Fitting the termi exhaust

Well holly cr@p!!, NOT a 5 minute job, even for a seasoned mechanical engineer and racer, the booklet supplied by Ducati/termi is a must, I have refitted the glass, the heat protection supplied in the kit is a .... to fit, used on the bottom rear of the tank and also to protect the ECU, getting the ECU out requires the rear tank mount to totally be removed from the sub frame, this is not explained in the booklet.

The standard fairings WILL touch the link pipe running from the front cylinder to the collector manifold. Even with the rubber bung provided with the kit. I am machining a spacer to fit between the race glass and also wrapping that area of the exhaust.

To those of you who have not had the software/firmware upgrade done get to it, makes a huge difference to the standard engine performance, so I can now give you some feed back on power differences.

Stock on dyno, just run in is 176rwhp, stock headers with cans and map changes improved midrange torque by 8% and ended with 182 rwhp, full system with full map gave a 1% drop in torque but a final figure of 187 rwhp.

I expect this will improve with another 1000 or so KM's in the motor, did this with both bikes, standard ABS and 1199s, no real difference in engine performance between both, the "S" has about 2 more bhp but has more KM's on the engine.

The race system gets REALLY REALLY hot... I am not kidding, you will get burnt if you accidentally touch the little screw that fits the heat shield, be very careful.


So my conclusion for all out there in performance land is this, fit the cans, don't fit the full system unless you are going to race the bike, and then have a good think about it, if you do fit it, get it "coated" first, it will make a huge difference to the radiant heat. Whilst dyno figures can be different depending on the type, the operator and tyres used I am happy with my dyno guy, he also thinks there is more in the motor with the right filters and a PC V or tune boy.

Our AUstralian pro-stock series will not allow a rad upgrade so any more power is going to be hard to find and manage based on heat from the motor.

I have some road parts if anyone has been unfortunate enough to damage their bike and needs bits...

I hope the info above helps if you are looking at exhausts for your paini...

Bowdy #69

Have you removed the AIS? Should help with the heat...

My headers should be here soon, I am concerned about fairing clearance. I'm not so concerned about effort, because each header mounts to 3 studs respectively and are relatively easy to get to versus an inline. This will be my third full exhaust install myself. Good info though, would like to see the spacer you fashioned.

I might be putting some heat shielding on the lower fairing as I have done in the past. Lazy cost cutting measure on Ducati's part.

Thanks for reminding me, ordered the heat shielding just now.

Worth getting some ratchet 10mm spanners for the headers, the subframe needs to be lifted up, seriously consider getting it coated with the "jet hot coating". Makes good hp up the top, if ur not racing the bike and fitting the standard fairing back on have some of the stick on heat protection put on the inside of the RH rear bottom fairing, will happily send you a grommet once I've made them. Removed the AIS, both of my bikes are for racing so I've removed as much as possible for air flow too.

The race system does reduce torque based on the dyno figures, we are riding this weekend and will have some seat of the pants feed back next week.

Better get back to it....

I don't see myself coating it right now. I'm very tolerant to the heat and will try my luck with the shielding. If that doesn't fly, I'd rather just start replacing the fairings with the CF panels.

I checked out the manual, tracking subframe and gas tank removal. A front sprocket may be the solution if the torque decrease is blatant.

Thanks for the info and grommet offer.

Feel your pain and well done in any case.

I studied both sets of installation instructions, for full and slips, before deciding which way to go.

Just couldn't summon the enthusiasm, or courage, to attempt the full system and boy where the slips hard enough.