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| Author: | yourguitarhero [ 15 Dec 2010 08:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Header wrap? |
Anyone put heat wrap on their headers? Any problems with the bike's running etc? I was thinking about it - stop burning my bike cover and my headers look a bit old - kind of like they've been outside for 3 years. Guessing you need to take them off to do it right? |
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| Author: | pash [ 15 Dec 2010 08:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
I just took some off my S1W, it looked like The Mummy Returns... |
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| Author: | Ash [ 15 Dec 2010 09:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
Itchy dirty job that if you don't do it really well looks shite, but looks ok if you take your time and get the decent stuff, adds little to no performance advantage |
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| Author: | breeze [ 15 Dec 2010 14:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
Dont do it. I had it on my Harley and the rear header pipe split 6 inches out from the head. I read on the Triumph forum about a guy in a bke shop in the states who's welding header pipes every week because of this. He says that the pipes are so thin walled and the heat retention causes them to split. Saying that it took 3 years for it to happen. 
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| Author: | Motorrad [ 15 Dec 2010 14:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
When you say they look "old," might they not just polish up? Or are they rusted - in which case, wrapping them will only hasten the mummy's decay... |
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| Author: | pash [ 15 Dec 2010 17:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
My Guitar Hero's pipes are stainless, the last Buell with non-stainless was the M2 Razorback (I think). |
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| Author: | yourguitarhero [ 16 Dec 2010 10:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
Reading about it on Badweb they suggest that the Buell pipes are a special kind of stainless that can rust. However someone emailed Erik Buell at EBR about it and he said... shit can't remember or find the thread, but that it wasn't rust, it just looked like it? Clear as mud, sorry! TBH it sounds more hassle than it's worth and I'll just get the wife to sew some heat proof foil stuff onto my cover. |
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| Author: | chris(madrid) [ 16 Dec 2010 12:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
yourguitarhero wrote: Reading about it on Badweb they suggest that the Buell pipes are a special kind of stainless that can rust. However someone emailed Erik Buell at EBR about it and he said... shit can't remember or find the thread, but that it wasn't rust, it just looked like it? Get 'em blasted clean and ceramic'd
Clear as mud, sorry! TBH it sounds more hassle than it's worth and I'll just get the wife to sew some heat proof foil stuff onto my cover. |
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| Author: | Adam [ 10 Mar 2012 19:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
yourguitarhero wrote: Reading about it on Badweb they suggest that the Buell pipes are a special kind of stainless that can rust. However someone emailed Erik Buell at EBR about it and he said... shit can't remember or find the thread, but that it wasn't rust, it just looked like it? Clear as mud, sorry! TBH it sounds more hassle than it's worth and I'll just get the wife to sew some heat proof foil stuff onto my cover. Took some wrap off 03's pipes at my gaff. The steel underneath was really rotten. That having been said, I've got it on my VTR trackbike - but only to hide crash damage 
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| Author: | albert666 [ 10 Mar 2012 21:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
yourguitarhero wrote: a special kind of stainless that can rust. . yeah its called shit stainless get em ceramic coated if anything |
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| Author: | Maz [ 10 Mar 2012 21:42 ] |
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Nah, just get them professionally polished and they'll go a luverly gold colour and stay that way 
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| Author: | wurzel1 [ 10 Mar 2012 23:57 ] |
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Its called stainLESS for a reason ........ Otherwise it would be called stainNOT 
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| Author: | robelst [ 11 Mar 2012 12:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
I am quite impressed with the pipe-work on my high mileage winter-used '01 Cyclone; it has a fairly consistent bronze shine without rust or stains and would surely polish up nicely if I could be bothered. The quality is miles ahead of the cheap rubbish on the last 2 BMW boxers I owned: those turned blue, then black before starting to rust and showing pitting only months (!) after purchase. I never considered wrapping the headers. It might make me go faster, but that'd be just to prevent the embarassment of any by-passer noticing the awful ratty looks
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| Author: | sportster_mann [ 12 Mar 2012 11:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
I've got the headers wrapped on my 1125R - but only to stop the fairing panels from melting. Once I've found a second hand pair of headers I'll get them ceramic coated. |
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| Author: | Pingu [ 12 Mar 2012 11:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Header wrap? |
wurzel1 wrote: Its called stainLESS for a reason ........ Otherwise it would be called stainNOT Depends on the grade,which depends on the application. The more corrosion resistant stainless's are a good bit harder to work with unless you know what you're doing,and,naturally,are more expensive than the less resistant grades. IE price up some A2 bolts and some A4,quite a difference. |
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