Hi Capt Tedd and welcome.
I just wrapped my header this afternoon. It was easy. This was my procedure:
1. Remove header from bike.
2. Clean pipe well.
3. Clamp pipe in vise.
4. I dropped the roll of wrap into a bucket of water an removed it immediately. It was plenty wet.
5. I started wrapping from the muffler side. Keeping the header in a vise helped me get it nice and tight.
6. I folded under the cut end before using steel zip ties to secure the end. Folding it under gave me a cleaner looking edge.
7. Reinstall the wrapped header and run the bike till the wrap is dry.
8. Removed the header and sprayed it down with a generous amount of high temp silicon paint to seal the wrap. It also improved the appearance drastically.
9. Reinstalled and ran it for about 15 minutes to cure the paint. As per directions on the can.
Wear gloves. There is fiberglass in most header wrap. (humm... I got my present and past tenses all mixed up in that list. Oh well you get the idea
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It did not smell or smoke nearly as bad as I thought it was going to. I think it was Rocco that said it smelled like burnt poptarts.
It does.