[SPAM] Re: Pipe Life Questions

[Wayne Galligan]

I assume this is an aluminum pipe your all talking about.

Does carbon build up in a carbon fiber pipe?

Wayne G.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: T&C Brown 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Pipe Life Questions


  Bill,
  That's how I clean my Hatori pipes.  Works great....Just throw the sucker in the 5 gal bucket for two - three hours, rotating it end over end once, and they come out looking like new.  You'd be amazed how much carbon builds up on the inside.  
  Now if I only had the guts to try it with my carbon pipe!  (BG)!

  T-Bone

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Bill Glaze 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 8:35 AM
    Subject: [SPAM] Re: Pipe Life Questions


    Buff (and others who have had the same problem)
    About how many flights did it take to get the pipe blockage that you folks are talking about?  Obviously, it announces itself by degrading engine performance, and I was curious about when to start looking for the problem.  One of my Hatori pipes had a lot of crud on the outside, and I cleaned it with some Airplane Cleaner that I picked up at Advanced Auto Parts.  It took several applications, but did a fair job of cleaning.  But--that's not the same as the inside of the pipe.  When I was building engines, I had a 5 gallon pail of carburetor cleaner and I'm wondering if that stuff would do any good.  It sure removed all the crud from a carburetor; while the race engines never got all that dirty, I did do other stuff besides, and I saw the carb cleaner work miracles.

    Bill Glaze
    P.S. Buff:  See you at Myrtle Beach!


    Buff Miller wrote:

      Hi Steve,


      You're not too late.  I had the pipe in the PP for 24 hours with no ill effects.  It did clean some carbon, as seen by chunks of carbon being flushed out.  But did it clean it thoroughly?  I guess the engine will tell me next time out.  Or, though I'm not quite ready for this; perform an autopsy on the pipe.


      Buff



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      From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Steve Wiggin
      Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:41 AM
      To: discussion at nsrca.org
      Subject: Pipe Life Questions


      Be careful with the Purple Power on aluminum. If it's the same stuff I'm thinking of, made by Castrol, I used some to clean my motorcycle wheel and it pitted the aluminum rim! Hope this message is not too late.


      Steve
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