This Saturday night, I put a hole in one of my headers going over a curb. I have a buddy who gave me a set of pristine F2 headers to replace the ones I holed, and after taking mine off, I noticed they were both way different. Long story short, my weigh maybe 4lbs less than the stock ones, and have 5mm (~3/16") bigger collectors tubes than stock. Upon seeing that I welded on a patch and slapped them back on the bike, instead of going back to stock and having a rich running motor.

The best thing is that my bike's already been jetted for these bad boys and runs great with nary a badly lean or rich spot all along the rev range. Not bad for a free bike! It's good to know someone paid a lot of attention to my bike back when it was hot stuff.

 

pics of teh sexiness

 

Ok, here they are after I got the bike and painted them with some VHT ceramic header paint.

Here they are mid repair:


And here's a pic of the plate that i bent up and my brother welded on. Of course, he had to put his initials on it.



I've got to paint them again (and better!) but that will happen when I get another running bike.

 

LOL i think its funny that he put his initals on there.

Congrats though. haha

 

some dude who had my bike before put his initials underneath the back part of the seat where the passenger sits. LOL

 

I pinched 1 and 2 shut in my accident. I will see if I have any pics of them.

 

Those are some scabby welds, and I would have killed him if he put that **** on mine lol.

Speaking of headers, just got mine back:

 

Nice.

 

Eh, the welds aren't that bad (other than his sig). The crappy phone camera makes them look worse. Without a TIG machine and a lot more time, there's not too much else I could have done. I had to ride it that night. Also it was on a bend and where the other pipes come together at the bottom. I guess we could have recessed it and spend 8hr hammering together a bit, but it doesn't really matter. There are no leaks!

Nice pipes Sand.Man. My pipes are still 36% larger in area.

 

Do you know who makes those headers? I just bought those same ones and they sound great! But I dont know who makes them... Damn ebay and people not knowing what they have lol