| I've been thinking about how the
engine sounds lately and wondered what it might be like with a different
set of mufflers. I only have a limited amount of room between the X
members where the mufflers are (which is 4 1/2") and would have to
buy something that would fit between them, so I started looking at what's
out there. What I found were some made by
Borla which is what I have now
but a different model. The new ones are the
XR-1 race versions and are
very close in dimension to my current ones. After ordering them and
checking them out, there are two things that are going to be a problem.
First thing, the new ones have a center inlet and outlet but my old ones
have a center inlet and offset outlet. The second thing is the new
containers are 1/4" higher or taller than the old ones are.
At this point, I have to make a decision if I want
to keep them or not because if I want to send them back for any reason,
I won't be able to modify them in anyway so it was time to figure out if
they were going to work or not.
The first thing I did was test fit the mufflers to
see if they would fit between the X member and sure enough, it was too
tight. If you look below, you'll see the drive shaft hoop mounted on the
top surface of the lower X member. That bracket is 1/4" thick so I
thought by taking it out, that would give me enough clearance. Even
after removing the drive shaft hoop, the mufflers were still to tight.
Now I know that I could fix that but it would mean denting the outside
of the mufflers to make a small amount of clearance in them. But
if I did that, then they would be mine and I wouldn't be able to return
them so I had to give that some thought. The next thing I checked was to
see if the center outlet was going to be a problem or not. I did manage
to install the exhaust system to where it looked like it would work so
now the decision is, do I want to modify my drive shaft hoop and dent
the mufflers? Well denting the mufflers would be easy but changing the
way the drive shaft hoop bolted up is another.
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