Honda Hornet 250 - Stainless exhaust or steel?

[speeding_ant]

Hi!

Anyone know if the exhaust system on a Hornet 250 (2005) is stainless or steel? Wanting to know if I should strip it and polish, or strip and paint...

Cheers

[speeding_ant]

Eventually ended up stripping and painting. Looks good! That VHT Exhaust Manifold paint is the business.

[nzmikey]

ahhh well too late to comment ........

Steel wool & brasso .... worked wonders on mine *bling*

[speeding_ant]

ahhh well too late to comment ........

Steel wool & brasso .... worked wonders on mine *bling*

Yeah, the headers on that bike aren't very nice to be honest. Lots of rust patches, not great quality metal (I guess they were painted from factory for a reason). I got rid of as much rust as humanly possible, and hopefully the manifold paint will retard rust growth for a few years.

Living in Wellington is quite corrosive on bikes...

[nzmikey]

Yeah, the headers on that bike aren't very nice to be honest. Lots of rust patches, not great quality metal (I guess they were painted from factory for a reason). I got rid of as much rust as humanly possible, and hopefully the manifold paint will retard rust growth for a few years.

Living in Wellington is quite corrosive on bikes...

Hrmm ok .... Mine were not painted ... mine were just factory stainless ... but then again it was a 96 Hornet so they may have changed since

[speeding_ant]

Hrmm ok .... Mine were not painted ... mine were just factory stainless ... but then again it was a 96 Hornet so they may have changed since

Yeah I guess so. I could wait until someone crashes one and sells nice shiny headers on Trade Me

[ducatilover]

That high temp paint works well, I've got it on one of my bikes because Kawasaki are idiots and made fugly steel headers