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Cliffz
Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 10:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What is louder, the buell race kit, the drummer, or the D@D?
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420at145mph
Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 10:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

D&D
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Cliffz
Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 11:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Between the race kit and the drummer, which is louder?
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420at145mph
Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 11:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

never actually heard a drummer
but the race kit sounds like CRAAAAP
so id guess the drummer sounds better n louder
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Coldwthrrider
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 12:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've got a 9R with the race kit and I think it sounds awesome, but that's only compared to stock. The only other XB I've heard is a 12R which is halfway between the 9 stock and 9race in terms of volume and bark. With everyone asking for sound clips, there should be an archive of sound clips with different exhausts. People could record their bikes and upload clips for all to hear.
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420at145mph
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 12:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

sound clips really dont give a good example of the actual sound
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R1DynaSquid
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 02:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

BadS1 & myself came to a conclusion tonight that his wifes Blast with the Vance & Hines pipe is actually louder than his XB12 with the Drummer. At least thats the way it sounded to us. His bike sounds good & is definitely not too loud at all. But that little Blast makes a hell of a racket: D
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Naughtynurse
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 04:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

LOL
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Ingemar
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 05:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've heard both my own bike with drummer and many with the race kit on a meeting with over 200 buells (of which most were tubers btw). I would say the drummer is just slightly more noisier than the racekits' pipe.

But then, I was on my own bike, never heard my own bike drive by WOT. But what's for sure to me is that the drummer SOUNDS softer, because it's a deep & heavy throaty kinda sound, unlike the somewhat steelish 'more open' sound of the racecan. Not that is sounds bad tho, just ..uh.. different

When cruising downtown, I think the drummer sounds very acceptable. People turn their heads but don't cover their ears, unlike when I was riding my sportster with open pipes.
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Cliffz
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 07:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

How about performance between the 3, which is best and why. I'm not sure what I want to get. Most of my riding is above 4000 rpm. I already have the 12 airbox cover K@N and pro series plugs, and cut the intake tube down.
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Xb9er
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 08:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

<I already have the 12 airbox cover K@N and pro series plugs, and cut the intake tube down.>

Does cutting down the intake tube (I assume you mean velocity stack????) have any benefits?

Mike.
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Darthane
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 09:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Not unless you know what you're doing or are really lucky!
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Cliffz
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 09:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

oops, I thought that I seen here to remove the stack. When I did there was a gap between the frame and the box. So I cut it down to just below the air box. Can't really feel a differance but I guess every little bit counts.
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Tucsonxb9s
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 10:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Don't remove the stack...remove the snorkel that runs through the frame.
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Chainsaw
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 10:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've heard all 3 pipes in XB's in the same parking lot on the same day. My ranking from "freaking loud" to "not so freaking loud":

1. D&D
2. Race Kit
3. Drummer
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Dcmortalcoil
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 12:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

According to my ears, the Drummer is significantly louder than the Race Kit.
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Jasonblue
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 02:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah, I would probably put the stack back if I was you.
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Xblue9r
Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 04:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

i've had the race can and now have a drummer, and even though the drummer is "louder" the sound is very different. the drummer has a much lower tone compared to the race can and it eliminated 99% of the backfiring i had with the race can too.

volume alone is not a good way to compare the mufflers imo, consider the tone as well.
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