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Exhaust pipe wrapping
- Thread starter canam9
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I did just the pipe on the left side of the bike on my RS because it blistered my left leg on a long ride. I left the others alone. First off get the thinner (width wise thinner) heat wrap unless you are planning to take the pipes off the bike. That makes it much easier to work with although you will have to use more that way to get proper overlap and insulating qualities into the job. Start by lapping the beginning warps over each other heavily and go awhile down the pipe to make sure it is anchored strongly. I then use a fairly heavy commericial grade stainless steel lagging wire and twist it tightly to hold the beginning wraps doublely in place. If you wish you can do that a couple of more times before the wrapping roll runs out and you have to start another roll. At the seems between rolls I use a double wrap of lagging wire to anchor first the one you are going to cover when starting the next roll and then anchoring the second roll over that one. I really use overkill in this job but I am used to wrapping race car headers and often used a pressure washer on them to remove oil or other things from the heat wrap so it wouldn't give me smoke and make me think I had an oil leaf or something. If you own a twist pliers used for safety wiring bolts and nuts in the aircraft and racing community it makes this job much quicker and easier although I used a straight jaw lagging wire cutting pliers last time as I gave a lot of the racing stuff away when I retired from it. By the way Lagging wire is what is used for wiring insulation in place on pipes in industry if you were wondering what I am refering to. I have not needed any heat relief on the RT like I did on the RS so I have no plans to wrap this one. I really think it might have improved my performance maybe a tad but is time consuming and needless for a street and touring machine. I also wonder just how much heat you want to trap in the headers and how much transfer to the engine results and what that can do to an already warm powerplant? Bill
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