Hi All, I'm a new guy. I just picked up my 2005 S40 a month ago as my first bike and have been very happy riding it. It has about six inches of its muffler turned blue. I don't mind the look, but, will the blue part rust? My garage has a higher than normal humidity level. How can I prevent rusting from happening?

Thanks a lot!

I think it's the header pipe I'm talking about. I have this bike for only a month and have not gone through the manuals yet. .

I'm really looking forward to learn more about modifications I can make to my baby bike.

Savage_Rob wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06:


I bought a rough looking header pipe from Bikemom with intent of just painting it BBQ black, but now that I went back and looked at the pictures of your ceramic coated one, I need to find a place around here to get it done reasonable. There is a blued Dyna muffler on my chopper that I like the sound of that I may have done too. Then finally everyone will be able to see my fancy flamed chrome muffler clamp cover against the contrasting black!

Original poster: More often than not, bluing just happens to pipes. Sometimes with careful jetting it can be avoided for a long time; but eventually under some atmospheric condition it will get your pipes anyways. Just my experience, so I don't worry about it too much.