I recently picked up the first pair of Remus Hexacone slip on silencers in the country (www.performanceparts-ltd.com) to go on the BMW K1600GT and decided it might be fun to time just how long it takes the remove the old and fit the new.
The titanium silencers have a carbon outlet, and are road legal with removable baffles – all in you’re looking at £866. These are considerably more compact and lighter than the stock items, saving 9.48kg a pair.
With my CruzTools Roadtech toolkit to hand, a can of Swarfega Duck oil and Quick Stop brake and clutch and cleaner along with an exhaust spring puller all at the ready, I started the clock. A good whiff of the Duck Oil on all the bolts and joints definitely make life easier when it comes to getting dry tight bolts off. Every bolt undone the silencer comes off relatively easily.
The new Remus silencer has a stub pipe which fits into the front part of the exhaust that’s still attached to the bike, this is clamped in place using the original clamp (don’t do it up just yet). The silencer slips over the stub pipe and the can held in place on the exhaust hanger using the original bolt.
Now with the silencer in place it makes it easier to fit the two exhaust springs, this is done with the aid of the spring puller, this tool definitely makes this task easier, without one it is possible to do this using a length of through the end of the spring and stretch it over the loop, then thread the wire back out. With it now loosely in place, I checked the alignment before tightening everything up.
From start to finish on the first side it took only 20 minutes, this included cleaning all the new parts down with a clean rag and a liberal squirt of Quick Stop to remove any greasy finger prints which tend to stay as marks if not cleaned off before the exhaust gets hot.
Now with one standard exhaust on and one Remus I thought it would be fun to start the bike up to see what the difference was, the note was definitely deeper than the stock BMW silencer, with this taster of what it sounds like I couldn’t wait to get the other one on.
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