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Mcdusa1
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 04:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Has any one tried to put a sportster exhaust on an XB. Hooker has some step tuned straits and 2 into one's cool stuff
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07xb12scg
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 06:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I don't condone Buell abuse, but this would be interesting to see.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 07:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

due to exhaust clearance and back pressure issues, I maybe looking at a set of thunderheaders for my XB9SX, I do like the way they look and sound off of my sporty. In black of course. If I go that way, I will post the pic.
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Xl1200r
Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 12:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I feel like I've seen a setup where someone cut up a thinderheader and monted it in the stock XB muffler location... maybe they'll chime in.

I'm not a big fan of thunderheaders - I know folks love them, but we compared a thunderheader to a supertrapp on my 2004 sportster and the thunderheader just plain sucked, lol. Sound was nice, though.
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Rich
Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 06:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I saw drag pipes on a S2 once, at Bike Week.

Made me double-take.: )
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Bartimus
Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 09:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

what exactly are you trying to accomplish by putting sportster pipes on your Buell?
Are you trying to copy the sound of the sportster? there are a set of pipes made by Bub, for Buell tubers, that will accomplish that, and still give you a clean look.
Warning, they are VERY loud, and they do sound EXACTLY like a Harley...
You can probably find a set at J&P cycles, or some of the other "Harley" parts warehouses...
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 01:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

ground clearance, mass centralization be damned, I want the clearance to get more randy out in the dirt
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Corporatemonkey
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 05:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Brian, you saw my post about the DHD race bike, right?
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/406 2/316094.html

The photos I posted showed how they did their custom pipe. I don't think you would end up with a lot ground clearance. I don't know how this would be much different than using a sportster pipe.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 10:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I did see that exhaust, but it still goes under the bike, limiting ground clearance. I was looking here, but I know its gonna be spendy http://www.arcfabrication.com/buellexhaust.html
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Corporatemonkey
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 05:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

How would you get the header/pipe around the frame, with torching your legs off?

That tuber exhaust looks like it would be REALLY hot
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 01:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

heat wrap, Jet coat, heat shield and of course ride bow legged ;)
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Badlionsfan
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 09:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

ground clearance, mass centralization be damned, I want the clearance to get more randy out in the dirt
jesus jones dude, just buy a dirt bike. your cityx is a STREET fighter, not a TRAIL fighter. what you're doing makes as much sense as taking an AWD drive sports car off roading "'cuz it's four wheel drive, hu-hu). i am off my soap box now.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 02:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Subaru WR-x, Audi A4, A6, Quattro, GMC Typhoon, Porsche 959 & Cayenne, Lamoborgini LM002, mmmm all fourwheel drive beasts & I would autocross dirt drive any of them. If Buell had built the dirt bike then I would have that as my next bike. I am too short for the ULY, but I want to run every where a ULY does, without exception. Getting the exhaust up and off the bottom of the bike gets me ULY clearance. And if you saw the pics of my exhaust can, you know why I need the clearance.
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Mcdusa1
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 09:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I have come to the conclusion no one on this sight has put a sporty exhaust on a XB I dont think ground clearence would be a problem, may be some other problems. Why do I want to know? It would open up a lot of new posabilies.
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Xl1200r
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 10:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Some things to keep in mind...

The exhaust systems for sportsters (at least all that I can think of) run the pipes below the engine cases, but on the outside of them as well. Also, the rear pipes on the 2:2 systems run to the back of the bike right from the head, so they would be going into the frame on an XB. The rear pipe *might* fit from a 2:1 system.

The nice thing about exhaust is that you can bend it however you want. You're not going to get a Sportster exhaust on an XB and have it work or fit well, and it will look like ass. However, with some custom pipes, you could monst a sportster muffler just about anywhere you want to.
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