I got the Silent Riider exhaust silencer install but did not actually fasten it to the muffler shield as a test to check on fit and sound before I started drilling joles.
Does it work - ABSOLUTELY YES. The sound level is now fairly constant from idle to 4000 rpm. You hear more motor than exhaust than before. I really like the results. It passed the wife test. I also want to try to do a A-B sound video but only if I am in the mood tomorrow,
Does it fit perfectly - not quite, When you insert the pipe into the Gator all the way up, the Silent Rider is higher up on the muffler than the images shown by Silent Rider, I am not sure if the JD exhaust is different than earlier when the designed but the silent naturally wants to install an angle, If you reduce the penetration in JD exhaust it will mount similar. Ideally the silence inlet pipe needs a slightly different angle so the silencer bolts parallel to the exhaust shield, If you lower it (less pipe into Gator pipe) it does drop lower but also the angle improves.
Since I did not feel much exhaust leak at the connection, I will likely drop it down some and bolt it in place, The muffler mounted bolts will hold it in place. The clamp does not provide much value.
Update: I did recheck the Silent Rider web site and looks like they have the clamp over the connection rather than around the neck. I will look at that.
If you notice the white mark on the silencer, the cargo bed when in the up position does hit the silencer heat shield. The interface is less than a 1/16-inch so not that much.
The pipe on the riding that inserts in the gator is not slotted so you have hard pipe over the JD pipe so the JD clamp really does not secure the pipes together like spark arrester on the stock Gator.
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Silent Rider 825i image:
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Does it work - ABSOLUTELY YES. The sound level is now fairly constant from idle to 4000 rpm. You hear more motor than exhaust than before. I really like the results. It passed the wife test. I also want to try to do a A-B sound video but only if I am in the mood tomorrow,
Does it fit perfectly - not quite, When you insert the pipe into the Gator all the way up, the Silent Rider is higher up on the muffler than the images shown by Silent Rider, I am not sure if the JD exhaust is different than earlier when the designed but the silent naturally wants to install an angle, If you reduce the penetration in JD exhaust it will mount similar. Ideally the silence inlet pipe needs a slightly different angle so the silencer bolts parallel to the exhaust shield, If you lower it (less pipe into Gator pipe) it does drop lower but also the angle improves.
Since I did not feel much exhaust leak at the connection, I will likely drop it down some and bolt it in place, The muffler mounted bolts will hold it in place. The clamp does not provide much value.
Update: I did recheck the Silent Rider web site and looks like they have the clamp over the connection rather than around the neck. I will look at that.
If you notice the white mark on the silencer, the cargo bed when in the up position does hit the silencer heat shield. The interface is less than a 1/16-inch so not that much.
The pipe on the riding that inserts in the gator is not slotted so you have hard pipe over the JD pipe so the JD clamp really does not secure the pipes together like spark arrester on the stock Gator.
Silent Rider 825i image:
