Polishing the exhaust system
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Like everything else on the Hound (of the Baskervilles, i.e. big, black dog) my headers are corroded to sh1t. Can they be sprayed with any kind of exhaust paint?
I'm so unlucky that if there is such a thing as re-incarnation I'll come back as me!
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To give you a little bit of tease info as I finally got my hands on my new systemlloydie wrote:Seb the moriwaki pipes lengths areseb421 wrote:i cant remember off top of my head what my old OEM down pipe was like but it wasn't a mess lol
the Yoshi front header was a wider pipe tho
Front 600mm to the splitter
Rear 560mm to the splitter
So 40mm difference
And 42mm OD pipe for both

I don't have the pipe lengths yet but I can tell you that the pipe coming from the head has a I.D. of 42mm with an O.D. of 45mm that tapers up to an O.D. of 50mm just past the crossover on the front pipe and right after the small 34mm crossover pipe on the rear cylinder. Then it goes up again at the cans for an inlet of 52mm.
Only a couple of pics so far as I just started cleaning but I would say this system has maybe 10K miles on it at most.




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Mav617 wrote:Like everything else on the Hound (of the Baskervilles, i.e. big, black dog) my headers are corroded to sh1t. Can they be sprayed with any kind of exhaust paint?
When I got the black sparkly one a spare header pipe came with it. It had been sprayed black but who ever done it hadn't rubbed it down! It was a mess. I've started the cleaning with emery paper to start with, it's a bit of work but they will come back to a shiney condition!

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It's ideal to have the tapers both ends. That should smooth out the pressure differentials.To give you a little bit of tease info as I finally got my hands on my new system

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Looks like soak citys water ride..8541Hawk wrote:To give you a little bit of tease info as I finally got my hands on my new systemlloydie wrote:Seb the moriwaki pipes lengths areseb421 wrote:i cant remember off top of my head what my old OEM down pipe was like but it wasn't a mess lol
the Yoshi front header was a wider pipe tho
Front 600mm to the splitter
Rear 560mm to the splitter
So 40mm difference
And 42mm OD pipe for both![]()
I don't have the pipe lengths yet but I can tell you that the pipe coming from the head has a I.D. of 42mm with an O.D. of 45mm that tapers up to an O.D. of 50mm just past the crossover on the front pipe and right after the small 34mm crossover pipe on the rear cylinder. Then it goes up again at the cans for an inlet of 52mm.
Only a couple of pics so far as I just started cleaning but I would say this system has maybe 10K miles on it at most.![]()

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Elbow grease I guess it has to be loloorwullie43 wrote:Mav617 wrote:Like everything else on the Hound (of the Baskervilles, i.e. big, black dog) my headers are corroded to sh1t. Can they be sprayed with any kind of exhaust paint?
When I got the black sparkly one a spare header pipe came with it. It had been sprayed black but who ever done it hadn't rubbed it down! It was a mess. I've started the cleaning with emery paper to start with, it's a bit of work but they will come back to a shiney condition!
I'm so unlucky that if there is such a thing as re-incarnation I'll come back as me!
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how quick does it brown again once it's mounted back on the bike? Can you even protect it?
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they will brown up fairly quickly if you ride in the wet....flynavyj wrote:how quick does it brown again once it's mounted back on the bike? Can you even protect it?

but once they're done its easy to give them a quick clean every now and then...

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Have a look here:-flynavyj wrote:how quick does it brown again once it's mounted back on the bike? Can you even protect it?
http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7027
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