That's bad news...
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After a 1000 mile trip to Dallas this weekend, I noticed a slight gurgle sound at idle, a quick check revealed a stress crack in my new Remus header. The offending crack is at the weld for the hanger tab, it looks like the weld melted the pipe a little thin, and under load it burst. I will post pictures tonight (Film at Eleven). I don't know if I should contact Remus USA or go thru Adrenalin. By the time I post pics of the crack I'm sure I'll have a course of action.
Love the Pipe, not a condemnation, anything made can break, and any problem can be solved. You guys should check your underside header mount tab for cracks. At idle you can feel the hot gas pulsate quite easily.
I haven't wanted to mention it before, primarily because I hoped it was confined to only BMW models, but...
Back when I was riding a BMW R1150R and hung out on a couple of Beemer-centric boards there was an ongoing problem with Remus pipes cracking on Oilhead twins, particularly on the GS's. What was worse was the carbon-canned ones had those CF muffler housings coming apart, too. One guy with a GS's had two titanium cans split and separate all the way around and finally switched to a stainless can. Any number of R1150R and R1150GS owners had the header pipes crack...
Now I must add that Remus appeared to be very good about replacing the broken parts with new pieces, but there was always some sort of fairly substantial wait involved. That got a number of owners pretty upset. Several just jumped ship and bought different brand exhaust systems.
Please understand, I am not trying to assert that Remus systems have, or will have, any problems. Just reporting what I read and saw. I had a Staintune cat-eliminator and a Neptune can on my R1150R and never had a problem one. I have never owned a Remus system so I can't speck from personal experience... And I must add I know several BMW riders that mounted Remus systems on their Hexheads and none have had any problems.
That's why I thought the issues might be confined to only BMW Oilhead models.
Hate to hear about a problem on an XR system...
Hope they take care of it for you.
Dallara
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