exhaust wrap

[410strokerss]

Hey guys! Thinking of wrapping up my pipes to help bring down heat and maybe help the ignition module in the nose cone stay a lil cooler.....and was wondering if anyone has had anyluck using the dei wrap UNDER the heat shields to keep that chrome look....I have Vance and hines long shots by the way. Anyone got any tips or experience with this stuff to help me out before i spend the 60+ bucks and find out i cant use it with the shields. Thanks in advance as always!

 

[410strokerss]

oh yeah just to clarify...i am not wrapping the whole pipe ..just the the portion the heat shields would cover.

 

[RCAdd1ct]

I wrapped under my heat shields in a roadstar.

Issue is that the heat shield needs air space to work.

Second if there is a clamp where you are going to wrap be prepared to hate it.

Also the paint stinks when it burns in. It will be a smoke screen sitting at a light.

 

[stlmikie]

Lowbrowcustoms.com has a how to on their site.

 

[410strokerss]

thank you for the valuable info guys ...i think i will sleep on it before i decide what i wanna do ... I love the idea of reducing the radiant heat and possibly improving reliability but then again i dont know about the look on my bike with it...

 

[stlmikie]

Aspen did it behind the heat shield and it is hard to see and his cover didn't melt any farther.

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

I did it last year to my K-9 -- I choose not to wrap quite as my overlapp as if it were tape alone and have cut the heat down, (it smoked when first installed) and the tape is non-visible so all you see is the chrome unless you look from the back ir very closely at the head end.

It did cut the heat for me and I'm liking that.

 

[Relic]

I wrapped a section on my K-9 pipes to protect the paint on the battery covers & a section on my wife's chopper to protect the brake master cylinder.

K-9 has V&H BR pipes & wife's chopper has Mean Mothers. The reason for protecting the master cylinder on the chopper was because I had re-tracted controls on it.

Both are behind the heat seilds and basically un-noticable. It did smoke a little when first burning in but it went away quick.

I just used grey header wrap and enough for both bikes only cost about $40. It did the job.

 

[PROFLYER]

I wrapped my pipes. They aren't any cooler. They look cool and won't singe as badly as bare metal but they'll still melt your side covers etc. I'd say its 98% aesthetic.

Get the 2", soak it in a bucket of water all unraveled and overlap about a 1/4". Then put a heat gun in the head side of the pipe on full blast until it quits steaming. Repeat the heat gun on the other pipe and you're good to go. Hang them and paint them with 1200* black header paint if you want them nice and black. Oh use hose clamps to secure each end of the wrap and just paint them too.

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[410strokerss]

thanks guys! the heat gun tactic sounds like the way to go without trying to shove the things in an oven or risk trapping in water under the silicone coating.. thanks proflyer....think i will check into jethot coating the headpipes and if that gets too costly just wrap and throw the shields on there to look all classy and sheot!..lol

 

[RCAdd1ct]

I used safety wire onthe start point to hold it in place.

Also to hold what I had to take a break.

The stainless clamps they sell work well but for under heat shields the safety wire might be thinner.