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Posted by kw-retrorider
 - October 02, 2014, 03:35:25 AM

Pork33: I know I'm a little late to the party, but did you consider baffles that are available to quiet the HardKrome pipes? I'm sure they are around. There is always the smartpartz universal baffle as well.

Your Classic pipes look good too....nice clean mod with stock Kawi parts.

Posted by Pork33
 - October 01, 2014, 21:33:16 PM

I'm in Philadelphia ,I think shipping to Italy would be expensive

Posted by mittico68
 - October 01, 2014, 05:02:26 AM

Hey, Pork33 if you're willing to sell your prevoius pipes, I could be interested on buyin'...
Let know something, please.
Thanx.

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - September 30, 2014, 21:35:36 PM

  I am not a fan of loud pipes either, I once had Hooker headers on a CB 750 Honda, and my first long trip and a beanie helmet.......yup like Troll said no sleep that night. I find my roadhouse pretty tame compared to a lot of the pipes out there now.....

Posted by greenbarn
 - September 30, 2014, 21:29:33 PM
Quote from: CDNRatMan on September 30, 2014, 17:50:07 PM

GB those do look really long for some reason.....

They are a little on the long side.  They go clear back to the bumperette.  They are louder than I would want them for a long trip, but fine on short trips.
Posted by Bucko
 - September 30, 2014, 21:02:00 PM

The pipes look pretty groovy!  Thanks for posting the pictures.

Forgive my ignorance regarding 800's but is that a original colour scheme?

Posted by 49Reo
 - September 30, 2014, 20:57:39 PM
Quote from: Troll on September 30, 2014, 19:58:09 PM

Loud pipes on a long ride just make you tired, and the sound, coupled with wind noise will stay with you all night, while you try to sleep. When I say a long ride, you guys know what I mean....

....not a coffee run....

Posted by Troll
 - September 30, 2014, 19:58:09 PM

Loud pipes on a long ride just make you tired, and the sound, coupled with wind noise will stay with you all night, while you try to sleep. When I say a long ride, you guys know what I mean....

Posted by Pork33
 - September 30, 2014, 19:47:31 PM

No not loud at all ,they are the stock vulcan classic 800 pipes ....The problem I had was I wanted a motorcycle for the past 5 yrs or so ,then I saw a drifter and I hadda have 1 .So I find local a 2004 with 7000 miles on it for 3200$ .Only thing was that it had the after market pipes on it that were louder than s--t ,I guess thats cool for some and I did enjoy it when riding under an overpass and gunning it ,but dogs hated it ,people behind me wanted to get by me to get out of the shock wave ,babies cried ,car alarms went off .It was just to loud and trying to get a stock set of drifter pipes isn't an easy task ,I found 1500 pipes ,but not 800's .So I went with the vulcan classic pipes that are fairly easy to find on e-bay .
Guess some like it loud others not so loud .

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - September 30, 2014, 17:50:07 PM

  Those look fine to me, and are they loud?

GB those do look really long for some reason.....

Posted by Pork33
 - September 30, 2014, 17:26:43 PM

Ok here are some pics of the vulcan classic pipes on the drifter 800 ......Only problem that I ran into was that the classic pipes would hit the trim rail on the rear fender ,to fix this I shimmed the bottom pipes mounting screws with about 4 or 5 washers and used longer bolts .The bottom pipe will pull the upper pipe over because its attached by the cross-over pipe that connects the 2 .I may also take the top pipe bracket off and put a slight bend in it .

Posted by greenbarn
 - September 30, 2014, 16:32:39 PM

I have a set of Hard-Kromes on my 800 and they look just like that...  I believe they are the "American Classic" model.

http://www.hardkrome.com/models.php?modelID=26

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - September 30, 2014, 11:32:14 AM

  Well Cobra had a set as well as Hard Chrome, and sadly to me they look a lot alike in pictures......but my eyes are getting old.....

Posted by 49Reo
 - September 30, 2014, 09:33:46 AM

They look a bit bigger than Longshots. Maybe Cobra? I think they made pipes like that too..

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - September 29, 2014, 17:18:57 PM

   those might be Vance and Hines longshots, just from the looks.

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