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Recently bought a Virago 250 for the wife's starter bike. Turned out the engine was ailing and beyond repairable. Bought a nice low milage replacement engine off ebay.
Got a very nice Shadow in the mean time.
I began to look things over to plan on the engine swap that's when I noticed.....
That rear pipe is a decoy. It does nothing but sit there and look nice. It doesn't even touch the rear jug. The mufflers are joined together and aren't really mufflers. There's a 1" tube connected to the rear jug and it makes a couple of bends, terminating into the real muffler, also piped in to the front jug. The whole assembly tucked under and behind the engine. The exhaust system is really a decoration. Non functional.
Got a very nice Shadow in the mean time.
I began to look things over to plan on the engine swap that's when I noticed.....

That rear pipe is a decoy. It does nothing but sit there and look nice. It doesn't even touch the rear jug. The mufflers are joined together and aren't really mufflers. There's a 1" tube connected to the rear jug and it makes a couple of bends, terminating into the real muffler, also piped in to the front jug. The whole assembly tucked under and behind the engine. The exhaust system is really a decoration. Non functional.