Heat Wrap
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Heat Wrap
I was at the exhaust shop getting new Magnaflow tips and I noticed how hot the SR mid pipe and the catback was and I was wondering if heat wrap would really do anything.
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The tips are 3" Magnaflow tips. They do stick out too far and are slightly off angle but my friends tell me I'm crazy. I am going to get them fixed this weekend. The shop that sold me the tips and installed them gave me a hell of a deal and did a great job fixing up the SR mid pipe. I paid like $70.00 for the tips installed so...... Now I am thinking I should have went with 4" tips.
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Using header wrap will change the sound of your exhaust because of the simple fact that as you contain more heat in the exhaust rather than being lost to the surroundings it causes the exhaust speeds to remain high increasing power and altering the sound. However as a warning the wraps causes the pipes to retain heat much longer and can lead to premature failure of the pipes. The most effective way to maintain higher internal temperatures with out the risk of destroying the pipes would be by using a thermal coating (much more expensive).
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I've wrapped a lot of motorcycle exhaust with the stuff and it usually causes a "better" tone. There's only one time I can think that I had something with your raspy type sound and it made it better but didn't get rid of it.
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Make sure you wrap them correctly and soak the wrap if need be (directions) to get a tight wrap. If done incorrectly you can get moisture in there down the road which will cause the pipes to crack or break at the welds.
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Thanks guys. I'll take better non filthy pics with a real camera later but I got the tips fixed. just need to polish them up after all the welding grime.
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Old thread but bumping because I'm curious if heat wrapping the header actually got rid of the metal tin sound...because I'm experiencing that right now with my midpipe, and it's by far the most annoying thing in the world. :/