About Us & Opinions at Other exhaust

Hacker custom exhaust and power products LLC, (Formerly Hackerpipes) is a world leader in aftermarket performance exhaust technology. Our goal is not to be the biggest manufacturer, but to provide the rider with the highest quality exhaust systems that have exceptional performance, sound, and style. Our Design engineer, Ronnie Hacker has over 40 years experience in riding, building high performance engines, and high performance exhaust systems. Combine his experience with some of our share holders and Hacker Custom Exhaust has nearly 60 years combined experience in performance exhaust. Hacker Custom Exhaust offers a variety styles for numerous motorcycle makes and models, all with performance built in. Hacker Custom Exhaust is the only exhaust manufacturer that allows the rider to choose power bands, finishes and tips, making the product suit the rider’s personality and overall look of their bike. All Hacker Custom Exhaust and are handmade in the USA and come with the best warranty in the market. Contact us to see how they can make your bike stand apart from the crowd in performance, sound, and styling.

OPINIONS: All opinions belong to the owners and are just opinions. If you are sue happy , a wimp, or just plain do not have any backbone, then don't read any further, maybe riding bikes aint your thing.

LOUD PIPES:

Great topic with several point of views. Here is ours:

LOUD PIPES SAVE LIVES. PERIOD. Our politicians are trying to get loud pipes off the road. Why? Because they interupt cell phone conversations, putting on make up or any number of dumb ass reason why cage drivers are not paying attention. Loud pipes are they only way the idiots on their cell phones know us bikers are on the road (I can't even count how many times I have been riding hard in the fast lane, and some dolt drifts into my lane right in front of me doing 30 mph slower then I am going!!!). Politicians hear this: The public is tired of more useless F----- laws being passed. We riders, are tired of getting Killed and maimed by Drivers who are lost in cell phone conversations. Why don't you non riders stop regulating us riders and regulate yourselves.! You want to play fair; FAR More people are killed in car accidents than motorcycles. Pass helmet laws for all car and truck passengers. Pass sound regulations for all vehicles that have 4 or more wheels (Bikers need loud pipes, leave us alone!) this including LOUD stereos. No cell phones, a tach in every vehicle, no smoking, (by the way smokers cause more than their fare share of accidents by fishing for cigarettes, or a light. I too used to smoke!), no eating or drinking beverages while driving, (spill that hot coffee in your crotch and then WATCH your car weave all over the road!) So politicians, stop passing useless laws, and start monitoring yourselves. (Politicians.. do you remember this: "By the people for the people". Every law that is passed adds to the tax payers burden. We already have enough burden. Stop taking our freedoms, stop trying to regulate our bikes and stop wasting our hard earned tax dollars, the government is already taking too much of our hard earned money!!!

INTEGRITY:

This is word that used to mean Trustworthy, a man of his word. The word "Integrity" seems to have little or no meaning in the bike community anymore, very few companies actually have any INTEGRITY. We have shaken the hand of several business owners and signed legal docs to do business with some of these companies. We later found out that their handshake and their word totally worthless, the legal docs they signed were just mere a waste of our f----- time, and they had no intention of standing behind the promises they made, nor the contracts they signed. There are still several of these spineless POS's still in this industry, watch out for them.

Here is how we want and like to do business: Place a PO, take delivery of said PO and then pay for what was ordered. Sounds pretty simple eh?

Lets talk about "HEAT", not packin heat, but ENGINE HEAT:

Most V twins on the market today are air cooled just like they were since their inception about a hundred years ago. Back then the engines did not put out the power like they do now, heat was really not a serious problem. REMEMBER THIS: POWER CREATES HEAT: THE MORE POWER YOUR BIKE HAS, THE MORE HEAT IT GENERATES Our government in their so called wisdom has decided to make our air cooled V Twins run super lean so they do not pollute the air we breathe (Thanks Harley-Davidson for helping to pass federal noise and EPA regulations for motorcycles!) BIG PROBLEM; These are air cooled engines. air cooled engines do not eliminate heat the way WATER COOLED CAR AND TRUCK ENGINES DO.

NOW; You want to add performance pipes on your V Twin that is already to lean, that means more heat! No problem for us as we know how to tune engines to the proper air/fuel mixture. We offer our AMS for all makes of bikes, which makes it super easy to set to 13.5 to 1 air/fuel mixture.

We stand behind our product 100 percent, but if you do not follow our instructions.,and the bike is improperly tuned and you burn the pipes up, this is a direct tuning issue and not a Manufacturing defect. We have received dealer returns where the pipe has actually melted the headpipes, or burned off the ceramics. to burn of ceramics the exhaust temp has to go over 1800 degrees, a properly tuned engine will have head pipes temp at the heads about 600-700 degrees, no more. LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY TUNE THE ENGINES!!!! IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, ASK US. QUIT BLAMING US FOR YOUR TUNING ERRORS AND BLUING THE EXHAUST. We had one dealer send back pipes that were Blued all the way down past the collector, (IF YOU START SEEING BLUE THAT FAR DOWN, STOP, YOUR BIKE IS WAY TOO LEAN!), then the dealer told us that he tuned to 13.5 to 1 air/fuel mixture and the pipes still burn't up. The dealer sent us the dyno to prove where it was set. Funny thing is, the dyno had a date 9 months before the pipes were purchased, and it even stated it was a stock bike run. NOW WHO IS PULLING WHO'S LEG? What did the dealer in Arizona do, run the dyno with psychic inability (stupidity?) WOW! Simply amazing. Better make sure this dealers ability to tune has improved before giving this shop your bike.

