• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Exhaust wrapped today

B16 RIK

B16 RIK

Husqvarna
B Class
Well, my exhaust wrap came in the post this afternoon, so i have just stripped the heat shields off, and taken off the side panels, and seat, and spent a while in the garage making the exhaust look a little better, and helping me NOT burn my legs on it... lol. The wrap even came with stainless ties too. Only £9 delivered from 'the bay'.

 
erm..... i see what you are saying, but no, just my socks. :lol:

As far as the heat proofing.... well lets just say, its not very, well, heat proof. After the initial warm up, which needed moving outside due to the fumes pouring off of it, it turns out that the wrap gets REALLY hot too, lol.

Will update when i have been for a decent ride on it, and let you know if it all came unwrapped. :excuseme:
 
B16 RIK said:
As far as the heat proofing.... well lets just say, its not very, well, heat proof. After the initial warm up, which needed moving outside due to the fumes pouring off of it, it turns out that the wrap gets REALLY hot too, lol.
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I've seen some guys who claim the wrap just eventually heats to the temp of the header, then it burns your riding pants just like the bare header would. I am not havimg the same experience. At Tinken's suggestion, I went with the DEI Titanium wrap. It was a bit expensive (and I bought way too much), but the header and bike does run cooler. I was was having a problem with my gas boiling on the TE 511 because the header was so close to the lower tank. Not a problem anymore.
 
I wonder if wrapping the header up to the resonator on an FMF header would increase the effect of the resonator by keeping the exhaust heat inside the pipe to that point so that it carries more energy into the resonator?
 
i have always been led to believe that wrapping an exhaust is more about performance than looks, or heat proofing, as the wrapped exhaust smooths the flow of gas as it carries it through the pipe, due to the lower amount of heat escaping through the sides. I however, just like how it looks, lol. :)
 
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