My New Custom Exhaust

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chrisf

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If you guys remember, I cracked my CL pipes on the way into work last week. The infamous Mysta2, Milenko and I are off to a hotrod show tomorrow that is 30 miles away. Needless to say, I needed a solution ASAP. I had it in my head that I needed a 2-1 exhaust system. Sadly, due to timing, I had to make my own merge collector.

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Then I welded it up. I wish I could have TIGed it, but the electrician is coming today to wire it up. So I had to go with MIG. Luckily, it came out well and the insides are all sharp as a knife

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These were the CB360 pipes from my brother's cafe racer. It took quite a bit of chopping and fabricating to get it done. Once completed, I painted it with VHT and wrapped it up. The DEI wrap I used on this exhaust is much better (product-wise) than the Cool It wrap I used previously. This time, I wrapped it up, then removed the wrap and wetted it out. This worked so much better than dry wrapping it.

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The exhaust tip is a 2" polished stainless piece I had kicking around the garage. I wish I had pics of the exhaust mounted; perhaps tomorrow. So these will be used for the summer. If I like them, I'll duplicate them in stainless. My hat's off to BCR for his custom exhaust. Building exhaust is a spatial pain in the ass. And his are much more complicated than mine.

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Fin!

--Chris
 
I'm psyched to get some pics of the three bikes together. It started last night! So I think I'm good to go, just need to finish beating my rinky-dink headlight brackets into shape. The truck should be good to go too, just add water (haven't tried to start it yet though)

dilemma.
 
You have to just say no to the truck. If one of the bikes breaks, we could quickly get a trailer and tow it home. If the truck breaks down...well, it's a lot more trouble.

You're welcome to that welder again. She's loaded up with wire and you're welcome to use as much gas as you'd like. I need that tank empty so i can fill it with the argon.

What did you think of the pipes?

Well done on starting the bike. What was the problem? What are you going to do for foot controls?

--Chris
 
See I figured if the truck breaks down, offload the bike and finish the trip, double my chances for success, we'll see.

For tomorrow I wont have foot controls, I'll bolt up the "pegs", go without a rear brake and either flip the shifter and go motoGP style or just freeform shift, or maybe see if I can work out some mid pegs. One of my problems was the crossover, it's plugged up somewhere, then the petcock gave me trouble, I swapped the coils and regrounded it, by which time the battery was down from kicking it so much. After a recharge it took about 10 kicks to get it started, folowing that it took 2 kicks, and when I tried it out this morning 1 kick.

The pipes look good, I'd really like to invesitate how it all works out since that's close to what I want to do with 69. We should plan on Lochrins tonight or an earlier ride down Lebanon, I need to get some riding in before taking it all the way to Justin.
 
That is sweet Chris. I'm so envious. I would love to have a welder to be able to do stuff like that. When I did my intercooler pipes I had to do the cutting and fitting then bring them somewhere to get welded. Killed me to not be able to do them myself. Great job they look really nice, be sure to post a pic when you have them on the bike. Love seeing DIY stuff like this.

You mentioned the DEI wrap was better than the last wrap you used, what exactly do you mean? Was it easier to wrap? I bought cheaper ebay wrap and it seemed ok, but I never really had any experience to compare it against. Thought it would all be pretty much the same.
 
I always assumed the Cool It Brand wrap was the best, so that's what I always used. I picked up this DEI stuff at o' Reilly's and it works great. It's hard to explain; it just wrapped better and seems like better quality stuff. The wrap itself cost the same as the Cool It, but obviously, i didn't have to pay shipping. If your stuff works, I'd just stick with that.

Sadly, this was my fourth time to wrap pipes!

I'm surprised they let you cut and prep your own ali tube. You got lucky and saved a bunch...

--Chris
 
chrisf said:
I'm surprised they let you cut and prep your own ali tube. You got lucky and saved a bunch...
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I actually just used mild steel mandrel bent exhaust pipe. I did get lucky with the guys that welded it, great bunch of guys. I used to cut a piece or two, mark it and drop it off over lunch, pick it up the next day, and kept repeating this until all the pipe was done! They never even charged much and sometimes not at all.
 
very cool... as stated by others it makes me wish i knew how to weld. def can not wait to see the final product on the bike
 
Chris - when you post a YouTube video, you can now just paste the entire link into the post and the board will take care of the rest. If you just paste the ID of the video, then you need to use the YouTube tags around it to make it work.
 
check out what I just cam across on the hamb:

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Waiting for our slow asses.
 
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