looking at changing the exhuast on my bike and the breather.

Its a stock 1200c

looking at getting a heavy breather and vance and hines pipes.

Just wondering what else i will need done.
I know i have to get new tuner for the bike.
just wondering what the options are etc.

 

any help would be great

 

 How long is a piece of sting?

You need to decide what you want to do first. Are you going for a look and sound or are you going for performance.

 Heavy breather can go either way. V & H make some nice looking pipes, some perform better than others. With a large range of sounds.  There are better brand around, but I do like V & H.

The short pipes will normally give you a loud, cracking note, while the longer pipe will give you a deeper note.

For a stock or lightly modified motor you will get better performance overall out off longer twins or 2 into 1's. With a good tuner you may get a bigger max number out of short pipes but will cost you bottom end.

Tuner choses are even wide. From an Auto tuner that you plug in and forget to something like a TTS or SE that you can get base maps for and then dial in. Again depends on what result you want.

Do your research. Search the web. Read the forms. Take everything you read with a grain of salt. Make a decision.

It Simple See.

what other brand pipes should i look at?
im open for options.

Right now im thinking of getting V & H big radius...

sorry its 2007 1200 custom
so yeh its efi

as i said in the first post i know i need to get a tuner to run both.
Just unsure with tuners as ive never looked into this before.

kinda decided i wanna get V&H big radius pipes.
just love the look and sound of them.
Mate has them on his bike.

I've got a set of those double barrel staggered pipes that Dazza is selling on my nightster. No tuner yet, love them, great sound, bike runs great. Not going to change A/C until I get tuner though. I'm building/modifying a set one 2 in 1 for my bike, but since I have put the DB pipes on I'm in no hurry and will do all my other changes first, then make a decision on the pipes. As the bike progresses ideas change.

looking on ebay for pipes from the states.
Havent come up with anything yet.
Might look at some international online stores if i can find some safe enough ones.

If anyone has any online stores to suggest let me know

I was having a look at this US website at another V&H pipe. They have the Big Radius as well, which looks reasonably priced.

http://www.morepoweracing.com/mq6w5411771865/Exhaust/Motorcycle-Exhaust/Vance-&-Hines/Harley-Davidson/Sportster/2007-2011/c-1-71-73-4605-4606-4617-28125/

These guys have the Big Radius as well, a bit cheaper. Not sure about freight in either case, probably start the checkout procedure to find out.

http://www.usamotorcycleparts.com/store.php?crn=255

Good time to buy now too with the aussie $ doing well.

yeh the first one has huge postage costs. I checked them out first as it free postage for over 600 dollars. Yet it means clothing
Most companies have this stupid idea that having express post is good.

id rather just have standard post and registered.

Anyone else with stores let me know

Check video out, the V&H Big radius, they sound & look great. Because they are straight through you would lose some mid range torque. http://www.youtube.com/user/sssmour#p/u/1/uhzltjqc_1w
I have since fitted a SE Heavy breather and re-calibrated the TTS Mastertuner and did a 12.9 down the quarter at Willowbank last weekend. Very happy with the look of the pipes and heavy breather.

Some video back in Feb before I fitted the heavy breather.  Best run 13.2 http://www.youtube.com/user/sssmour#p/a/u/2/qsJMjJ1d_ns

 

once i can find them on ebay with cheap postage or a site with good postage will be good.

Some places are trying to charge 300-400 bucks.
so stupid

how does he process payments?

that was my main issue

Sounds good. I sent a quote request off before.

So hopefully hear back soon.

Probably order a few things from him is the service is as good as you say

hey guys, i recently bought the vance and hynes big radius pipes from M & M cycles, the best service ever, i have bought from mark before also, i got them landed to my door for 600 bucks in AUS, the aussie dealers ( Vance and Hynes) wanted nearly a grand from Australia.
i also have the TTS tuner and have completed my second V tune run on my bike with the heavy breather also and a complete stock motor and let me tell you i have definetly awakened the sleeping dragon.
bike looks great and goes like it never had before. I WILL recommend M&M for parts as long as you have the part no and my current setup on my 07 sportser custom was a very cheap and vastly improved performance enhancement. im happy as pig in shit, go for it DRAIN if thats what your after for your sporty, its your bike so you gotta customise it how you want.