Old Car and Bike rambling

left over welds from perforated screen At the end of part 1 of 'Exhaust Tinkering' I thought I was going to run the spiral flow muffler, but I couldn't come up with a way of mounting that muffler securely so I pulled it off. I think I need to weld a tab to aid in mounting, but ultimately didn't like how it looked. I picked up this 2.5" Resonated Exhaust tip by DC Sports a little bit after posting Part 1 because I liked the look of a short muffler on my cb750 Brat build. Unfortunately, it was way too loud when I installed it and went for a ride around the neighborhood. I tried to weld on some perforated sheet metal over the outlet but it really didn't do a darn thing.  Sure, it was slightly less loud compared to having nothing on the end of the exhaust header. Even with the baffle insert tucked in the header, it was just embarrassing to see my neighbors come out to see who was on that obnoxious motorcycle coming down the street and the children making faces whi