Removing baffles from Akropovich exhause

[caw001]

Has anybody ever removed the baffles from an Akropovich exhaust on a Spyder? I have a 2014 and am considering removing them however I'm not sure how involved a task it is...

Thank you.

[cmungen]

please dont do it. you have a great sound with what you have. you will not improve performance and may even reduce it.

for sure you will make noise and pissoff the public and make it difficult for the rest of us riders.

[BikerDoc]

I have the baffles out of mine and the sound is great . the public reaction has been very favorable including my wife (which I must admit surprised me).. It had no negative affect on performance and simply made the sound a little more throaty.....

[caw001]

Got my top one out... Bottom one is giving me a bit more trouble. Doesn't seem much louder, just a little deeper.. A little less like something out of the Jetsons...

[WARWAGON]

I have the baffles out of mine and the sound is great . the public reaction has been very favorable including my wife (which I must admit surprised me).. It had no negative affect on performance and simply made the sound a little more throaty.....

How hard is it to do? Just wandering.

[caw001]

Making it so they will come out is easy, just remove the two screws on the outside of the tailpipe (inside facing back wheel). Then it's just a shimmy and pull. But all the shimmy-ing in the world is not getting my second one out.

The top one came out with little issue...

[caw001]

How hard is it to do? Just wandering.

I finally got both of them out. If I would have done on the first one what I ended up doing on the second one it would have been a 5 min job. After wrestling (shimmy-shake) with the second one for about an hour, I finally grabbed it with a pair of vice grips - 2 taps on the grips and it came right out.

Not hardly any louder, but she has a lot deeper voice...

[PaladinLV]

From the videos I've seen , they are held in place by a set screw!

AJ

Making it so they will come out is easy, just remove the two screws on the outside of the tailpipe (inside facing back wheel). Then it's just a shimmy and pull. But all the shimmy-ing in the world is not getting my second one out.

The top one came out with little issue...

[Dan McNally]

Mine look like this. One setscrew holds each one in . . . if they were in. Mine spend their days in a poly bag in my garage!

[BikerDoc]

I finally got both of them out. If I would have done on the first one what I ended up doing on the second one it would have been a 5 min job. After wrestling (shimmy-shake) with the second one for about an hour, I finally grabbed it with a pair of vice grips - 2 taps on the grips and it came right out.

Not hardly any louder, but she has a lot deeper voice...

glad you got the second one out.. I was surprised by your trouble since mine came out quickly and easily....

[Huddleston]

I generally keep my baffles in, but, sometimes I like to take them out. They can be reinstalled without the screws. I find that with both of them out, it is a little louder than I want at times. So, I sometimes take one out and that is ok too. Bottom line is, if I take them out, I just keep them in the trunk, because sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I don't.

[SPECTACUALR SPIDERMAN]

sounds more h/d like, may piss off neighbors at 7am on a sunday ride

[NSPYTE]

The reason they can be tough to get out is that they are tack welded in place. If you look at the photo above you can see the tack. The top on of mine was easy coming out but the bottom one took a little modding of an 8mm socket (grind the tapered end flat) to go onto the bolt to break the tack weld loose. If you drop the bolt in the can (i did), just use a parts magnet thru the carbon fiber and fish it to the hole. Its not loud at all, it sounds awesome...my wife does say though it gets a bit old on the back when going for long distances.

[caw001]

So now that I have driven to work with my baffles out, I have to say I am sooooo happy I removed them. First off, the noise is not hardly even a factor. It's really not much louder, just deeper.

The positive effect this has had and I'm not sure why is the she now shifts like dream. There is no jump, lurch forward or back and it doesn't matter how hard or soft I am on the trottle. You barely feel it.

Very happy I did this.

- Chris

[caw001]

Mine look like this. One setscrew holds each one in . . . if they were in. Mine spend their days in a poly bag in my garage!

Mine were immediately placed in a ziplock bag and stuffed into my box of spyder parts I am not likely to see again...

[AY4B]

Mine were out on day 2. I have no plans on putting them back in. I have read about that tack weld but did not have any trouble getting them to break loose. I bought mine from a dealer that had them in an open box. Im thinking it was previously installed on another spyder for demo purposes, and the baffolds were removed then once.

[AY4B]

I dropped my silencer when I installed it and had to replace the tip. It took forever to get to me and took a LOT of effort to replace. Getting the damaged one out was hard enough, Putting the new one in and perfectly in place was harder. Its done though and just like new again.

[AY4B]

I cleaned it with WD 40 just like the directions said. Wow, It looked so much better.