GSX600 Headers? I guess not...

[steves]

So, the GSX600 header I bought showed up today. Excited with it's arrival I ran right out to the garage and tried to fit the pipes up.

To my dismay, the distances between the pipes is different!

So I guess I can either try to bend these pipes to the correct distances, or sell them and try again?

[Waltari]

Those look like gsxr600 pipes (watercooled) not gsxf600 pipes (oilcooled). Best to throw them back on ebay and hunt for the correct headers.

[01Katman]

yeah i'm pretty sure those are newer style gsxr pipes, there was a set of bandit 1200 pipes on ebay that sold for 30 bucks 2 days ago. I was gonna try and get em but i'ma have to wait till next month to upgrade anything else

[damic]

I have a set of 98+ 600 headers if you want them.

[sonny]

I need a set of 93 600 headers, mine are rusted to shhh

[The CyberPoet]

I need a set of 93 600 headers, mine are rusted to shhh

Unless they are actually rusted through, you can salvage them.
Method A:
Remove.
Have sand blasted or bead blasted (they must be 100% clean in a way sanding simply won't do)
Now it's your choice: either have them ceramic coated (visit your local powdercoater, about $150 including the blasting), paint with an exhaust-rated epoxy paint (such as POR-20) or high-temp BBQ paint.
Reinstall.

Method B:
Remove.
Sand lightly (wire brush will do) and coat heavily with a rust converter that will change the rust to magnetite. Wait to cure & reapply yet again, soaking it well a 2nd time. Again allow to dry & cure.
Now paint with an exhaust-rated epoxy paint (such as POR-20) or BBQ paint.

As MD86 will tell you (as well as countless others), you can't just sand away the rust -- if there is any rust left, the paint will fall off in a few weeks (or even days) and the rust will repear.

Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet

[md86]

Yeah , mine rusted thgouh again in about 2 days , after I had spent about 3 days and half a bottle of naval jelly on mine . Now , where can I get this converter junk again ?

[The CyberPoet]

Now , where can I get this converter junk again ?

I got mine from the local metal supplier that provides large-quantity metal stocks... I can't remember what brand it was, though (Foss? Goss? something like that, liquid phosphate bath, close-out priced at $10/gal as a liquid in a clear plastic bottle).

You might want to search the web, or try Rust-X Converter by Superior Industries (email [email protected] ) and see if their spray would be the right thing for the type of temps an exhaust goes through.

Cheers
=-= The CyberPoet

[md86]

Roger . Thanks again for helping those too lazy to search on their own .