Sportster 48 Exhaust Change?

I have a 2010 Sportster 48 which I love, but it's too quiet. I have decided to change the pipes to the common but much loved Vance and Hines Black Shortshots. Until I can afford a new air cleaner and tuner, I want to just install the pipes.



I know I'll lose performance, but the dealer told me that if I install just the pipes I should add the Quiet Baffles which alter the flow and should therefore operate better than the standard baffles.



Does that sound right?Sportster 48 Exhaust Change?
Jonathon think about this logically.Your stock exhaust has X amount of restrictive back pressure,which also has a little to do with decibels also.So you want to buy a better(louder)pipe to put on but you are going to put a quiet baffle in it.Is it just me or did you just fork out some money for a new pipe that has a baffle in it that is similar to the one in the stock pipe.I guess I don't get the reasoning behind this except that you want to have some Vance-Hines pipes on them.Why don't you just wait until you have all the cheese and do it all at the same time cause believe me,you will need a bit of tuning done to it to make it right. Last year I was at a big bike show--I saw a lot of people around the Vance-Hines tent.They were offering almost 50% off to any one who wanted to get their bike done at the show so people could see and witness all that was involved in the change over.One brave soul stepped out and gave them the nod to go ahead with his bike.This was 11 am- So I watched for ten minutes or so and went for a walk to see all the bikes.An hour later we kept hearing this really loud bike that had a tremendous backfire every time they let off the gas-we thought it was a fire shooter.This was all going on at the V-H tent on this guys poor bike.3 hours this went on until the guy said he had heard enough they couldn't get the tuning down correctly and this was a V-H tech.They put the old stuff back on and the bike ran like a champ.Just a thought!Sportster 48 Exhaust Change?
Just don't do it. Loud pipes are terrible for our sport. Your bike will gain very little performance with a pipe change. It will gain a bunch of annoyance factor.Sportster 48 Exhaust Change?
Yes and you may not need to remap the injection system.
Leave the air intake alone and you won't need to remap..