Triumph TOR mufflers

[Rocky]

Last spring, just before I left for South America, I was talking to my Triumph dealer about the TOR mufflers for my T100. He offered me a great deal on them and I had planned to look into it more when I returned.
We all know how that plan went!
I wanted a bit more rumble from the bike, but I don't want them to be noisy and annoying on a Sunday morning. I would sooner leave the bike as is.
I know noise is a subjective thing, but are any of you using the TOR's and are they too loud or make you a bad neighbour?

 

[CarlS]

Rocky, TOR's are barely audible. They do make the bike sound like a bike and not like a Singer sewing machine. Lound they are not. Mae Lyne has TOR's and I have Bonneville T-120 repro silencers on mine. On a scale of 1 -10 with 1 being the stock mufflers and 10 being straight pipes, the TOR's are a three. My vintage silencers would be in the four to five range. You could accomplish the same sound by drilling through the baffles of your stock pipes. I did that to my stock pipes while I searched for silencers that produced the level of sound that I wanted.

TOR's will definitely NOT annoy the neighbors. I will look for the thread on the bafflectomy on the old forum.

Oops, I am not sure the bafflectomy will work on your 06. Triumph changed the internal construction of the stock silencers and I think the magic year was 2006. You can ask your mechanic about that.

 

[CarlS]

Here you go, Rocky; I found it and reposted it here.

https://www.triumphtalk.com/index.php?topic=4861.msg28115#msg28115

 

[Rocky]

Thanks for the link, Carl :y115: Much appreciated for that and the personal experience info :y115:

 

[CarlS]

You are very welcome, my friend. Mae Lyne wants vintage pipes on hers! The sound they make is as close to the vintage Bonnie sound as you can get considering the new Bonnie engine has overhead cams and four valves per cylinder.

 

[gumpt1oo]

I did the bafflectomy on my 2005 T100, and the baffles were slightly different to the ones described in the link.
I started with a 1 1/8" hole saw and cut through the rear flange.
This is where the baffles are different. I did not need to hit the baffle to break the welds on the front flange as the baffle moved back and forth straight away.
I removed the fibreglass and found that the front flange was welded to the baffle tube but not to the inside of the silencer. So I pulled the baffle out as far as the front flange would allow, gripped it with vice grips and then used a hammer to break the welds between the baffle and front flange. This then leaves the front flange floating about in the silencer. I then used a large flat blade screwdriver to bend the front flange out of shape enough to fish it out the silencer.
Here is a couple of pics of the baffle removed.

To drill through the 4 baffle plates I ground a point onto a 5/16" steel bar and knocked it through all 4 baffles, I then welded a 7/8" hole saw to the steel bar and drilled through all the baffles. From memory I think I had 120 main jets in after the bafflectomy.

 

[CarlS]

Very good, Gump, and great photos. I know the baffle system had changed and I did not know what year marked the change. I did not even own a digital camera when I did the bafflectomy on mine. Thanks. :y115:

 

[mjj338]

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Last spring, just before I left for South America, I was talking to my Triumph dealer about the TOR mufflers for my T100. He offered me a great deal on them and I had planned to look into it more when I returned.
We all know how that plan went!
I wanted a bit more rumble from the bike, but I don't want them to be noisy and annoying on a Sunday morning. I would sooner leave the bike as is.
I know noise is a subjective thing, but are any of you using the TOR's and are they too loud or make you a bad neighbour?
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Hi Rocky, I'm very happy with my TOR's . They're civilised but give that sound one wants on a (modern) retro bike. :y18:

grtz
Etienne aka Quasithrux

 

[Rocky]

Thanks guys :y18:

 

[DaveM]

Very good thread thanks Gump for the extra info on this

 

[CarlS]

Gump, I copied your information into the thread in the Bonneville/T100 section:

https://www.triumphtalk.com/index.php?topic=4861.0

 

[dearborn]

Been looking for a set of TOR mufflers, (silencers) for my '96 Thunderbird for YEARS!! I worked in a Triumph dealer in '95-'97 and installed a fair number of these, but have never found a set for sale since. I see that Norman Hyde sells some for the T-Bird triple, but they are $$$$$ and don't look quite "right" to me

 

[Mad On Triumphs]

Apparently Triumph don't make them anymore, I have 2 sets of quiet one's in the garage, should last me a while. I have the off road one's on mine, and have done for since I bought the bike.