Stainless Steel Downpipes

[WhiteBeard]

When did the FJ downpipes turn stainless?
Looking at a pair of used 1988 pipes, would be nice to buy them and polish them if that is the case.

/Nat

[Pat Conlon]

'84/85's had the black chrome double wall tubes, in '86 they went to single wall stainless....you are good to go...

I had one of my '84 double wall pipes break on me at the WCR... What a friggin racket.... Even the Harley guys were impressed.

It sounded awful.

[WhiteBeard]

Great! 

Yes, I know the sound you're talking about...

[Derek Young]

Sounds very tractor-esque Pat.

[FJmonkey]

Sounds very tractor-esque Pat.

That was Pat's new (super secrete, but not super quiet) Diesle 1400 cc engine.

[Pat Conlon]

ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang.... jeeze louise.  It sure freaked me out when I first heard it.

Thinking, oh fuck, there goes the tour I've waited for all year.... At the hotel I said, "Hey Randy, come over here and listen to this..."
His eyes got real big and he said, "Well...That's a new noise I've never heard before...."

The saving grace was, that once at speed (with my ear plugs in) I couldn't hear it.....

....only when I slowed down... ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang.

A godawful noise for sure... All the way to Gunnison and back...ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang ah nang.......

I still hear it in my sleep.  

[Derek Young]

If it makes you feel any better Pat, its the purdyest diesel tractor i ever did see.

[Pat Conlon]

Thanks lad, it's all better now. I found some '86 pipes I forgot I had......They sure look purdy.... almost as good as Leon's.

[moparman70]

Thanks lad, it's all better now. I found some '86 pipes I forgot I had......They sure look purdy.... almost as good as Leon's.

There goes my free polish job for mine I guess ...eh Pat ....damn

stevecc

[1tinindian]

Thanks lad, it's all better now. I found some '86 pipes I forgot I had......They sure look purdy.... almost as good as Leon's.

ahh, shucks! thanks father Pat.

Leon

[FJmonkey]

Thanks lad, it's all better now. I found some '86 pipes I forgot I had......They sure look purdy.... almost as good as Leon's.

There goes my free polish job for mine I guess ...eh Pat ....damn

stevecc

I'm calling a foul here on Steve.  He keeps trying get me paint my pipes Black when I tell him I am gonna polish them. Fess up Steve, you are closet Polisher!!! And stop being a weinie.

[simi_ed]

And, it MAY sound like a tractor, but it DOESN'T look like an AMBULANCE!

[moparman70]

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I'm calling a foul here on Steve.  He keeps trying get me paint my pipes Black when I tell him I am gonna polish them. Fess up Steve, you are closet Polisher!!! And stop being a weinie.
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I maybe ...lol but seriously you have done a lot to your bike and if you not going to polish them you can make them look better buy quickly painting them --- and when you do decide to polish the paint will come off pretty easily.