anyone ever modified the stock muffler?

[Steve Wright]

I have a stock exhausted 2003 and must admit liking the quiet while riding. However I wound up in a situation where a more open pipe would have offered some benefit. We recently purchased a young bull (about 850 Lbs) for our heard. He managed to get out of the cow pasture and into the horse pasture, not that this is a big problem, but he cannot do his work with the horses, that s for sure! I jumped on my KLR and started to scare this bull back into the correct pasture. It was fun chasing the bull around, twice he stopped and squared off with me. He held is head high, and started pawing the ground, flinging dirt behind him. I responded with a little rooster tail of my own, here is where some exhaust noise would have paid off. He (thankfully) never charged me - he also did not seem very scared by my antics. Finally having enough of me, he calmly trotted back to his cow pasture gate closed. When I purchased my KLR, I never figured on using it for wrangling livestock, but it sure works! Steve in Plantersville, TX Steven Wright Design Services jaymackwright@... 281-352-7088 PCB design / Schematic capture / PCB revision Electronic packaging / Wiring Harness design Prototype fabrication and testing / Project documentation [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Chuck MacKarness]

Yup, and have it documented too! http://www.ravenshadow.com/KLR650/mods/exhaust/exhaust.html I removed the spark arrestor (shhhh, don't tell) and made some other tweaks. I was looking for tweety and found him in the rear of the last can. A simple repathing of the gasses ended poor tweetys chirp! Now the bike sounds deeper and a *bit* louder, but much nicer (to me).

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Ryder" wrote: > If you guys would indulge just one more specific exhaust question, I'd > be interested to know if anyone had attempted to modify the stock > muffler in any way. What were you trying to achieve and what were the > results? I do have a welder. > > I understand there are 7500 reasons not to do this, and that police, my > neighbors and people that don't like loud Harleys may damn me to h-e- > double toothpicks. For this thread I'd prefer not to argue politics if > that is acceptable to everyone. > > Thanks in advance!!