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Oddjob:
Dunno Roo, I'd have thought spot welded on the outside but looking at the pics they could have been assemble onto the mounting plate, welded on the inside of that plate and then the plate welded to the collector box.
One thing you may have considered but decided against because your not sure how it would look but I had a set of 1300 headers done in CermaKrome a few years ago and they were all in one piece like yours, looked like this at the end.
Not as bright as chrome but no rusting afterwards and extremely durable. Still in perfect nick when the bike got written off, I'd have salvaged the exhaust headers but one pipe got crushed.
Laverdaroo:
Was it mouth watering lay expensive though Ken? They look sound.
I’d be up for that cos I really don’t want to faff with these and potentially knacker them. That sounds a much better option!
Got any deets of who and what etc ?
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Oddjob:
That cost me about £140 in 2010 IIRC, it was done at CamCoat in Warrington but your local ceramic coater should also be able to do that. Admittedly my headers weren't as bad as yours and they did sort of complain about the fact they couldn't split the pipes but they did a decent job.
Maybe pop into your local ceramic coater and see if they have any samples of how it looks, it's not a dull finish but not as bright as chrome but I'd say unless you stood right by the bike you'd not notice the difference.
Same pipes, about 18 months later, taken in December after running the bike through the winter, the dull coating is road dirt, this was taken when the bike was recovered after the accident. Bike hadn't been cleaned for weeks. The inner pipe shows the finish better as I think someone cleaned some dirt off it when moving the bike.
Laverdaroo:
That’ll do, more bling to fool the buyer and to get over a problem sounds spot on to me. I’ll call them tmrw, cheers bud
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mickwinf:
I think the original pipes were chromed first then welded as the area around the join is painted with a silver paint which is then disguised with a chrome cover. also it would be a nightmare to line them up again so the ceramic coat sounds like a better idea.
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