Gyrobob
Serious Thumper
Offline
Posers ain't motorcyclists
Posts: 2571
Newnan, GA
Gender:
|
The only long-lasting solution for the exhaust header is to have it commercially coated. (something like Jet-Hot High-performace coatings) This will cost somewhere between $200 and $500.
If you want to try it yourself, you'll have to sandblast the chrome on the header pipe, do the whole pipe. -- It needs to be a satin/matte finish for the paint to hold on to. -- It must be absolutely free of any matter at all,... no dust, no fingerprints, no discoloration, no NUTTIN!!!! If you do have it sandblasted, treat it like you must keep it sterile. Don't touch it with anything other than clean rags. Only touch it on the inside of the pipe.
After it is painted, find some way to stick it in the oven and bake it to a few hundred degrees for an hour or so. If you can't do that, stick a heat gun (a hand-held hair dryer on steroids) in one end and let it run for an hour, then the other end for an hour.
I fly gyrocopters. On climbout, the exhaust headers on those 2-stroke aircraft motors get orange hot for a few minutes. The only rattle-can paint that ever held up to that abuse was Dupli-color Hi-Heat. Even that stuff, though, would require a redo every few months.
|