Exhaust wrap
#2
yea go to grocery store get a cheap big plastic mixing bowl...its after halloween i bet you could get a cheap big candy bowl. Also go to soap isle and get your self some of those yellow thick rubbermaid lunch lady gloves. go home soak wrap for about 15 min before you start then every little bit just got over it with you other hand and twist it in the direction your wrapping to keep it tight and help squeeze some water out...also i see you have an iron so your old heat shield screw ties will work great. i did just this and used them and mine has been trouble free for about 6000 miles.
#4
yea you deff need to take the pipes off. overlap try to keep it between and 1/8 and 1/4 if you go to much you can cause hot spots on the pipe which can mess with exhaust flow. also do it over a big cardboard or something that wipes clean easy if your using a colored exhaust wrap b.c it stains.
#5
#7
Although it's not necessary to take the pipes off, as JustJump mentioned, it makes things WAY easier. Also, as far as securing the pipewrap, I've wrapped multiple sets of pipes, and the best way I've found to do it is to use Stainless steel hose clamps, the kind with the worm screw, to secure the wrap at the top. Give a little bit of play room for the flanges to move around, make about 2 full wraps, pull the pipewrap tight and put on your clamp. For a clean look, wrap back over it, and you'll never notice it there. THe clamps hold up better than safety wire does, and if you wrap over them, again, you can't see it's even there. I used stainless safety wire at the end of this set of pipes, double wrapped (For example: I went around clockwise, twisted one full twist, then went counter-clock, cut to length, then did my final twist together to pull it up tight.), then secured. It gives a good "semi-dirty" old school feel that is one of those little subtle things.
Depending on what pipes you're wrapping and how far you're going, you can also wrap over the mounting bracket on the pipe itself. Slide the double-nut into the slot, put the bolts in all the way down, then wrap over them, once you've finished wrapping, and have secured the end of the wrap, just take a gerber tool or a sharp smooth blade over the head of the bolt in a cross patern so that you can pull the wrap away just enough to pull the bolt out.
Here's a picture of my shortshots that I just wrapped a week or so ago. It's a cool custom look for a manufactured set of pipes.
Depending on what pipes you're wrapping and how far you're going, you can also wrap over the mounting bracket on the pipe itself. Slide the double-nut into the slot, put the bolts in all the way down, then wrap over them, once you've finished wrapping, and have secured the end of the wrap, just take a gerber tool or a sharp smooth blade over the head of the bolt in a cross patern so that you can pull the wrap away just enough to pull the bolt out.
Here's a picture of my shortshots that I just wrapped a week or so ago. It's a cool custom look for a manufactured set of pipes.
Trending Topics
#9
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post