Flipping the muffler

[bpdchief]

As there is nothing wrong with the original muffler (except I'm afraid it will cook any saddlebag I find), does anyone see a problem with:
1. cutting the muffler off,
2. reworking the angle of the pipe and
3. cutting the mounting tang off the muffler to flip up instead of down the make the muffler run more parallel to the ground???

Don't want louder... just like the old school look of the flat muffler and don't want to melt or burn saddlebag.