GoFasturnLeft

Hey, let me be honest. After reading the great advice and viewing the pictures from the previous posts, I was cornfused twice as much as anybody. My 2007 Venture is a perfect candidate for the Barron's 4 to 2 to 4 Nasty Boy set up only problem is, I ain't got an extra $500 for the set of slip on's and another $200 for the cool tips. So I ponied up and bought a new Dremmel 3000 for $49 bucks and a Diamond Cutting Wheel for another $20 and some other reinforced metal cutting wheels and convinced myself if I screwed it up bad enough that I had an excuse to buy the Barron's. Got to have back-up. First problem I encountered was the diameter of the cutting wheel is larger than the exhaust tube in the center of the pipe so I just ground it down a little at a time until it was small enough to fit inside. She said tight ain't it baby, my reply was no ***** it's full!! Be prepared to kill a dozen or so of the standard fragile cutting wheels to begin with as the have no flexibility and will shatter before you know what happened, this is your training before you risk damaging the Diamond Wheel. I didn't bother measuring, I just started slowly cutting just before my Dremmel bottomed out or closed the exhaust hole off to leave me just enough room to see what was happening with the aid of a flashlight. Just when you get a good straight slice in the first wall which took about 20 minutes, you think this is easy as pie. Not so fast, there is a second even thicker wall to the tube and maybe I wasn't up in there far enough, (that's what she said). But I pressed on eventually getting one side done before I used up all of my discs except for the Diamond Special. After resuming the work a few days later and getting the other side cut free, you literally pry the loose tube inside over to one side and access more of the tube toward the front of the bike to get it clear as far as you can to one side and that's it. Can i tell you at idle not much difference, but you get on the road and open it up and it had to be a 30% gain in the sound. I just wanted to wind out each gear as far as I could stand to, over & over. I bought this bike because I was so impressed the way the 4 cylinder engine sounded in stock form when I test rode it, almost like a car. But now, I have no need for an exhaust upgrade so, I'm buying tires & brakes and fuel...Time to light the pipes & roll!!...GoFasturnLeft