Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: RE: There's life back in that old girl

Author: Rob Prins

Date: Apr 30, 2005, 6:22 AM

Post ID: 1718790639



Tom,
I installed the JCW reverse cone kinda Dunstall looking units last year.
Not sure if these are what you have or not. I found them too loud for
my taste (especially if the fairing was on). I eventually found a used
set of OE mufflers at Mid-Ohio that I am currently using (on Charlies
advice). They cost $35 - $45 and look like it, but they sound ok and
they're easier on my eardrums.
Rob
Halchuk wrote:
 
After many year$ of dinking around with the Eldo I finally got it
together.
I have been biting at the bit all day at work. Just waiting to get home
and
throw some gas in it and hit the starter button. Well I did and the
thing
ROARED to life.
The Dunstall mufflers clones I got look like Dunstall but sound like
straight pipes. My neighbor, the old girl, was sitting on her patio
with
her little FiFi like dog on her lap. When I awakened the beast inside
the
Eldo the dog flew off the old lady's lap hit the table spelled a pitcher
of
some sort of drink everywhere. The dog was gone. The sweet little old
lady
just about fell over in her chair. I couldn't help but start laughing.
A
little later she came over and in that sweet little old lady voice says"

kinda loud isn't Dear?"

So needless to say the mufflers just plain SUCK. No baffling at all.
I
may have recommended the original Dunstalls in the past but now I have
to
take that back. The bike sounds terrible with these on them. My T3
sounded
great with the original Dunstalls. Maybe it was the crossover? Don't
know.

So I now have to find something that will actually muffle the exhaust.
I
know somewhere in there is a sweet Italian voice.
Tom in Boston

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