Hi all,
Saturday is #newbikeday ! Can’t wait 😝
Bike will be a zero-mile 2022 CVO Street Glide in Blue Steel. So with the scorched chrome.
I come from a 2018 RK Classic with Street Cannons with the baffles (the shorter cones) removed, so I’ll probably will want something louder than stock.
Not even sure though, never heard the bike running.
But there are a few things to consider:
1. I’m in Belgium and not all the fine US goodies are available here.
2. I’m wondering if there’s a difference in the exhaust system between the US and Belgium (1HD vs 5HD). From my RK I think recalling something like some bikes have cats in the headers, and others in the mufflers, and one system not fitting onto the other. but that could also have been about the SE headers and mufflers.
3. I would prefer something that is reversible. Since this year, when you sell your bike in Belgium, it has to pass a check. And one of the things they check is exhaust.
4. I would like to keep my stock heat shields in scorched chrome on the bike
5. Just bought an expensive bike (cvo’s are 50k USD at current course here). So I would prefer not to break the bank on the exhaust.
So I’ve red a lot and came to a short list:
1. Tab performance 4.5 BAM with zombie baffles. I read in the comments of a YT video that the stock heat shields fit on these. Problem is that there are no EU resellers for this, so I’ll have to pay quite a lot for shipping and customs.
2. Fullsac: never heard of it before, but consensus seems to be that they work great in this case.
Problem with these is that I will be altering my stock mufflers. I read everywhere how easy it is to replace the stock cores by Fullsac, but could not find the other way around. Is this reversible? Not sure about the screw that holds the cores in place being allowed by the law here.
Same issue, no EU resellers, but lower value so lower customs and vat.
Ideal would be to score a set of second hand cvo mufflers and do the fullsac on these and keep my stocks for later.
I see a lot of used cvo mufflers on ebay (take-offs?) but all in the us. Nobody is selling any cvo mufflers here (lot less cvo’s here off course).
Any EU riders here? What did you do?
Any other options I did not thought of?
✌️ride safe