| Author | Message | ||
     Milezero5 |
Since I had the bike apart to check the valves I decided to have the headers ceramic coated. Sent them out to jet-hot, ill get a shot of them on the bike as well.  Also had the stator cover shot with thermal dispersant, it came out all shiny like, hopefully it helps. Ill post a temperature reading from a temp gun to see if it actually works, here is my stator as well at 16k miles, it was working fine when I pulled it out.   Also I was bored and decided to mount this piece of heat sink to the bike on the back plate of the VR. Amazingly it fits in there with a little persuasion.  | ||
| Bobbuell1961 |
Your stator looks a heck of a lot better then the 3 i have removed in a 1/3of the miles! Headers look cool, i little tribute to bikes from the past. where did you come across the heat sink? certainly can't hurt. Bob | ||
| Milezero5 |
got the heat sink at comp usa, it came with a really small fan that I might wire up later on. The blue was to kinda match the britton bike. | ||
| Luisemilio25r |
Did they coated the I insides of the headers? | ||
| Milezero5 |
Pretty sure they did, its not the same color as the outside, but has that new clean sandblasted look to them | ||
| Velocity |
I did the same color 2 years ago and 5600 miles ago. They have held the color great and still look good. Scott | ||
| Hootowl |
Is that VR finned, like the old tuber ones are? | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
did you take a temp reading before getting the thing coated? Looking forward to seeing how the blue headers look on the bike! | ||
| Milezero5 |
No, its the oem vr, but with the heat sink mounted on the other side of the aluminum plate. As soon as I can find a temp. gun ill take some readings. I still have the harness plugged in but voltage stays at 14.1 most of the time, until I get to a light or below 15 then it drops to 12 something. Then right back up to 14 volts. | ||
| Hootowl |
If the back plate doesn't have any components attached to it (the SCRs etc, are physically mounted to a heat sink, which is usually the VR case) putting a heat sink on it will do very little good. If the base IS the heat sink, well...nevermind.  | ||
| Timebandit |
Wow! I know I'm late to the thread, but that has to be the cleanest looking high-mileage stator that I've ever seen! I like your heatsink idea for the vreg. Somewhere in my junk box I have an old PentiumPro heatsink that's got the long spike-type fins. It's even blue, so it would probably look good on the bike. Now I gotta go digging through a box of PC junk to find it... Do you have any pics of your bike after you did those mods??? |
