Expansion Chamber Preservation

[Jack Stotts]

What is the best treatment for making expansion chambers look good and preserve them. Mine is ceramic coated but I've seen some chrome plated. What is recommended.

[SAWYER]

I Painted Mine With High Heat Flat Black Grille Paint And They Have Stayed Perfect.

[T Chance]

I Painted Mine With High Heat Flat Black Grille Paint And They Have Stayed Perfect.

That's what I do too.

[pro350hydro]

Leave them plain and spray with wd-40 before and after use.

[reed28n]

Pipe

Buy a really fast prop. You pipe will look awesome

[David Weaver]

That's Great Advice

Buy a really fast prop. You pipe will look awesome

Classic boat racer advice!!

I wipe my pipes down with a light oil after draining them for a few minutes. I store them in bags (the ones that fold-up chairs from Wal-mart come in) and over the time the inside of the bags become failry "oiled" thus helping to prevent rust/corrosion on the pipes.

I believe that you to avaoid adding any materials that would cause the pipe exhaust to cool. I believe the hotter the pipes/exhaust the better.

[HYDRO21Z]

Oil'em

I took a pro racers advice and oil them heavily with WD-40 after use, and
dried. I then put them in Rifle cases with the soft lining that has over time
absorbed the oil and keeps them oiled, dry, and protected from dings.
Thats what I do Jack, seems to work for me.

Dennis

[Jack Stotts]

You guys are saving me money. Thanks for the advise. My old pipe, as I mentioned, was ceramic coated at that process costs as much as the pipe.
I also appreciate the solid and well thought out advise on the prop. Jack

[Al Peffley]

Pipes

Jack,

I use a pair of old jeans with the legs tied at the cuff to protect my pipes when I travel (a trick I learned from Bill Diamond), and I always use WD-40 liberally at the race site. Superclean works good to clean any residual grease and grime off of the pipes before storage on tape-covered hanger hooks. I use plastic plugs to cap both ends of the pipes when not in use. My pro pipes are also "thinly" coated with a ceramic metal coating used on drag strip fuelie car engine headers. I like the idea also that a bright pipe might be easier to find in the bottom muck after an accident or a retention safety cable failure. One set of my pipes are ceramic-coated, and the rest are painted flat black. You are right -- the metal ceramic coating on my pro motor pipes cost more than ALL of the rest of my pipes did new... Few racers chrome pipes any more out here in the west.

Al Peffley
R-25