To all of you that have the HMF in a colored option - how well does the color hold up? I like the red for my color scheme on my DS, but wonder if it fades or discolors over time. I'm guessing it does, but want to hear what you guys say about it.

 

I'm not sure I can accurately answer your question since I've only had my HMF (Yellow) on since early August 2004. So far, it hasn’t discolored, but who knows after another year or two?

I like the performance of the product, in addition to the 4lb weight loss.

 

I,ve hear of a few of the red one's turning after a couple of years. Not bad just a little fade. I have run the brushed aluminum because it 's easyer to keep clean.

I have something I'm working on for an end cap. I hope to be done by Feb.

My new dyno will be here by the end of Jan so I can do some testing on it. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

I have had the polished aluminum HMF on my DS since last May, and it still looks absolutely brand new. And my son has had a blue powder coated HMF on his YFZ 450 for almost two years now, and the color on his HMF silencer has not changed at all. So I would say so far, so good, for both of those HMFs. I also have a satin aluminum finish HMF on my Prairie 800. I have buried my Prairie 800 in deep mud several times, and on one of those episodes the mud was some kind of acid mud that stained the finish of the aluminum silencer a brown color. I used "Never Dull" aluminum polish on the silencer, and after 20 minutes of hand polishing the silencer looked better than brand new again.

That's probably more information than you needed. Sorry, I got trigger finger on the keyboard. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

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Thanks alot guys, very much appreciated!

 

When I was researching slip ons, the HMF powder coat seems to be very durable. HMF charges like $20-30 to recoat the can if necessary. My graydon proline can did fade but it was anodized, not powder coated.

 

hightower, i thought you were going to go with an endcap and get ur stock exhaust ceramic coated?

 

I don't have a stock exhaust, but I've had several offers from forum members for cheap. but there are no decent sparky endcaps available for the stock pipe which is something I require, and the cost of cobbing together some supertrapp disks on a makeshift endcap combined with the cost of aquiring a stock muffler from somebody ends up being close enough to the cost of an HMF that I can't hardly justify it anymore. It really sucks, that I'm dropping yet another $200 bucks on a pipe on top of the $1100 I've already spent over the past few years for a bunch of pos's, but I've decided to embrace the bright side and just let myself become happy and excited over getting something new to play with and install, its been a while since I turned a wrench on the ever reliable DS.

Since the new HMF's now have sparky's and their packing material is of a type that does not blow fibers like past screened pipes I've owned, as well as the new availablity of the easily removable quiet cores that I carry in case I flunk a dB test, the HMF seems to have almost as much versatility as a disk system so I'm biting the bullet and taking another dive, and if I have an issue with this pipe even remotely close to the past issues I've had with RWR, Graydon, Yoshi, and White Bros. I very well may go off the deep end, snap off postal style, and lay some smack down on some b!tches and hoes like the ***** they are.

But hey I'm being optomistic! I think I may go with the red one, it'll match what I got going on great, and for a $20 recoat I can handle an eventual fade I reckon.

 

I've got the dual HMF Black chrome on my 700 and it looks brand new still. Not even chipped or anything and I ride on a lot of rocks. HMF is the way to go.

 

lol well i can see how ya feel, i hate wasting money, and after all the bad things i hear about my mbrp i just cringe thinking bout the 400ca that i dropped on it in the beginning, i think i might try the disk idea and ust make my own cap and get a buddy to cnc something fancy in it since i'd only be out $25us since i still have my stocker out back in the shed, shes needs a repack bad tho, lol, so if i like it i thought i'd steal your idea and ceramic coat my whole exhaust [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]