Don't know if it would fit with the style of your build, but on the '74 Sporty chopper I built, I used high heat flat black. It looked mean, and if I scratched it, it was easy to slide some newspaper behind the pipes and just touch it up. I had access to a blast cabinet at the time and I lightly sandblasted the chrome before I painted it.
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docstanley1982
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Debating on getting chrome done as I already have a lot of gloss black in rear end and rims etc.. not sure what chrome would run.. honestly surprised someone else hasn’t started making these drag pipes super popular a lot of demand imo
If there is any pitting at all you will be money ahead fiinding a new set of pipes. Chrome is not cheap, gets worse if there is pitting. I make my own exhaust all the time. Used to make drag pipes but they hurt performance unless you make them long, so no longer use them, if you like the look that fine but 4into1 is the best for these motors and sound better then the 4 short straight pipes.. Cycle x used to be known for their exhaust but dont make them anymore, might be worth giving them a call see if they have some leftovers in stock though.
gunr
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I have short crossover pipes that my brother-in-law had put on the chopper. When the chrome burned and rusted off I used heat resistant silver for a cheap fix. Short pipes don't help these motors, like dirtdigger said. Good pipes aren't cheap!
docstanley1982
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My biggest problem is I’m limited what exhaust I can run as the trike sits low low to the ground..
docstanley1982
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Cleaning up pipes the best I can gotta grind out some bad welds on the brackets and guessing I’m going to have to wrap as I can’t find a better set anywhere yet on the hunt!
docstanley1982
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Nice looking parts
docstanley1982
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Need to add new studs and attach drums and bolt wheels on and rear end is a roller!
Good progress
docstanley1982
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Todays progress officially a roller
Looking back through your thread and saw the pipes. I built an old Harley Shovelhead touring bike that had drag pipes. I made some mods to the pipes and ended up painting them with flat black BBQ paint and attaching some chromed heat shields. I thought the overall look was better than wrapping them, and if they got scraped up they were easy to touch up.
My mods consisted of a couple of welds and cutting off the slash tips. On the Harley, I preferred the sound of the squared off tips better than the slash cuts, but I don't really know if that applies to the Honda. I also played with tuning the pipes to make the bike run better and found that just drilling a hole in the end of the pipe and installing a 5/16"x 3/4" bolt into the exhaust stream helped the tuning of the bike.
My mods consisted of a couple of welds and cutting off the slash tips. On the Harley, I preferred the sound of the squared off tips better than the slash cuts, but I don't really know if that applies to the Honda. I also played with tuning the pipes to make the bike run better and found that just drilling a hole in the end of the pipe and installing a 5/16"x 3/4" bolt into the exhaust stream helped the tuning of the bike.
The sohc likes long pipes
docstanley1982
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Since the 4-4 pipes from macs aren’t available I’m running them wrapped until I can find a pair or someone starts pumping them out again (fingers crossed). Biggest step next up for me is mounting my rear brake master cylinder and waiting for forward controls from tc cycles to arrive to start mocking those up..
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I build all my own exhaust pipes....just use whatever end you need for the motor side then use prebend bends and build your own if you can weld. I use pipe and bends from speedway motors.
docstanley1982
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Lol I need someone to make a replica set of drag pipes as I have never bent pipe
No one around Toledo where I’m from works with 1 7/8 tubing apparently
No one around Toledo where I’m from works with 1 7/8 tubing apparently
I dont bend pipe either....thats why I get prebent bends and cut and weld as needed
docstanley1982
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TC bros forward controls and linkage kit arrived today so working on mock-up next
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