T5 Chrome?

[BlackBanshee50]

Im going to order a new set of t5s and I was curious about their chrome. I heard that the chrome they put on sucks and doesnt last very long? How true is this? Im willing to order them plain and just have my local chrome shop do a nice triple plate. Just curious.

[06BaNsHeE]

there chrome looks nice and last long.I had a buddy with t6s and its been over a year and his chrome looks nice.

[ClimbAnyHill]

I've seen some that looked realy nice and some turned blueish by the exhast ports.. Like the first 5 inches of the pipe. Is that incorrect jetting or is the chrome just that cheap?

I just blacked out my pipes :shrug:

[fastrthnu]

I've seen some that looked realy nice and some turned blueish by the exhast ports.. Like the first 5 inches of the pipe. Is that incorrect jetting or is the chrome just that cheap?

I just blacked out my pipes :shrug:

 

yea I think the bluing is from improper jetting too. once I leaned mine a little and they began to turn but I fixed it before they blued. They are just alittle brown like 2-3 inches from the port. I dont like the chrome, but I live 3 miles from Ft. Lauderdale beach, so the air is salty here. Im getting a little pitting. Might not be so bad in other places though. :shrug: A triple chrome would last awhile her though.

[wrecker03]

The bluing is natural and, according to Toomey, if your jetted perfectly the first couple of inches of your pipes should blue. The hottest point on the pipe is going to be at the exhaust port. . The more of it you have the hotter your pipe is, and the heat is going to be driven by your fuel type and jetting. When I picked up mine the pipes were pretty blued up so I started researching it. Well the guy I bought it from was using AV gas which is high octane and running a little lean so that built up a lot of heat which blued the pipes. You might want to look at getting uncoated pipes and look into Jet Hot (www.jethot.com). It's a ceramic coating that shines like chrome but will not blue because it can handle temps upwards of 1200 deg.

[Duner440]

One of my friends has a 2000 Banshee that he bought new and installed chrome T5s and they still look great to this day. I dont think you could go wrong buying T5s.

[shanYE west]

I think Toomey's have a very nice finish. They're alot better then FMF, Pro Circuit, and Shearers Production chrome.

[5150banshee]

i have had mine for about 3 seasons and they still look good.

[locogato11283]

ive had t5's. the chrome is good and i never had any blueing..

[Animalman294]

I've ran T-5's for five years now and they still look as good as the day they were put on............

[Justintoxicated]

The bluing is natural and, according to Toomey, if your jetted perfectly the first couple of inches of your pipes should blue. The hottest point on the pipe is going to be at the exhaust port. . The more of it you have the hotter your pipe is, and the heat is going to be driven by your fuel type and jetting. When I picked up mine the pipes were pretty blued up so I started researching it. Well the guy I bought it from was using AV gas which is high octane and running a little lean so that built up a lot of heat which blued the pipes. You might want to look at getting uncoated pipes and look into Jet Hot (www.jethot.com). It's a ceramic coating that shines like chrome but will not blue because it can handle temps upwards of 1200 deg.

 

Race/aviation Gas will Burn cooler than regular.

 

The new CHROME FMF pipes look sweet I don't know which is better.

 

I heard you don't want to tripple plate Pipes...I don't remember why.

[grounded]

mine are getting chromed right now, I bought these used, whoever had them before me must have run real lean , pipes were blue fo maybe 8 ". It also looked like some type of cleaner was used and stained parts of the finish.

[KaosBanshee44]

The blueish color that forms on the smaller part of the pipe is suppose to be there. There pipes are nice but is said that when they turn that blue color is when the pipe is broke in and your getting the full power that the pipe is suppose to put out. As far as the chrome it will last forever as long as you take care of it and clean it after rides and make sure water and moisture isn't on it all the time.

[Animalman294]

Yeah, I polish mine once in a while and they still look really good. The only bummer is that the bracket attached to the expansion chamber on the right pipe has rust between it and the pipe. It almost looked like the chrome didn't take right there for some reason................