I had my FZ6 a whole two days and decided it really needed an exhaust. To me the stock plastic exhaust shroud was too ugly and there was little character to the exhaust note, the performance of the bike is fine. I wasn't looking for more hp. I started looking into different brands and most are pretty loud. I love the sound of the Devil Carbon but I don't think I could live with it. The dudes my local Cycle Gear shop recommended the Akrapovic SP. It has mufflers that meet EOM sound requirements, even comes with a TUV aftermarket certificate stating so. It is also designed to work with stock fuel mixture settings, no over scavaging. The cool thing is that with a few spins of the wrench the DB Killers can be pulled out (a nice throaty note is the result) and the back pressure cone can be removed to increase flow if ever needed. So bottomline it's a quiet, tunable exhaust. The system is Ti and SS. The machining and welding is first rate, and the fit was perfect, no tweaking, bending, mangling required.
The install was easy, I used H8 PVMT's body work removal steps, big help, took about 90 minutes start to finish.
Attached are removal images and the muffler. BTW...the stock muffler weights 12.1 lbs! I didn't weight the Akro but it is much less, 4 to 5 less maybe?
The install was easy, I used H8 PVMT's body work removal steps, big help, took about 90 minutes start to finish.
Attached are removal images and the muffler. BTW...the stock muffler weights 12.1 lbs! I didn't weight the Akro but it is much less, 4 to 5 less maybe?
Last edited: