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Title: gold exhaust Post by suzyssuzi on 08/02/07 at 06:26:53 my exhaust is getting a gold color right where header pipe goes into muffler? all is stock carb and exhaust , i have heard of blueing up on header pipe but gold. any help, thanks |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by skatnbnc on 08/02/07 at 06:29:26 Don't worry about it. ;) Its the same result as blue-to-gold only faster. Speaking of which, do you generally ride fairly fast? That may be part of the reason it went straight to gold. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by toddlamp8 on 08/02/07 at 08:07:18 I thought it went from chrome -> gold -> blue |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by skatnbnc on 08/02/07 at 09:19:29 Usually (but there are always exceptions), it goes CHROME > BLUE > GOLD. Still nothing to worry about. If you don't like the color, check out the threads on painting or ceramic coating the pipe. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by toddlamp8 on 08/02/07 at 15:20:55 It's not that I don't like the color, I use it as a way to tell how the engine is running. Is it just the material the header is made out of or is the engine running hot? |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by forrest on 08/02/07 at 15:42:27 I was talking to the regional manager for Suzuki and he looked at mine (doing the dame) and since I spend a lot of time in stop in go it is normal. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by toddlamp8 on 08/02/07 at 16:12:01 The way I saw it, my exhaust should be gold then blue. Kinda like how a marshmellow gets a nice golden brown then it gets darker until it's black. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by Strafford_Guy on 08/02/07 at 16:17:22 Agree with toddlamp8. I was concerned with the colors myself and asked the question before. My header pipe around the top has turned blue with a real nice golden color below that. Matches the bike great! Normal discoloration. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by PerrydaSavage on 08/02/07 at 17:29:18 My upper header too has developed a golden hue ... and most of my Riding is around town, stop n' go stuff. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by tuxedo on 08/02/07 at 23:37:03 http://w2.bikepics.com/pics/2007%5C07%5C01%5Cbikepics-949524-800.jpg blue is good. makes you look harder than you are. keep riding that gold pipe till it looks like you're a real biker. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by serowbot on 08/03/07 at 00:27:19 Yeah! Wear your colored pipe as a badge of honor. It's really only because the double walls of the savage pipe are not that far apart, so the engine heat transfers to the outer pipe and colors it. If you live in hot climates or ride in widely varied temps or elevations, it will be more extreme and happen faster. BMW and Moto Guzzi riders pride themselves on the blue of their pipes! Bikes that don't blue have double walls that are much more separated, if you could see the inner pipe of these bikes they would be blued. You really have to baby a savage to not get discoloring on the pipe. Enjoy it, bikers will respect you for it. Pipes will go golden, then blue, dark,dark purple to almost mirror black. You can watch it happen in seconds with a blowtorch on chrome. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by Kropatchek on 08/03/07 at 08:59:35 Gold = on the lean side Blue = lean Adjusted by the thickness of the white spacer. File the WS if the pipe gets gold , file a bit more if the pipe gets blue. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by Starlifter on 08/03/07 at 14:42:36 Mine is gold all the way down to the end of the heat shield. All highway miles at speed. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by toddlamp8 on 08/03/07 at 14:51:32 Kropatchek wrote:
I thought that filing down the white spacer would drop the needle making the bike run leaner. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by tbear on 08/03/07 at 15:14:50 My understanding is less spacer = richer. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by serowbot on 08/03/07 at 15:17:09 Nope, because of where the spacer is, shaving it actually raises the needle, making the bike richer. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by TVR on 08/03/07 at 15:47:07 Mine was fairly blue, then after tinkering, began to get gold. Have no clue what that means.... |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by BigWes on 08/04/07 at 16:27:21 yeah dude, pipes change color. It will happen with all bikes, unless you want a ceramic pipe (personaly i dont think they look good) just let it be, or spend a few hundred bucks every few months on new pipes i guess. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by Savage_Rob on 08/04/07 at 17:48:50 I had mine ceramic coated black and I love it. I'd gotten it into a really ugly mottled dark blue by putting header wrap on it for a month. That held the heat in and blued it very badly. I like the ceramic though. The pipe doesn't radiate heat near as much as before. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by BigWes on 08/12/07 at 21:30:44 yes, before it turns blue, it goes gold first. not too much to do about it. just shows youv actualy ridden her, like a badge of honor |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by Soon on 08/13/07 at 19:17:45 Mine is starting to turn gold too. lots of back roads and stop and go, 30% high way. |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by T-Mack1 on 08/14/07 at 03:19:55 There actually is what may be considered two golds, or maybe you want to call the second gold a brown. Somewhere I remember seeing an temp chart with different shades and what temp will cause it. It could be from my days playing with old Jeeps. The last color below should cause you some alarm as I vaguely remember the metal has to get red hot to cool down to "gray". Light Gold > Blue > dark Gold (brown) > Gray |
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Title: Re: gold exhaust Post by Savage_Rob on 08/14/07 at 05:07:15 T-Mack1 wrote:
Yeah maybe something like: Honey -> Blue -> Bronze -> Pewter I really loved the honey color I had. Then I had to go and experiment with header wrap and it turned ugly pretty quickly. |
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