Cheap Exhaust Mod Vitpilen 701

I decided to completely eliminate the muffler on my Vitpilen 701. Essentially all that's involved is cutting a pipe to taste and cleaning up the edges. I found a perfect donor pipe from Black Widow from the UK for about 30 GBP. Sounds pretty good, shouldn't require a retune becuase the catalytic converter is still intact and the cat takes enough energy out of the exhaust that it sounds solid but not obnoxious; www.blackwidow...

[@KoonceLyfe]

Sounds great! Can you share where you purchased the license plate mount from?

[@WeirdlyTechnical]

Absolutely! It's Competition Werkes, I'll put the link below. It's pretty heavy laser cut steel, but it was the best solution I could find at the time. I'm considering printing a new one in ASA at some point just to get the extra mass off my bike 😁 competitionwerkes.com.au/products/husqvarna-vitpilen-svartpilen-701-fender-eliminator?_pos=2&_sid=964db8322&_ss=r

[@Eratosthenes0815]

Hi! To pimp the sound of my VIT 701 I put in place the cat/silencer replacement in the middle and kept my exhaust can. This diddn't work well for me. With no 1st silencer and a replacement pipe the bike sounds pretty ugly. Putting in place a tiny (Leovince-) can worked much better, but diddn't do what I wanted. 😞 - Keeping the 1st silencer and adding only an "underslung endcap" could do the job. This seems to be what you've done?! Where can I get one of these? - Following your links I end up seeing an "Eliminator Pipe", but no end cap... THNX 4 info. MfL der Eratosthenes

[@WeirdlyTechnical]

Hello! I used the link pipe can cut the profile I wanted. I just clamped it on, marked the angle, removed it from the bike, mounted it up in a vice and cut it with an angle grinder, then finished it with a hand file. It took about half an hour, or maybe a little longer. I had the Leo Vince on it before as well and found that the Leo made it sound a little tinny, whereas this leaves a bit more of the bass in and actually removes a little tinnyness at idle. I hope that helps and it sounds like, for you, this will be a zero dollar mod if you already have the link pipe 😁 Thanks for your feedback on my video as well 🙂

[@kncrash6821]

@@WeirdlyTechnical Nice , looks clean. I have the LV10 aswell, and find the sound thin. Did noise level rise much ? Neighbour friendly ... The exact link followed my bike but i never tried it, your solution looks better :)

[@WeirdlyTechnical]

@@kncrash6821 Thanks :) I found that it didn't increase the sound level a lot, it mainly got rid of a bit of the higher pitched noise and bulked up the base a bit... It's noticeably louder when you're hard on the throttle, but I leave it a while before I do that because of the good neighbour thing anyway... I've tried the bike stationary with just the header, no cat and that's punishingly loud at idle, so I wouldn't want to do this without the catalytic converter, but I'd say that, with the cat it increases the volume slightly, but mainly removes some tinnyness and makes it sound like a big bike, which it is :)