The message has the following error or errors that must be corrected before continuing:
Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 180 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.
Attachments: (Clear attachments)
Restrictions: 6 per post (6 remaining), maximum total size 64.00 MB, maximum individual size 29.30 MB
Uncheck the attachments you no longer want attached
Click or drag files here to attach them.
(Clear attachments)
Other options
Shortcuts: ALT+S post or ALT+P preview

Topic summary

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - August 19, 2017, 04:26:17 AM

 :o backpressure, I know nothing about this and so was just asking......and if you look close at the picture you posted the 1500 has lots of room to make this mod, the 800 has no or next to no room for a mod like that ......

Posted by Tfrank59
 - August 19, 2017, 00:23:39 AM

Have you seen this? I know it's a 1500 Drifter but it's basically the same process for an 800
https://goo.gl/images/yCkRQr

Posted by Tfrank59
 - August 18, 2017, 19:17:19 PM

Of course you can do anything you want especially if you have the right bending equipment and so forth but you have to have pretty much equal back pressure on both cylinders or it causes problems no?

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - August 18, 2017, 15:18:54 PM

  Now back to Zoar's question, and if I am incorrect then please be gentle in telling me. Zoar wants a exhaust on both sides of his 800.

So I have seen all these bike building, custom chopper, shows and they build their own exhaust systems to fit the bike. So if Zoar has access to an exhaust place why can he not get them to build a system that would fit under the 800 and not be super large and can be narrow or thin in build.

Posted by geewago
 - August 18, 2017, 10:02:28 AM
Quote from: CDNRatMan on August 17, 2017, 15:52:09 PM

Contact GreenBarn he has a set of them and think he is selling them worth the ask

Thanks.  I sent him a message.  Hopefully I'll hear from him.  If he doesn't have any I'm pretty sure I can just improvise something from some other brand of bars.
Posted by mittico68
 - August 18, 2017, 02:24:59 AM
Quote from: geewago on August 17, 2017, 13:10:14 PM

Did you make the rear highway/crash bars that you have on your bike or is there someplace a man can buy them?

As Ol' Drifter posted, they're Ted Design's.
I bought them a couple of years ago and I'm really happy, 'cause they're really well made.
They were originally for the 2up seat, but I wanted them together with the solo seat, so I just flipped them upside down and then added a junction bar at their lower end... As someone already said, it's just italian ingenuity... ;)

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - August 17, 2017, 15:52:09 PM

   Contact GreenBarn he has a set of them and think he is selling them worth the ask

Posted by Old Drifter
 - August 17, 2017, 15:16:31 PM
Quote from: geewago on August 17, 2017, 13:10:14 PM

Did you make the rear highway/crash bars that you have on your bike or is there someplace a man can buy them?

I believe they are the one that were made and sold by Ted's Designs. Sad to say, he retired and is no longer making them.
Posted by geewago
 - August 17, 2017, 13:10:14 PM
Quote from: mittico68 on August 17, 2017, 03:33:35 AM

Gene, maybe you might go with a custom made exhaust.
Like this one I've gone for ma-deuce.

Did you make the rear highway/crash bars that you have on your bike or is there someplace a man can buy them?
Posted by mittico68
 - August 17, 2017, 03:33:35 AM

Gene, maybe you might go with a custom made exhaust.
Like this one I've gone for ma-deuce.

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - August 16, 2017, 17:41:11 PM

  Pizza Man; how are you doing. Buddy I have not seen a set of dual pipes that go on both sides of the 800, I have seen one that is not a working model, and the left side pipes are not actual working exhaust. There is not enough room for the pipes to go under the bike unless it is really thin or narrow.
You might have to go to a different exhaust set up or manufacture your own set up.....

Posted by OR Seedman
 - August 16, 2017, 13:08:08 PM

is it the fishtail end that sticks up too high?  I have seen exhaust sets with one end (the upper one) shorter than the other.  this would definitely be in the way of the bags.  When I mounted mine bags with the 2 roadburner pipes on one side, I left about 1" between the bag and the upper pipe and the sit nicely, especially when I put my big butt down on the seat..but I don't have the fishtail tips...

I have seen one dual exhaust setup on a drifter 800...they snaked the front cylinder exhaust around the front of the bike and ran it down the left side...in my opinion it looked AWFUL...totally ruined the lines of the bike...but hey, that's just my humble opinion.

the only option I can see is to extended the pipes enough that the bag clears the tips on the right side.....if anyone else has any ideas, please let Zoar know....I want happy customers

Posted by Zoar
 - August 16, 2017, 11:24:07 AM

Okay, so I bought hard bags for my 2002 Drifter 800 and I bought the nice attachment assembly by one of the members here... But now I have a major issue:

My dual pipes are TOO TALL.

I cannot mount the hard bags LOW on the bike. With the dual pipes and especially the fish tail ends it is impossible to mount these bags unless the stick up so high they look IDIOTIC.

I cannot look idiotic.

Ideally I would get pipes that run very LOW and straight back, one on EACH SIDE.  I have seen these types of pipes on other bikes, but never saw such a dual exhaust on each side on a Drifter 800.

Any help?

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk