| Bike
purchased May 2002 |
The new Triumph Daytona 955i was ordered in Silver bodywork,
rather than the standard Aston Green.
Triumph
Carbon rear Hugger was also fitted. |
| Wolf
Under seat Exhaust July 2002 |
After a looooong wait my Wolf under seat
exhaust turned up (Wolf delivered it 6 weeks late!). Fitting was
relatively painless even though it did take up most of a Saturday
afternoon, mostly due to my pitiful knowledge, sausage fingers and lots
of head scratching. But the finished article is great. It looks superb
IMHO and sounds... well... it now sounds like a real motorcycle!
The exhaust is delivered with the baffles as an optional extra. I fitted
them because the unbaffled sound was a little harsh and actually prefer
the noise level with baffles fitted. Very little difference to tell the
truth but the baffled version sounds a bit deeper - which is my
favourite type of noise.
It sounds *slightly* louder than the OEM Triumph Race can *but*
shouldn't offend Plod when at lower revs. It has a terrific deep burble
and howl sound when it's opened up. When you roll off the throttle it
pops, spits and snarls like a wild animal.
I recorded a short video with full sound if you want to listen to the
exhaust at tick over
here
I've removed the pillion pegs on my bike, but there is no reason why
they cannot be refitted.The Wolf was £900 with the anodised titanium end cans. End cans come in stainless,
titanium and carbon flavours. The system is all well built and looks
like it will stand the test of time.
Fitting was a bit of a pain and certainly took me much
longer than the 3 hours recommended in the instructions.
Basically fitting means:
taking all the fairings off the rear
removing exhaust
disconnect electric (battery, alarm, ecu, fuses, relays, indicators
etc..)
remove plastic water header bottle
remove plastic under tray
drill out the seat lock (which is riveted in) - no problem because it
can always be *screwed* back in if you want to revert to OEM pipe.
then fit all the new stuff:
it Wolf metal battery box
fit battery and ECU into battery box
fit horizontal Wolf heat shield (across top of where pipes will be)
fit Wolf metal water header bottle
fit all electrics back to frame and heat shield
fit pipes and exhaust canisters
fit bodywork back on....
stand back and have a gulp of beer
fire her up and listen to that wonderful new triple sound......
I
found the
Wolf Underseat Fitting Instructions a little ambiguous, they don't clearly explain what all the components are, but
with a little patience and trial and error - it all fits simply enough.
It wasn't a difficult task just time consuming and detailed.
IMPORTANT: Pop down to your local Triumph dealer and
get them to load the 'Triumph Race Tune' into the Bike ECU... Jeeezuz!!!!!
What a difference. Combined with the under seat exhaust the Daytona is
now riding like a completely different bike. Flat spot has vanished..
Power seems to come on early and just increase throughout the entire rev
range. My seat of the pants estimates would say that it feels 20% faster
everywhere.
The exhaust howl just
sounds FANTASTIC.
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| Number
plate |
| MPS number plate fitted - slightly
smaller (but completely legal, Officer - Honest!) and with
triumph logo in background. |
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Headlights upgraded?!? |
| Well the headlights were soooo crap that
I thought they needed an upgrade. I figured it
was because of the huge lens space around the bulb, or something, and
started at thread at t595.net to discuss upgrades. Much to my surprise
it turns out that the headlights are in fact excellent but just setup so
badly, as they come out of the Triumph factory, as to make them next to
useless.
The up/down adjustors (took me about 20 minutes to
find the little buggers) are just either side of the frame connector in
front of the yoke. Two small holes in metalwork allow you to get the
screwdriver in and adjust. putting handlebars on lock allows you to get
screwdriver in quite easily - assuming it's not a long screwdriver. I
ended up raising the headlights a lot, so they now light the road up
*great* but still don't seem to dazzle anyone! When I adjusted mine I
twisted the RIGHT had side L/R adjustor a half turn to the right - so it
brightens up the centre line slightly better *but* without dazzling on
coming vehicles.
I used a very basic means of measurement in that my
bike was about 6 feet away from my garage wall, I turned the lights on
and raised the beam level 2 bricks. if that makes any sense? kept on
screwing until the top level of the light had risen two brick heights
i.e.: something in the order of 6 inches.
Works great for me and has made a world of difference
down the dark country lanes and they are now like world war two
searchlights.
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Indicators replaced with flush mount carbon fibre units? |
 A
few quid spent with Motrax and I replaced the front and rear indicators
with much sleeker carbon look units. The front indicators are flush
mounted and the rears are much smaller than standard, with clear lens
but very bright and visible yellow bulbs. |
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Skidmarx Tinted Double bubble screen |
Probably
one of the simplest and arguably better looking modifications is the
double bubble screen.It's slightly more angular than the standard
screen, reduces wind blast at cruising speeds and looks just... well...
sharper.
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| 17
Tooth front cog (reduced from 18 as standard) |
| By far the best performance mod that can
be done. Gives
more boost in lower gears, greatly improves the low speed handling and
doesnt affect top end either (not until your into serious 140+ speeds
anyway!) Installation was simple - even for a
spanner novice like myself.
If there was one change that Triumph needs to make to
the standard bike this is it! Incredible difference to how the bike
behaves.. feels like it's 20% more powerful in every gear!!! Do it!
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SkyKing Frame Sliders |
| Mushrooms can save the bodywork in the
event of a slide down the road. Seeing the damage that occurred when
Larry (a friend of mine with a Ducati ST2 *spit*) simply dropped his
bike when pulling into a petrol station fitting Skyking Sliders
was a must. Another simple installation although it does need two
people, and the Skyking sliders don't look too ugly either.
I've yet to discover if they actually work.. hopefully I
will never have to.
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MODS that are still on the drawing board |
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SkyKing Steering Damper |
| Definitely on the list. The Daytona does
get a little flighty over bumpy roads when accelerating but at £300+
it's a bit of a wedge to layout. |
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