Question about stock up-pipes....
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Question about stock up-pipes....
I'm hoping that someone can tell me... why is there steel wool in my up pipe?
I finished gutting a spare up-pipe I bought, and when I started cleaning out the inside of it I noticed... some sort of steel mesh sticking into the pipe from around the flex section.
So I grabbed my needlenose and yanked on it. Yep, steel wool.
Is the up pipe safe to use with a few strands of this stuff (maybe 2mm long) sticking into the inside of the pipe? Or will they eventually break off and eat my turbo?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I finished gutting a spare up-pipe I bought, and when I started cleaning out the inside of it I noticed... some sort of steel mesh sticking into the pipe from around the flex section.
So I grabbed my needlenose and yanked on it. Yep, steel wool.
Is the up pipe safe to use with a few strands of this stuff (maybe 2mm long) sticking into the inside of the pipe? Or will they eventually break off and eat my turbo?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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i have personalyl modified tons of stock exhaust from cars to motorcycles and A LOT of them use the steel wool as sound deadening material. That should answer your first question.
as far as running it with that stuff still in it I WOULD NOT DO IT. when the magnesium cat material was in there it held that stuff on the walls of the pipe, with it no longer there that stuff will break lose and quite possibly mess up your turbo. My advice is to keep hacking at it until you get all that stuff out of there. It'll probably take you another couple of hours of work but it much safer.
hope that helps you somewhat.
as far as running it with that stuff still in it I WOULD NOT DO IT. when the magnesium cat material was in there it held that stuff on the walls of the pipe, with it no longer there that stuff will break lose and quite possibly mess up your turbo. My advice is to keep hacking at it until you get all that stuff out of there. It'll probably take you another couple of hours of work but it much safer.
hope that helps you somewhat.
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Thanks for the responses...
I'm definitely not going to run the pipe until it's free of any and all bits of wire.
I'm pretty frustrated with the bloody thing, as I can't think of any reason why sound deadening material should've worked its way *inside* the pipe... I've got a few more ideas for potential fixes to try before I scrap it, though.
I'm definitely not going to run the pipe until it's free of any and all bits of wire.
I'm pretty frustrated with the bloody thing, as I can't think of any reason why sound deadening material should've worked its way *inside* the pipe... I've got a few more ideas for potential fixes to try before I scrap it, though.
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