September 16, 2005
Fishtail Muffler
Ever since I got the Savage I have been looking to replacing the muffler -- it was too big around and too short. After months of looking I finally nailed a single HD fishtail muffler off of Ebay. It was listed as for a HD Twin, but since there only only the one no one bid on it except me. $9.95 plus $10 shipping. Toss in $7.76 for clamps/sealer from Kragen and it mounted and looks, in my opinion, good.
It has a nice boomy sound so the Savage no longer sounds like a lawnmower. Unfortunately Wendy thought it was a little too loud. Her first words to me when I got home the first day was something along the lines of "so when are you putting the stock muffler back on?" To appease her I went to the Home Depot and got a copper pipe adapter, 1.5" to 1" reducer. Added a bit of aluminum screen, shoved it up the tail pipe to add a little more baffling.