jtmiyake
Member
Hello. I have had a few posts on this subject. My first one was about the horrible rattle in my muffler. Seems the internals came apart and the bike got a lot louder. So I then researched muffler options. I ended up purchasing the HUSH cat muffler from Zoom.
Installed this new muffler yesterday. I have to say it is much quieter now. Not sure if quiter than stock but quieter than my broken up muffler. I seem to have a problem thou. It seems there is so much restriction in this muffler that I have now completely lost power and upper rpms. I can barely get the bike to 20mph and can hardly climb a slight incline.
In addition, this muffler runs supper hot as one might expect with a catalytic converter built into it. After a 5-minute ride it was already burning the paint off the muffler. Something seemed wrong so I brought back home to determine what to do next.
Any suggestions? I am thinking I will let it cool down and open it up. This one looks like it can be opened as there is a bolt on the end and appears to be a flange on the bottom.
Installed this new muffler yesterday. I have to say it is much quieter now. Not sure if quiter than stock but quieter than my broken up muffler. I seem to have a problem thou. It seems there is so much restriction in this muffler that I have now completely lost power and upper rpms. I can barely get the bike to 20mph and can hardly climb a slight incline.
In addition, this muffler runs supper hot as one might expect with a catalytic converter built into it. After a 5-minute ride it was already burning the paint off the muffler. Something seemed wrong so I brought back home to determine what to do next.
Any suggestions? I am thinking I will let it cool down and open it up. This one looks like it can be opened as there is a bolt on the end and appears to be a flange on the bottom.