ALWAYS!!!, mark the base of the O2 sensors and count the turns it takes to get them out. When you reinstall, twist the wire in the appropriate direction so that the wire(s) will untwist when reinstalled. Do Not Fail to do this. Riding around with that wire twisted will eventually break wires inside the cable of this low voltage, critical sensor by vibration, if not the actual twisting itself. Be delicate with these cables.
Hi Arthur, looks the goods, pretty straight forward, the ecu part / question, will it (Ecuador) need to be re programmed as already asked but not answered? The instructions on the video was good too,
California....or closer to home Spain. Debating to remove or not as it will have to re-installed in 3yrs to pass the emissions test. Iwas just going to buy the end cans but I have heard that i't pretty useless upgrade if you don't remove the cat.. Nice video by the way!
Arthur Macdonald. Thank you for the detailed video. After reading all the comments in this post it would seem to me it would be best to spend the money on a Power Commander and a set of freer flowing exhausts. In your own words you mentioned small gains on the 1200 and some X pipes actually causing a loss of power. Your thoughts?
If part of the objective is to improve the sound then really the cat has got to go. Our decat pipe will not cause any power loss. There are those on the market that will. If the sound standard sound is ok for you then spend your money on a power commander and a custom map.
Hi, because the video was more generic we didn't put up a specific set of figures. We don't have a final set of figures for the T120 yet. From what we know now the gains are not big. We know that some of the decats on the market lose power. We really need to do more dyno testing with more bikes. There are also variations on country specs. Our advice at the moment is to have your bike set up after fitting. And not too expect large power gains regardless of the brand of silencer/decat used. There are some pretty big fibs out there!
I'm guessing you're referring to the one by TriumphCustomParts? :) That has to be the most ridiculous x-pipe I've ever seen! We refer to it as an 'F'-pipe, but it's more of an 'H'-pipe :) We did the independent testing for the original Australian manufacturer of these things, and on the HP engine we got very impressive results that exceeded even our expectations. It's worth noting that you need to remove the snorkel from the airbox too, as this is very restrictive and strangles some of the decat gains, as we found when testing on our dyno.
Hi Arthur, another video about these was very positive but said the rubber stopper for the centre stand fell out because the hole is too small. Is this still a problem?
Hi Arthur! Thank's for your reply. I don't think it's the same. The one showing in your vídeo has the extentions going down on both sides of the front light and is more round at the top.
Could you still get to those Cat mounting bolts if you did it that way? There must be a reason for the left side rail removal. Maybe it's because the T-100 doesn't have a stock center stand and it would be easier for this procedure?
Motorcycle emissions are very very low and the cat does virtually nothing in terms of cleaning them. How do I know? because I've seen them tested. Have you?
Come on look at India and the US and China. All massive polluters. Why should the UK think it will be so clean ,Air pollution does move around the globe, the UK doesn't live under a glass done . And let's face it a motorcycle is a very low level polluter. Now piss off
