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and if so, which tools are needed?  Apologies for such the ignorant question but as I've never worked on cars/bikes before I have no clue what's needed.  The first "mechanical" thing I've done thusfar on my bike is installing Pazzo levers so that should give some indication of how new I am to this.  As always, helpful responses greatly appreciated.

year and model?

06 s2r dark

doesnt matter what bike you have. More than 90% of the bike is put together with hand tools. So yes you can take them of with a a hex set and some sockets.

Great.  Picking up a set later tonight.  Is there anything I should look out for when trying to remove the mufflers from the udders or is it pretty straight forward?  (well considering my inexperience in mechanics)

Make sure you get metric  ;)

Just loosen everything that looks like an allen connector from the udder back. If memory serves, there are 5 (I have the same bike). There are 2 pipe clamps at the udder, 1 on each pipe. There are 2 more pipe clamps at the connection of the mufflers. There is 1 more attaching the muffler bracket to the frame. You COULD remove the mufflers from the bracket, but it's not necessary.

As for reassembly (if you so choose), just remember to fit all the pieces back together loose before you tighten all the bolts for the final time. There may be some wiggling required to get the pipes to seat to the udder and mufflers correctly.

As a side question, has anyone ever just taken off the mufflers but left the pipes leading to the udder on??  So there would be two pipes sticking out near the rear pegs, rather than having two openings on the udder.  I don't think I've seen anything like that on these forums.

people have done it, but it looks ugly as make the beast with two backs imho.

Careful with overtightening the clamps , the bolts will jam and you'll then have to cut them off (personal experience here), use some antiseize on the bolts before you reinstall too.
+ 1 on the metric hex keys too, the imperial ones will fit but will strip out the heads, also spend a little more and get good quality hex keys, crap ones will also damage your bolts, and possibly your fingers too when they snap.

which means they don't fit  ;)

always use the right tools for the job  [thumbsup]

If you want cheap but well built American Metric tools, i like craftsman or Husky. (atleast i hope craftsmans are made in the US, im not sure) Husky has a full hex set up to 11mm. Good for your oil drain plugs and rearset bolts, incase they get loose.

All, thanks for all the responses!  I'm a pretty impatient person so after work I headed to Home Depot and picked me up a nice Husky tool set.  Well, I never realized how easy it would be to take the mufflers off but here she is:

(http://i376.photobucket.com/albums/oo210/corpthug/IMG_1750.jpg)

But after riding around the block with this setup, I realized this is way too LOUD.  Def a popo attraction.  So I put on the connector pipes so even if it looks uglier, here she is:

(http://i376.photobucket.com/albums/oo210/corpthug/IMG_1747.jpg)

After riding around with this setup for the wknd I'm prob gonna decide for sure which after market exhaust I want to put on it.  As of now I'm leaning towards the Quat-D Ex-Box.  The minimalist rear end is looking pretty good to me right now.

Again, thanks for the tips!

i recommend the x-box. ran with just the udder for a long time, but it was too loud.
the x-box is the perfect medium between stock and too loud

Deja vu... went through the same process.
1) Remove s pipes and mufflers = Too loud
2) Reinstall s pipes = Still kinda loud... not refined enough
3) Reinstall mufflers = Wait for ExBox money

 :(

thats why they invented cored stock mufflers or earplugs [thumbsup]

im in the same boat guys. But after hearing an exbox for 2-3 months, meh. Looks SICK, sounds....eh. This why i just ordered a bunch of pipes from JC Whitney...TO MAKE MY OWN!!!  :o  [evil]

seriously though, you can core your stock mufflers and it will sound much better. I am doing mine rightnow, except, i dont have a bike to hear how my core sounds. :(

I would get Boom-tubes over the Exbox system any day.  I don't know if they are available yet though.


 

Another observation after running the bike without mufflers for a few dozen miles:  does taking the mufflers off in some way influence the engine temp?  I can't say for certain but I'm fairly confident the engine's been running a lot hotter now, seems like it goes up to the 250 range within 10 minutes or riding in the city and will go up to higher 200s faster than it would before.  Is this something that makes sense or am I making it up?

Thug,

If you're not in a rush I was thinking about getting the Boom tubes or making my own from my old pipes.  Right now I'm running the Ex-box and if I like what I hear I'll be selling the Ex-box.  It's definately better than the stock IMO.  Just interested in seeing/hearing the difference between the 2 myself.