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    Exhaust wrap

    Can anyone tell me where I can buy fibreglass exhaust wrap?

    Any idea of cost?

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    Are you are after wrap for the core of a muffler - ie to repack your muffler?

    If so any bike shop, Trademe or muffler shop will fix you up.

    If you are after the external wrap to physically wrap around headers to reduce the temperature or purely for a visual impact, I have seen it at Repco and Super Cheap - it is fairly expensive and available in different lengths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DEATH_INC. View Post
    If it is that wrap u want hit the buy-now - that is half the price of Repcos.

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    Proper bike stuff

    I got some authentic bike exhaust wrap not long ago from East Coast Motorcycles in Warkworth. Darcy was cheap and very good to deal with. He has online contact. Looks awesome.
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    External wrap is what I'm after. I saw that stuff on trademe but I was looking for the stuff that is more like exposed fibreglass rather than cloth. I'll get hold of ECM. Thanks.

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    if you are wrapping pipes get trhe 1" width as its easier to wrap

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    Just so you know...

    If your exhaust are mild steel, the external wrap, over time, does something interesting.

    Mild steel is a mix of iron and carbon (and some other stuff...)
    Because more heat is kept in the pipes the temperture inside is sufficient to begin to burn the carbon out leaving only iron behind.
    The grain structure left behind isn't as strong and is sort of flakey (like weetbix). Eventually, with vibration etc the pipes will crack. It can be sortof rewelded but really, by then all the guts is gone out and you need new pipes.

    Depending on how often you ride and how hard will effect the amount of time but eventually...

    Anyway - forewared is forarmed. Carry on

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    Plus...
    If you ride in wet weather, the exhaust wrap can accelerate rusting from the outside in. It's OK when it's really hot, the problem is in that period when the wrap's wet and the pipes aren't up to full heat.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    + 1.

    will rust out, been there played that game.
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    Plus, if you have standard pipes, they are probably double skinned anyway, which would possibly negate the heat retention effect of wrapping.

    (So what is the benefit of wrapping pipes anyway? I can see the benefit of keeping the heat energy in the header pipes up to the turbine - if the engine is turbo'd, but on a n-a engine?)
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
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    I got my headers powder coated in case I did decide to put exhaust wrap on them for that reason alone of rust

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    The reason I wanted wrap was because the bike I'm 'restoring' has an exhaust pipe that is the pinnacle of the farm welder's art.The header pipe from cylinder head to footpegs is made up of piece about 2inches long all welded together.

    I thought wrapping it might make it look better. Originally I wasn't going to use it but then an alternative pipe would not be suitable. Then (since the opriginal post) I found that the top piece is rotten as well, so the whole issue becomes academic. The rust was neatly disguised under a thick layer of crusty exhaust sealer.

    Good tip about the rusting though guys, I think that would have been enough to put me off using it in this instance. Back to the drawing board...

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