Exhaust Welds

andrew s · Post by **andrew s** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:20 pm

Has anybody out there taken their headers off and removed the excess welding from within the exhaust. If so how did you do it and does it make a difference.

Cheers,
Andrew

gus · Post by **gus** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:14 pm

Yes i,ve done it.There are some pics i,ve posted about it somewhere.I used a power file.I did the manifold ends and the ends that go into the Y piece.Seat of the pants tells me i,ve got a least 10bhp more.

Ok Ok .So i may be exaggerating slightly,more like 9.5bhp!
Ok i cant tell f**k all difference!
gus
cant have helped matters with all that weld blocking escaping gases though.
pics are under exhaust headers/welds in tech forum.

stempy · Post by **stempy** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:08 pm

I did it too but only gained 8.75 bhp

It must make a difference though as a Boxercup entrant was disqualified for doing it.

andrew s · Post by **andrew s** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:11 pm

Cheers Lads,

Can you now tell me were I could get this done. Will do it in the winter when I lay the bike up from the terrible Scottish winter. Poor GS will have to take the brunt of it.

Andrew

stempy · Post by **stempy** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:01 pm

andrew s wrote:Cheers Lads,

Can you now tell me were I could get this done. Will do it in the winter when I lay the bike up from the terrible Scottish winter. Poor GS will have to take the brunt of it.

Andrew

In your shed

andrew s · Post by **andrew s** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:43 am

Thanks for that Andy, if I did it there would be no exhaust left, and I havn't got a shed. Would a normal Welders/Fabricaters place be able to do it.

Andrew

stempy · Post by **stempy** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:14 am

Any engineering metal workers be able to do it, or a tuning shop with port grinding gear.