That sounds like a good point on the wrap deadening , insulating and making things more quiet. The wrap would not look that pretty on my build to me tho.
I can ride with a Irish Kilt on a July day with this particular pipe for the most part. Not my preferd attire. With pants on absolutely safe beyond a doubt. I can lay my hand on the pipe any ol time I want to where it comes to my leg and its just a tad warm that's it.
I thought about the aesthetic aspect of the wrap... your right its not that nice looking. Sound is a big deal around here, the scream of a high performance 2 stroke seems to irritate people.
Possible solution?
Why not build the pipe with a removable heat shield, and reinstall the heat shield OVER the wrap?
I think high pipes are popular due to ease of exhaust routing and to keep the pipe out of harms way... Running a $70+ pipe low, in the reach of road obstacles, its more prone to crash damage, hitting a low mount pipe wrong could bust off an exhaust stud-
(with the castings on a china doll? it probably will, Morini exhaust ports are much stronger)
I would like to build a pipe that exited the engine wrapped around the down tube , with the expansion chamber hugging the down tube and crank shell, then turning back and up with the tail pipe and muffler/baffle further back, out of the peddle arch,BUT... theres that low mount vulnerability thing again, as well as the pipe its self not having the proper volume to let the gasses expand.
I guess in the end,mechanical ability, personal taste, money and time dictate what pipe you use.
Yours looks great...
In these parts, we have quite a few stainless steel fabricating shops that specialize in making stainless steel window gates railings and fences.
If one were to purchase some stainless tube bends, and a cheap 110v tig welder then you could cut and fit bends to fabricate a custom pipe, tack welding as you go
(as you probably did) then once your happy with it you remove it and finish all the welds, that's very time consuming and labor intensive.
Unless you really need a custom pipe its much easier to purchase a pipe close to what you want and modifie it to suit.
What we REALLY NEED? A cool looking flexible head pipe that doesn't look like a natural gas line for a kitchen stove.
Hmmmm...
Food for thought.
BBB
