SuzukiSavage.com - Heat wrap

weracerc Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 594 Greensboro, NC Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #30 - 03/11/11 at 13:50:44 my bike is like one of my children or pets - they all live in a climate controlled invironment - because I love them all.
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Re: Heat wrap
Reply #31 - 03/15/11 at 10:39:23

Just finished doing mine. I like how it looks. My header looked bad so I went and wrap the darn thing till I open the exhaust port and get the Raask.

Like my working area??? Is a parking deck with no lights. The exhaust is not currently on the bike since I'm waiting for a Barnett clutch but it looks nice. Signal lights are going to be taken away. I only ride in the city and no highway so I'm praying that the cops won't give me any trouble until I get the light that are mounted on the grips.

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groupus Senior Member Offline Maintenance is as much art as it is science. Posts: 296 PA Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #32 - 03/16/11 at 18:43:16 I know that I wrapped the header and put whitewalls on if for performance. I also put a loud exhaust on it for "safety". Do what makes you happy. Ps. jandaso, that looks really nice. you'll appreciate not burning your arms/legs so much and save some money on shoelaces.
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Re: Heat wrap
Reply #33 - 04/27/11 at 09:51:18

I disagree that exhaust header wrap serves no purpose other than to 'pose'. I'm doing a Ryca conversion and I'm wrapping my header.

To what purposes?

The stock heat shield will be removed. Wrap will protect my leg from getting burned.
My 15 year-old header is rusted and scratched. Where the heat shield mounted are deep corrosion patterns. My attempts to clean-up the pipe have not worked.
I've read reports of high-temperature paint not staying put. For the same cost as high-temp primer and paint I can buy wrap.
There may be some performance gain from having exhaust gas exit at higher temperature.

Even if I had no reasons apart from liking the look, I would do it. Just who wrote the rule book on what a cafe racer (or, for that matter, any other style of bike) should be?

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Re: Heat wrap
Reply #34 - 04/27/11 at 11:44:06

BuckRYCA wrote on 04/27/11 at 09:51:18:

Even if I had no reasons apart from liking the look, I would do it. Just who wrote the rule book on what a cafe racer (or, for that matter, any other style of bike) should be?

I hate to be a smartass, but wikipedia wrote the book Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_racer#Typical_configuration

That being said. It is your bike. Do what you want with it. Who am I to say what looks good to you or what you should do with your own property?

It is far more important to have a bike that gets ridden than to have a bike that "looks" a certain way. I'm looking at you, harley riders with 20 year old "pristine" bikes with only a few thousand miles Angry

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CalisOsin Senior Member Offline Rather die, than live down on my knees. Posts: 297 Orange County, Ca Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #35 - 04/27/11 at 14:25:44 [quote author=6764757771647D6675607167140 link=1299687162/30#34 date=1303929846]BuckRYCA wrote on 04/27/11 at 09:51:18: I'm looking at you, harley riders with 20 year old "pristine" bikes with only a few thousand miles $50,000 and 5,000 miles doesn't make you a biker...
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topgunz1 YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 34 Baton Rouge, LA Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #36 - 04/27/11 at 22:12:41 Ryca kit reuses your stock header? Guess I gotta wrap mine too cause it looks ROUGH.
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Re: Heat wrap
Reply #37 - 04/30/11 at 11:27:23

Yes, the Ryca kit supplies a new muffler (of sorts), a kick-out connector pipe, and a muffler clamp. The header pipe is re-used and a cut off is required to accept the connector. I believe the muffler is an EMGO reverse cone megaphone. The 'Motorcyclist Magazine' reviewer called it almost obnoxiously loud. I've read that the muffler packing is minimal in this unit, so it may be possible to mellow it out with something like Moose Racing exhaust packing.

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dekuji63 YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 20 Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #38 - 05/01/11 at 13:46:28 I wonder if I can just wrap my legs with this stuff. That cylinder puts out some heat when it gets to be 80º or so out here!
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #39 - 05/01/11 at 14:08:18 ride faster, that's what I do.
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Boofer Serious Thumper Offline Nearly too old. Posts: 1760 N Ms Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #40 - 05/01/11 at 17:03:54 I hate when all my friends get testy on here and go on and on, so I will end this discussion with the plain, unvarnished truth: Use Rotella T Dino oil 15w40 and fill it till you can see it in the sightglass with the bike on the stand. The Rotella runs very cool, eleminating heat problems. Don't bother to thank me. It's just what I do.
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splash07 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 911 Charleston, SC Gender:	Re: Heat wrap Reply #41 - 05/02/11 at 12:47:49 Oh lord...here we go
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