Customizing exhaust

[Hornepayne]

I've heard many Ducatis with aftermarket exhaust systems. I know my Son added a Vance and Hines on his Fat Bob, and added a larger air breather. Did some set up on the bike as well. Is this truly necessary if all I'm looking for is a richer deeper growl.. If I modify the cans, Is it a must to do anything else?

[4theloveofducati]

If you are referring to doing this to you're new 848, I would suggest if you do pipes, get a power commander or a chip for the ecm to get it running properly. It may throw an emissions code possibly if you do only the pipes, but am not 100% sure of that!

[dcmills]

Agree. I have two Monsters. I swapped in an after market exhaust without allowance for the O2 sensor. The engine light came on right away. There are ways to add a resister to trick it out, but the best is to reprogram with the ECM.

[webb70]

I've heard many Ducatis with aftermarket exhaust systems. I know my Son added a Vance and Hines on his Fat Bob, and added a larger air breather. Did some set up on the bike as well. Is this truly necessary if all I'm looking for is a richer deeper growl.. If I modify the cans, Is it a must to do anything else?

If you are just going to modify the original cans you will not have any problems or error codes.
This will give you the nice deep sound you are looking for at a fraction of the cost of replacing them with aftermarket.

I dissasembled and "cored" the stock exhaust on my track bike and it sounds identical to the overpriced Termi system I put on my street bike......