anybody have tips for exhaust wrap???

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passenbij

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We used stainless steel pipe clamps when I helped my son....
started at the header and worked our way to the baffles.
4 hands holding, pulling, and wrapping.....
Soaked the rolls in a bucket of water for an hour or so,
before starting the wrapping session.

Just looked at the pic, this was before we cut the
plastic zip-ties off.....the head of the stainless clamp
faces back towards the motor and doesn't really show
once it was mounted on the bike.
 
I have to second this and wear one of those throw away mouth/nose covers. I had to remove some of this crap from a set of headers I bought and it was bad.
 
The last bike I had header wrap on was a Bonneville bobber I used to run when I lived in Boulder a few years back. The entire exhaust system consisted of the original header pipes cut a little short, with a lollipop baffle in the ends, and wrapped in header wrap. Looked as old school as it gets and probably cost me about 40 bucks to put together IIRC. (There's another bike I never should have gotten rid of.) Had that bike for 3 years, and absolutely no problems with my headers falling apart.

I don't think anybody argues that good quality stanless headers are completely safe to wrap. Some guys have reported problems with mild steel headers (and maybe thin wall stainless), and others have had no problems at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xH-8fNq6Ok
 
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