Car Chemistry Header Baffles

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I have a pair of the Car Chemistry baffles in my megaphone headers, and they can be configured three ways with the caps for the center pipe, plus the area between the baffle plates can be wrapped with high temp fiberglass and/or stainless steel wool to tone them down "...2 to 4 decibles." Mine have the three baffle plates plus the solid cap on the outer end, which forces all of the exhaust through the tube and baffle plates. It was still pretty loud for town, so I first wrapped "Chore Girl" SS scrubbers around the baffles, four to a side, and it did not do much - too coarse I believe, so I called a local motorcycle shop to see if they had any muffler packing material. They sold me a a couple of sheets of high temp fiberglass and said it would work great for any performance muffler It was better, but seemed to be getting progressively louder and I noticed a few bits of fiberglass blown out when I blipped it so I ordered a couple of Car Chemistry's stainless steel wool packs. Got the package yesterday and they had sent me the two SS wool packs I ordered, plus another package that had six SS mesh split "washers" to cover the baffle holes to help prevent blow thorugh, and a package that had two sheets of quite dense fiberglass mat, about 12"x14" or so all at no added cost. Ken Mullinex is a great guy, and knows his stuff!
Took the first baffle out and busted out laughing - every scrap of the "high temperature fiberglass" was gone, blown out through the six 1/2" holes in the baffle plates, leaving four SS wires rattling on the tube Following the CC instructions I put a tight wrap of SS wool around the tube between the baffle plates followed by a couple of layers of the fiberglass mat, all wired tight with SS safety wire. It toned it down some - always going to be a bit loud in the car with the exhaust right at the leading edge of the doors, but now I can point to bikes that are louder than my car I expect this packing to last more than a week, too...