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Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
I'm thinking about changing my exhaust. Who can tell me about Roadhouse? I'm leaning towards the 2-into-1 (really like that classic look), but want to know all the differences between that and the duals. Same horsepower? Same sound? Same quality?

To all of you familiar with the Roadhouse line, please give me all the pros and cons you've got.

Thanks all....greeny
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
Any exhaust - 2 into 1 will give you better torque than 2 into 2.
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
Greeny

I have nothing but praise about the doolies the sound great and look even better.
Performance wise they are much better than the stage 3 stock.
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
Greeny,I've got the Roadhouse classic slip-ons. They sound good and you can get different baffels. When I can scrape up the money I'm going to get the doolies.
Musky has a point though about the 2 into 1. Musky I'm glad you got your bike
back running again
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
I just put on the 2-1 classic with the "serrated" covers and the shark-fin tip this spring & I couldn't be happier. Awesome sound, but not too loud until you give the throttle a good twist ! Looks great, installs easily, seems quite well thought out. Also, I like the fact that I didn't just bolt on the same old boring set of drag pipes that everyone and their uncle seems to be runing these days. With my roadie being an '05 Midnight Cdn Silverado Edition, the pipes just look right with the studded seat, light bar, hard bags, etc, etc. And in combination with the jet kit & air filter I can feel a definite increase in power through the rev range. I was running the same setup before but with stage III stock pipes (which are, of course, for sale by the way).

If I had one recommendation, it would be this: If you get the serrated covers, wrap the headpipes with some of that heat shield wrap before installing the covers. They fit loosly over the headpipes and they can rattle a bit over bad bumps like railroad tracks, etc. I'm thinking the heatwrap would eliminate this irritance, as well as protecting the covers from excessive heat. I've heard that the hotter you can keep the exhaust gasses until they exit the pipes, the better for power. Don't know if thats true or not . . . .but there you go, thats my $0.02 anyway.

Rup<br><br>Post edited by: Ruprect, at: 2007/07/16 21:14
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
If my pipes fell off today I would go get another set of Dooleys....Coug
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
Cool...thanks to everyone for their input. I'm leaning more towards the 2-into-1 for mulitple reasons. For one, more torgue is always a good thing. I mainly like it for the look though. As Ruprect said, I think it will just look right with my bike. I've always liked the old-school look in motorcycles and really like the design of the canister on the Roadhouse. I've heard some scuttle about the serrated shields and will stay away from them. I hear the color up pretty fast and are a bear to clean with all the nooks and crannys.

I appreciate you all....

....greeny
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
Love my Doolies.Sure BigBear will chime in when he see`s this post he has the 2 into 1 RoadHouse
 
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Re:Roadhouse Exhaust 4 Years, 10 Months ago  
Cougar wrote:
If my pipes fell off today I would go get another set of Dooleys....Coug

If they plan on falling off anytime soon please park in my garage when they do.

I'm going to get some Doolies, I wonder if I should order them now for fall/winter arrival. They seem to be backordered pretty heavy right now.
 
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