HEATSHIELDS:

Slapping on a fat set of heatshields to stop Bluing of the exhaust, is just a band-aid. Unless your bike has been properly tuned, chances are your bike is running far to lean and you can install all the blushields you want, the engine is going to perform lousy, and run excessively hot, and backfire... Besides that, a fat heatshield adds ZERO extra power, ask any racer or tuner. Heatshields are supposed to keep the heat from your leg, not cover up lean tuning issues....Hacker Custom Exhaust provides heatshields for all of our exhaust!

PRODUCT AVAILABILITY:

We usually have our full array of exhaust in stock, once in a while, we may run out of something, but we usually have work in process on all stock that is low. We have noticed recently that some dealers are telling customers that they cannot get our products... NOT TRUE, the truth of the matter is far from what the dealer has told you, the buyer. Its far easier for the dealer to punk us, rather than tell you their CC is maxed out and the dealer can't buy anything). We have been seeing alot of this lately; Dealers will basically BS the buyer into paying for items they don't need, telling them its performance, when in fact it is not (How Vic dealers can sell the Vic brand curved pipes as high performance and keep a straight face, is beyond us!!)... dealers who pull this crap are NOT doing you riders any favors at all!!

If your dealer cannot or will not order our pipes for you, you can order direct from us.

BUYING USA MADE PRODUCTS:

With over 7 million Americans out of work since Jan 08, we think its high time to stop supporting the so called USA based companies who take their parts and have them built outside the United States. Some of the biggest names in the bike industry have their garbage built overseas...WHY? to to increase their profit margin, they don't give a rats ass about our economy!

We get offers all the time to have our products knocked off outside the USA, they say it will increase our profits... Screw that..., we would rather have smaller profits and have more Americans working!!!

Hacker Custom Exhaust products are 100 percent USA built, this includes our finishes, (chrome & ceramics) in fact even our Machinery is USA built.

We have been accused of being a small company!!!

Hacker Custom Exhaust is a family owned business, our economy in the USA is built on small businesses, There is nothing wrong with that. In fact being a small business allows us to build exhaust with better performance than the big companies, plus we offer more custom options!. Being the biggest has never been our goal, our goal has been to provide the highest quality, best performing exhaust you can get!!

COPYCATS:

Hacker Custom Exhaust has been on the leading edge of design and technology for years; Our designer came up with the formula for proper stepping of exhaust over 25 years ago, and our Stepped exhaust systems are the best performing exhaust you can get. In the last 5 years most other exhaust companies have come out with stepped exhaust in some form or the other... big difference here...ours perform. Case in point: Our Stepped Tru-Duels for H-Ds outperform Bub Rhineharts by over 12.8 horsepower, this is a HUGE difference!

Hacker Custom Exhaust was also the first company to come out with Slip-ons for the Indian PP-100 Chiefs, Designer heatshields, Graphics on ceramics, Standard non-stepped headers and then Stepped headers for Victory, real Tru-Duels for the Yamaha RoadStars, Real Tru-Duels for Victory's. In all cases some other company or companies, went to our website and saw what we had out and copied it. Now some hand rail bender in Oregon claims our Victory Tru-Duel design as his own and now we have a Victory dealer in Texas claiming OUR Tru-Duel design has their own.... Polaris West. Polaris West aka Luebecks speed and Custom so called design Tru-Duels were built by me, off of of our B prototype that I designed in Jan of 07!!!, so name them what they truly are, HACKER CUSTOM EXHAUST Tru-Duels.. COME ON, we posted pictures all over the Victory forums and our website long before you even had yours. Who's gonna next claim the Vic Tru-Duels as theirs, Mr Magoo?

Another company states; "Always innovate never imitate". Maybe they should change that to; Always imitate, never innovate! This is just another near direct copy of our Rippers, but this so called USA based company had them built outside the USA to exploit labor cost, BUT....this company charges more than our USA made Rippers!!! WHY TO GO CORY!!!

We know that everything gets copied sooner or later, but have some balls and don't claim something as your design when in fact it aint!

THE TRUTH ABOUT DYNO'S:

First and foremost "I don;t ride a dyno, I ride a motorcyle"!

Most riders run their engines on a normal day between 2000rpms and maybe will hit 4500rpms. I spend a lot time on the road talking to riders, I get asked this all the time: "I spent a lot of $$$$ money on performance items for my bike and it doesn't feel any faster, how come?". I ask them to show me the dyno runs between stock and the performance mods they have done, then I ask them how they ride the bike. In almost all cases, the rider rides his bike at no more than 4500rpms, and there is a BIG HOLE in the mid range caused by the BIG name exhaust system they bought and their bikes power does not come on until they the engine is spinning at 4000rpms +, and in some cases they have less HP and torque in the mid range than their stock setup had. This is needless money spent!!!

When you are riding at normal HWY speeds or you need to accelerate, you need lots of MID range power and that is where Hacker Custom Exhaust puts the power. Most of our systems come with the Horsepower tuned inserts and power comes on REAL hard starting at 2600 Rpms and runs to past redline (Check out the dyno comparison on our Vic page, Hammer/Jackpot header), notice the 112 ftlbs of torque and how steep the torque curve is, now notice the lack of midrange on the V&H pipe. Its our hard hitting torque curve with BIG numbers that provides plenty of power for passing or accelerating, or just plain fun riding, and isn't that what riding is about... MORE TO SOON COME!