How to make my Exhausts a little less deafening with some Silencer Baffles and Glass Wool Wrap

[@raymondsadowski6080]

Nice bike!! Great info on the baffles!

[@jemrey2768]

The glass fiber is never crossed by the exhaust gas, never ! It's not a filter. The glass fiber with holes is just a sound wave absorber. Not an exhaust gas filter ! So if you not remove the little cap at the end of the baffles, don't wrap with glass fiber.

[@UPTHETOWN]

Not surprised you're chuffed, looks and sounds spot on

[@daveco1270]

I just bought some of those baffles on Amazon for like 10 bucks each. I took the plug at the end out of mine. That seemed too restrictive in combination with the fiberglass wrap. I haven't put a ton of miles on them but my 1975 Honda CB750 is quieter and has less popping on decel. Sounds better than the open non-baffled mufflers, and the RMP's seem to drop quicker when I let off the throttle. It would hang up just a little with the old open pipes, no matter how I tuned it.

[@ianhames2465]

I think if you remove that little cap you placed on the front of the baffle, you should get back a bit more lower tone, it will work like a gun silencer but will let the gasses and carbon out rather than choke up the glass fibre and make the engine run crapper and crapper. Just a thought. Right now it sounds and looks very nice. I think your vids are cool and helpful so please don't hate me for saying. I just purchased a 1 1/4" bit of ally bar to block the balance pipe on my TR7RV 750 78 hoping it will do the same for me as it did for your Bonneville. I too have a second bike which is a Yamaha XT600 1987, I have renewed almost everything on it but made it unique. It is a mice big thumper.

[@glenncurtis7224]

You’ve done a great job and it sounds great too

[@OldBiker]

Check out the new peashooters Glenn, much better sounding!

[@knightlautrec4311]

Do you have to make any kind of adjustments when doing this? I bought an aftermarket pipe but it turns out to be a straight through. It's so unbelievable loud I just felt like a fool riding it, not least for my own hearing let alone my neighborhood. I was hoping I could install a baffle to bring the noise down to make it more tolerable, I wanted slightly louder not atomic bomb.

[@OldBiker]

Hi Knight I never made any changes to the carbs if that's what you mean, just try the baffles without the cladding as they make it a little more bearable

[@knightlautrec4311]

@@OldBiker Yeah to the fueling or anything is what I meant. I am hoping to put a baffle into this straight pipe to quieten it down. It doesn't have a hole for screwing a baffle in in but hoping I could make one.

[@janvidb4377]

Im thinking of doing exactly this, did you encounter any problems after installing?

[@cunningplan96]

Hope you don’t mind me saying but I put a set of baffles in my XS650 exhausts like those without any wadding! Sounded great but strangled the bike, I could barely do 70 and on hills could just about do 60. Take if for a ride 👌 mine are different exhausts as I took off the same ones your using as they were too loud. Hope your lucky 👍

[@OldBiker]

Hi Tony, nah dont mind at all, I think I will change them out as a mate of mine has got a set of Dunstall silencers he said I could have, he just purchased them for his Triumph but didnt like the look, I'll see what the bike sounds like with what I have now and check the plus and see if they made any difference while its nice and sunny where I am and then go visit him for the pipes

[@cunningplan96]

@@OldBiker I found those tulips quite loud and even sound louder than the straight through ones on mine now (I took the baffles out in the end as it was so bad)

[@OldBiker]

Changed em over to Peashooters, nicee sound and looks now!

[@ianhames2465]

@@OldBiker please excuse the intrusion of your messaging, but I have to totally agree with you on the great sound of the Peashooters. I have a 78 750 Tiger (Bonneville single carb) which I wanted to install the T120R 650 Burgess pipes on as they sound just awesome, I had a 1962 T120R. Peashooters in my opinion sound the same but slightly louder, and do look great.

[@royalenfieldbiker1602]

Woop woo

[@jeffryan7439]

Can’t see that working, you are forcing the exhaust through the glass like a filter, not only will it choke the heck out of it but it will thrash the glass in no time

[@EnlightenedSavage]

The originals would probably be better if you wrapped them.

[@OldBiker]

If Ii wrapped the originals I wouldn't be able to get them back in

[@garrysanderson5793]

​@@OldBikerhere's an old trick from a young biker raised by old bikers lol, use a pipe crimper + a screwdriver shaft to dent grooves into the original baffles, stuff the grooves with strips of packing. This sounds nuts but it works really well