Home made baffles and end caps for my CL77 Exhaust

[LOUD MOUSE]

That's his style for sure. ............lm

He's a character. He purchased some parts from Skarnuth on ebay and gave him a neg. He was crying that he was ripped off!!!

[mike horvath]

Rob,
Yer one clever, ingenious guy! They look great from all angles. I took a similar road with the VW tips. Bought 'em, extracted the baffle and simply tapped them into the original exhaust pipe, followed up with the left over half of the original baffle. Not as quiet as I had hoped, but certainly quieter by far than just the cut offs. My pipe tips are a little growdie too where they've been hacked off...oh well. Wisht I lived closer...I'd do what I could to persuade ya to do it again...heck, I'd even drive!

Mike

[LOUD MOUSE]

Those VW tips were used by us in the 60's. ...............lm

Rob,
Yer one clever, ingenious guy! They look great from all angles. I took a similar road with the VW tips. Bought 'em, extracted the baffle and simply tapped them into the original exhaust pipe, followed up with the left over half of the original baffle. Not as quiet as I had hoped, but certainly quieter by far than just the cut offs. My pipe tips are a little growdie too where they've been hacked off...oh well. Wisht I lived closer...I'd do what I could to persuade ya to do it again...heck, I'd even drive!

Mike

[Snakeoil]

Rob,
Yer one clever, ingenious guy! They look great from all angles. I took a similar road with the VW tips. Bought 'em, extracted the baffle and simply tapped them into the original exhaust pipe, followed up with the left over half of the original baffle. Not as quiet as I had hoped, but certainly quieter by far than just the cut offs. My pipe tips are a little growdie too where they've been hacked off...oh well. Wisht I lived closer...I'd do what I could to persuade ya to do it again...heck, I'd even drive!

Mike

Thanks Mike. But they are really nothing more than a pretty version of the internal baffles they sell for straight pipes. Even the original CL72 had baffles similar to this. They just used punched louvers instead of drilled holes. The main difference between mine and the commercially made baffles is I use an end cap to force all the exhaust flow thru the drilled holes.

I probably should make a video of the exhaust note with these in the bike and then make up a sketch so other can build them. Not sure if the mike on my little Sony camera will provide a good rendition of how the bike sounds.

regards,
Rob

[geosar]

I am at the point of reassembling the rest of the bike-66 CL77. I do not have Robs skill so what is the best approach to muffling the exhaust? Tim sells the slip-on mufflers which are very nice. I like the pipe look, however.

The only baffles I have found are snuff or nots sold by the fellow referred to earlier in this post. $50. Purchasing them from him does not seem to be a smart move.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

George

[Hotshoe]

I am at the point of reassembling the rest of the bike-66 CL77. I do not have Robs skill so what is the best approach to muffling the exhaust? Tim sells the slip-on mufflers which are very nice. I like the pipe look, however.

The only baffles I have found are snuff or nots sold by the fellow referred to earlier in this post. $50. Purchasing them from him does not seem to be a smart move.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

George

This is what I used George;

http://www.jcwhitney.com/internal-baffl ... 971y1967j1

I had to reduce the mounting neck OD a bit to make them fit but I did it using a hacksaw and a grinder so it's not that big a deal and at that cost I wasn't too worried about it if I ruined them.
Bottom line; once they're in they work great, easily opened up for tuning if desired and I'm not whittling on a original part.

[geosar]

Thank you Hotshoe,

What do you mean by "open them up"?

George