Rocket X needs to be louder

[Mittzy]

Not sure what parts you be speaking of, but you should mount up the K&Ns and CES headers first.
I did the K&Ns and TORs with a canned tune for a year and twas a good, very noticible improvement.
The addition of the CES AND a professional dyno tune with Tune ECU from Nels at least doubled that first improvement!
Check out that new Sidewinder! A good friend of mine (and wife) just went from their Harley trike to one and they LOVE it!
I am thinking of one as I prefer the wife to be in/on the same vehicle with me when we travel together and NOT on a motor of her own.
Of course we be old and I just can't see her operating a trike (non car) on her own.

You old romantic you

 

[Steel]

Yes it is. and the original X over pipe has the empty chamber in it.

Pic of my X over pipe when I took it out of my Roadster.

That's what mine had too. I thought the older models had a bigger box. I didn't know Triumph offered a better crossover. I figured it would have to be aftermarket.

 

[idk]

If you want to make shiny pipes matt black, scuff them up with some 0000 steel wool, then paint them with hi-temp barbecue paint. You can paint them with a brush as the paint will flatten out nicely.

 

[alpental]

A9608144 Looks like they are standard silencers in black. Sounds like you need to enquire for the TORS (Triumph Off Road Silencers) they do not have the catalytic converter in them. You can get a roadster cross over pipe that just eliminates the empty box between the silencers.

The twin black silencer kit (A9608144) for the Rocket X is the black version of chromed pipes with part number A9608077. Both are TORS, so neither have a cat.

A9608144

A9608077

 

[dougl]

Yes it is. and the original X over pipe has the empty chamber in it.

Pic of my X over pipe when I took it out of my Roadster.

Hard to see why Triumph designed the bike with that piece of crap empty box. Also not sure it would make a difference performance-wise unless the box has baffles in it. I don't see a clean crossover on their accessories list. Do they offer it?

 

[Mittzy]

Hard to see why Triumph designed the bike with that piece of crap empty box. Also not sure it would make a difference performance-wise unless the box has baffles in it. I don't see a clean crossover on their accessories list. Do they offer it?

I never said Triumph made a "clean crossover" I was just pointing out what was fitted from factory

 

[CanberraR3]

Think you've answered your own question @dougl .

Stock cross-over a "piece of crap" is it? What engineering evidence to you have for that, or do you just not like the look of it? You'd be mistaken to think that Triumph didn't intend the thing to work on a stock set up. Removing the old cat box on the 3 pipe bikes was a completely different story but on the Roadster, changing that cross over will net very little if any benefit on its own.

 

[dougl]

Think you've answered your own question @dougl .

Stock cross-over a "piece of crap" is it? What engineering evidence to you have for that, or do you just not like the look of it? You'd be mistaken to think that Triumph didn't intend the thing to work on a stock set up. Removing the old cat box on the 3 pipe bikes was a completely different story but on the Roadster, changing that cross over will net very little if any benefit on its own.

You've answered my question well enough. True, I just think it looks like a piece of crap. I trust you're not related to it, so no personal insult meant there. I don't see the point of the box and don't really know what's inside it or how it affects the flow. Does anyone? At least a couple of people here were keen to get rid of it.

I don't know what Triumph intended, only that for the standard R3's, they made performance mufflers and a "so-called" performance crossover. I think Triumph's intentions are hard to understand sometimes. They come out with a new model, the Roadster, but restrict the power. Then two years later, they decide to re-instate that power.

 

[CanberraR3]

As I said, removing the cat box on the older models was very worthwhile because it also removed the cat. On the Roadster the cats are in each muffler, not the cross over. Triumph had the accessory cross over to go with the 3 pipe TORS so that people using the bike on a race track () could gain maximum power from the TORS. Of course no one would ever run that system on public roads.

With the Roadster they achieved the same outcome by making TORS without cats in them so no need for an accessory cross over. You can spend big bucks on a Staintune cross over if you want but I'd put that in the category of "a fool and his money are soon parted". Just because it costs a lot doesn't mean it works.

The restriction was not introduced with the Roadster; it had always been there since 2004/5.

 

[dougl]

The restriction was not introduced with the Roadster; it had always been there since 2004/5.

Quite true. They did a big marketing blitz about how the 2012 Roadsters were "unrestricted" compared to before that. It was surprising to realize when the old and new tunes became available [to me] that the only thing they changed were the secondaries.