BURKE_DADDY Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 This is from the toomey website Q. What are the benefits / downside of chrome plating? A. Chrome Plating helps your pipes look great! Chrome Plating has a high resistance to corrosion and improves the overall looks of your machine. Although not a perfect solution, it can turn yellow or blue with heat. If your engine is running properly with our pipes, the headpipes will turn blue after long periods of sustained full throttle operation, it is a purely a function of temperature. Regarding bluing: All chrome plating will turn blue when exposed to sufficient heat. Anybody who tells you any different is crazy. It is inherent in the material. We have heard stories of some customers who have friends with another brand of pipes whose chrome never blues. I believe them. The difference here is temperature. We are the only pipe company that supplies you with the "Perfect Jetting Kit" that provides your Banshee with the exact carburation required by this combination. You can be assured of maximum performance because your Banshee will be jetted accurately, and therefore produce the optimum operating temperatures to make maximum horsepower (heat is power). The competing systems do not. Their temperatures are lower and therefore are not producing the best power, or heat, thus no bluing. That's why. If you don't want them to blue, then run your bike richer. If you want to blow in enough raw fuel to extinguish the combustion temperatures enough to lower the power output so as to not blue the pipes you will have success. (Why would you buy the highest power racing pipes available if you don't want to use all the power? Why else do you ride a Banshee?) We believe the power is the primary goal and the relative beauty of the chrome is strictly secondary. Bluing is not covered under warranty. If you have any further questions, or you need some help, please call our Technical Service Staff (805)-239-8870, or eMail to tech@toomey.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harpc88 Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 I think it is the oil from your hands. That's what I have always heard. So I tried it. With my new set of pipes I installed them with rubber gloves on so that oil off of my hands wouldn't contact the pipes. I'm happy to say that those pipes didn't ever turn blue. If you don't wanna use gloves make sure and take plenty of time to wipe the pipes down very well. Another idea that I thought was sloppy was to spray hight temperature paint inside the necks of the pipes to keep that blue from showing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnite Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 (edited) Don't know if this is true, but I've heard using 87 octane will turn chrome pipes blue, and higher octane gas doesn't. My 99 came with chrome pcp's already blued 4 inches from the jugs. Edited October 14, 2005 by midnite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Duece Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 its pretty goddamm hot right there at the exhaust port, ive never had any bike with chrome pipes street or dirt not blue for about the first four to six inches, id say its normal jetted lean or rich, hot is hot......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justintoxicated Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Interesting, your FMF's turning blue, since FMF does not chrome plate pipes...At least mine were nickle plated.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansh88 Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 My FMFs turned more of a brown. I always thought people were full of shit when they said they had no blueing. Maybe they dont ride hard or long enough. My new shee with T5s went out last weekend. Put about 3 hours of actual riding on them. No "blue" yet. But I can see the slight discoloration already. My brothers T5s had a nice 4 or so inches of blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireman-hott Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 I've rode on a few sets of chrome rockets, rode with local guys that bought some off me too, none of us have had any blueing. I think it has to do with us running on the richer side as within the last 2 weeks its gone form 80* down to 30* than back up to 70* and now around 50* so we keep it 2 jets rich at 80*, helps keep us from burning up the engines. Real tests are when we hit the lake and run for miles Wide Open. Hopefully thelake stays frozen this year more than a week and we can hit the 300ft ice drags. You coming out to Lake George this year Batouttahell? We wait till theres some snow on the ground and flattrack from the house 2 miles to the lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketboy Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 my rockets ,my shearers ,my procircuits never once turned blue, i ve only seen toomey t5 sets turn it though,i belive its in the pipes design ,its that first bend that allows gases to become very hot over the other brands eve n for only breif runs they change,plus theyre thin too . toomeys are good pipes regardless .fix this by spraying ceramic high tempeture paint (auto store ) INSIDE the pipe near the opening flange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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