Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Never posted the finished 2 into 1 collector.......

I never posted my 2 into1 collector system after I finished off the welds on all the joints. This will look killer in gloss black porcelain. If you can't tell, this is my homage to Dick Allen, and his pioneering collector system, with a few of my own tweaks. Well worth the time it took to make this, I'm stoked.

This goes right along with Dick's aluminum rear wheel I'm using, which is off in this photo. I'm sending it in to Centerline for a rehab. Did you know that Centerline will remove the old sealer between the rims, re-seal it, give it a full polish, and send it back for $55.00 ???? Are you kidding me ????? I'm also getting the hubs and the rotor carrier polished here in town while the wheel is away. And, I got a chance to drill the 16, 5/16" holes in the solid rear belt pulley, spaced in the same pattern as the wheel's rivets, and hand-bucked in the high-domed hard aluminum rivets. Now the pulley matches the wheel.
I didn't want band clamps for the merge pipe connection, and I know you can buy these from Cone Eng., Burns Stainless, etc, but I just couldn't see buying two - they probably wouldn't have fit up as well, and they aren't as thick as I made these. If I were doing a V-8, and needed 8 pairs, yeah...I'd have bought them. I just have them tacked in place here, but the whole system is pretty strong, and self-supporting. I'm still going to add a small support to the collector itself.

4 comments:

Jahluv said...

Getting closer! Looks real good...

Mario13 said...

How do these pipes perform and do you run a baffle in them? Also curious about if there is any sort of gasket where the two pipes connect to the collector? They look awesome!

Irish Rich said...

Mario, Don't know how well they will run yet, I'm not finished with the bike. But, I think that the collector will work well. No, there isn't any baffleing in the collector. Once I get it out on the street, I can baffle it in if I need to. Cone Eng. (Megs) has some really trick muffler core components for DIY mufflers, if I need them for tuning.

There won't be any gasket where the pipes enter the merge, I'm just going to use a coating of Permatex Ultra Copper High temp sealer before I slide them together when I'm doing the final put-together. That's the sealer RB racing recommends to seal their collectors, and the Ultra copper is (or maybe they make it for them) similar to Harley's pipe sealer. Also, the pipes can be disassembled with the Ultra Copper fairly easily if need be.

Fab Kevin said...

Looks super nice, Rich. Carla thinks you need some weed and feed to cut down on those dandelions though...