Blue headers

What do u mean plug chops?

Do a search on the subject. Here's one.
Steve
www.kzrider.com/forum/3-carburetor/58958...-kz750-m1-csr#594133

Nerdy wrote:

Tyrell Corp wrote: I like blueing on the downpipe tops. Looks almost multicolour , like irridescent anodising.

Blued finish on chrome headers is indicative of excessive heat and/or a low-quality chrome finish. Neither condition is desirable so I'm not sure why you would like such a thing, but it's your bike.

After five years...:





...and the blues haven't brought me down yet.

My Vance and Hines stayed nice for years except for a little very light gold maybe on the upper 1/4th of the header.... then after the 700 kit it went a little golder then a couple of inches of blue over maybe 20% of the top of the pipes..... a little more heat from all that power..... cough cough.:lol:

My fathers 76 kz900 has a 1015
Piston kit, 29 smoothbores, pod filters, and the same v&h exhaust as mine. His is gold like u described. We cant figure out why mine are blue. Weve tested the air fuel ratio and through all the rpms its rich. Its getting good compression and runs great

KZB2 650 wrote: My Vance and Hines stayed nice for years except for a little very light gold maybe on the upper 1/4th of the header.... then after the 700 kit it went a little golder then a couple of inches of blue over maybe 20% of the top of the pipes..... a little more heat from all that power..... cough cough.:lol:

:woohoo:

Closer-up:


Iridescent-Neon-Fluorescent:


Closer-up yet:

daveo wrote:

Nerdy wrote:

Tyrell Corp wrote: I like blueing on the downpipe tops. Looks almost multicolour , like irridescent anodising.

Blued finish on chrome headers is indicative of excessive heat and/or a low-quality chrome finish. Neither condition is desirable so I'm not sure why you would like such a thing, but it's your bike.

After five years...:

...and the blues haven't brought me down yet.

I imagine this is what Tyrell imagines when he says he likes bluing. Those look amazing to me as well. Your bike in general is just WOW though.

This is after 3 hours of running, revving, and also 100 miles of riding.

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configuration#1 & #2 may be running lean, but it's difficult to tell with the lighting...

This stuff works well at rubbing the blues away, but it ain't a simple wipe-on and wipe-off kind of thing:

I tried that stuff, didn't work. Still have some.
Steve

I dont care so much about the pipe coloring as i am the tune of the engine. I know theyre running rich so t should be good right

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If header colour is an indicaton of excess heat then why is it that whilst the Inner pots of an aircooled inline four run hotter - but I'm not seeing any significant differences in the bluing compared to the outer headers.

My stainless pipe has a yellow tinge at the headers, again equal discoloration on both inner and outer headers