[bbqbrisket]

Installing V&H Quiet Baffles
has become nothing but a big nightmare.
Before thinking about switching over to them.
First look at the comments from V&H. The quiet baffles were only done as a response to folks requesting something more quiet than the stock baffles. Ie. they really don't want to make them but feel they had to. That should be your first clue. There is little or no support if you buy them.
If you decide to go with them (and I suggest you don't), make sure you tape the entire area where the fiberglass is completely covered with tape, not just the two little pieces they supply or else the baffle fiberglass will get jammed up in the exhaust and will not do what they are designed to do. Not only that, but you will never be able to get them out without destroying either the baffles or worse yet, the entire exhaust system (which I did). If that is not enough, just know even if you do get them installed correctly, they only take down about 2 to 3 db's which is nothing in the db world.
I am now working with the possibility of using the Hard Kore Quiet Baffles. We'll see.

 

[HYPR]

Installing V&H Quiet Baffles
has become nothing but a big nightmare.
Before thinking about switching over to them.
First look at the comments from V&H. The quiet baffles were only done as a response to folks requesting something more quiet than the stock baffles. Ie. they really don't want to make them but feel they had to. That should be your first clue. There is little or no support if you buy them.
If you decide to go with them (and I suggest you don't), make sure you tape the entire area where the fiberglass is completely covered with tape, not just the two little pieces they supply or else the baffle fiberglass will get jammed up in the exhaust and will not do what they are designed to do. Not only that, but you will never be able to get them out without destroying either the baffles or worse yet, the entire exhaust system (which I did). If that is not enough, just know even if you do get them installed correctly, they only take down about 2 to 3 db's which is nothing in the db world.
I am now working with the possibility of using the Hard Kore Quiet Baffles. We'll see.

I installed mine specifically because I did not care for the raspy sound and the "Quite Baffles" removed the raspy edge to the sound and returned a very throaty deep tone. As far as quite goes well as you correctly stated they didn't do much and after a few miles I would be willing to bet, nothing. The deeper tone is what I was after.
Now as far as removing them goes, you are best to use a slide hammer after first letting the pipes cool and slightly heat the outside of the pipe up about 6" from the end.
Bob

 

[Road King Cole]

If this was your first experience removing and installing baffles, yes they can be a pain (all companies).

I also wished the baffles were a little quieter, but they are what they are and I have learned to like the sound. BTW, I also tried the hard kore and didn't like them. I tried them with the standard and quiet baffle. They did refund my money.

rkc

 

[BOUTYM]

If this was your first experience removing and installing baffles, yes they can be a pain (all companies).

I also wished the baffles were a little quieter, but they are what they are and I have learned to like the sound. BTW, I also tried the hard kore and didn't like them. I tried them with the standard and quiet baffle. They did refund my money.

rkc

What didn't you like about the Hard Kore's? I've also been looking at these for my pro pipe.

 

[Road King Cole]

What didn't you like about the Hard Kore's? I've also been looking at these for my pro pipe.

They didn't seem to be any quieter than my quiet baffles when used with the regular baffles, didn't care for the sound and performance was questionable. When used along with the quiet baffles it was a little quieter, but it really choked the bike. It felt like it couldn't breath and lost a lot of it's performance.

Others swear by them, I swore at them. I had high hopes because I loved the idea of a high performance quiet baffle that didn't have packing that will need to be replaced in the future.

rkc

 

[Patsplace]

One of the guys posted a thing a while back where he said that he was using the material that is used to gasket a stove door to rewrap his baffles and it was lasting. Haven't gone that route yet and I have noticed a substantial sound difference when I went to the S&S 106" kit.

 

[desiday]

What's a slide hammer?

 

[HDMoneyPit]

I'm ordering the quiet baffles this weekend, i hope i dont have the fight on my hands that you all have, i know baffles can be a bitch to take out sometimes, anyways i shall see how it goes in about a week or so when they come in.

 

[gunnysgt]

Desiday a slide hammer is a tool that was used to pull dents or remove lock cylinders. It's basically a metal shaft about 1/2" thick with a heavy cast weight around the shaft. They usually have a chuck at the end. You attach the end with the chuck to the baffle and pull the weight back on the shaft til it "bottoms out". this gives pulling force to unwedge the baffles. Hope that helps ya

 

[Lefty]

I was unimpressed w/the quiet baffles on a previous bike. As a previous poster inferred, they should be called anti-raspy baffles rather than quiet baffles. Gotta admit they do take the noise from raspy to the kind of sound you want if you like 'em loud, low and evil.

Remembering that bike is giving me a headache.

 

[desiday]

Desiday a slide hammer is a tool that was used to pull dents or remove lock cylinders. It's basically a metal shaft about 1/2" thick with a heavy cast weight around the shaft. They usually have a chuck at the end. You attach the end with the chuck to the baffle and pull the weight back on the shaft til it "bottoms out". this gives pulling force to unwedge the baffles. Hope that helps ya

Thank you. This just goes to prove that I don't know everything. I guess my wife is right! LOL :spank:

 

[desiday]

Talking about the V&H quiet baffles. I had them on my Softail Duals that I just sold. I really like the tone they put out. Now I'm getting the Big Shots Long and I'm debating on the V&H quiets again, or the Big City Thunder QQ's. Does anybody know how they compare in noise level and tone? I do have a post on here asking that, but nobody responded as of yet.

 

[bbqbrisket]

Update on quieting baffles on big shots

Here's what I finally did that worked out beautifully. The sound is better than I imagined.
After removing the V&H quiet baffles, I cut 2 inches off the end of the original baffles that came with the Big Shots (the end with the screw holes in them). I then bought a pair of 8 inch dragster baffles that were about $15. I then welded the 2 inches I cut off to the dragster baffles by taking them to a welder I found in the yellow pages ($15). I then wrapped the dragster baffles with "oven" or "furnace" rope from someone on EBay ($6) as someone suggested sometime ago and tied down the ends with some small gauge sold core wire. This turned out to be a nice sound dampener and reduced the twanginess.
On top of this, I piggybacked Hard Kore Quiet Baffles ($50) to them.
(I did originally try installing the Hard Kore by themselves and I still did not like them even though they reduced the sound several db's. That's why I had them for the job)
Incredible.
Yes, there is some money in to them but after the nightmare of a hard 4 hours cutting out the V&H Quiet baffles and burned fiberglass and metal stuck in the exhaust, this was well worth it; deep, throaty and just loud enough that even your neighbors will like the sound.
And just in case, they are an easy remove if necessary.

 

[BOUTYM]

I never thought of using the rope for baffles. That's a great idea, but how do you keep it in place?

 

[bbqbrisket]

using the rope for baffles. how do you keep it in place?

Thin gauge solid core wire...like picture wire for eg.

There is both flat rope and round. I used flat because I thought it would pack neater.

Cut off enough to wrap one piece around each end of the baffle.

about 3 times.
thread the end of each wire through the rope and then through the baffle. Then wrap wire around the baffle.

and then twist the wire about 3 times to secure it.
The attached photo shows how I did it ( a little messy).