I also talked to Steve at Fullsac on the telephone today and ended up ordering the 2" cores, hopefully they will ship next week but first he has to confirm that the cores will work properly with the 09' exhaust (thanks tdowell65 for shipping your mufflers to Fullsac). I prefer a bit deeper/louder tone so I ordered the 2" core. As Texas 103 stated, the 1-3/4" cores might be better for longer touring, especially if you want to hear your radio/cd better. Steve said that he was not offering the 1-7/8", only the 1-3/4" and 2" cores for the 09' models. Steve sent me a few pictures of the process to replace the cores and it looks fairly easy to do and should only take about 1/2 hour to complete the process. Steve was very confidant that most anybody could replace their own cores...the end result is that the downtime will be minimal to do-it-yourself. Worst case would be that you could take your mufflers somewhere local and have them use a die grinder to grind the weld, go back home and put it back together and you are still out riding the same day.