Originally posted by: Andy Bassham
Hey dude, when I wrapped my pipe, I removed all the heat shielding. It is a royal bitch to get that crap back on there too. For the places the bolts screw in (which are mounted to the pipe itself), I cut a spare piece of the heat shield and stuck it on the pipe, then wrapped on around it with the main stuff to hold it in place. As long as you have a good tight wrap going, its not going to move any. The shield that covers where the pipe splits wasn't too bad, but those clamps were tough to get back on.

Now I have that HMF pipe on there that doesn't use the factory clamps, and its real easy. Almost makes me mad that I went to all that trouble before only to take it off a few months later. The way I did it was to start at the header at the engine and go around good an clamp it. Then wrap it to where it goes to one pipe and cut the wrap. Then start again on the other pipe and go till you overlap the original at the junction. Then just take that same strand as far back as you can go til you run out of stuff. I made it back past the carb on mine.

I swear, that crap was $40 for something real simple, but it did the trick, because I have never had one heat problem since (only had one before, but I wrapped it the next week). Even in the 100 degree weather we have been having, no problems. I also backed the bottom of the gas tank with that foam/reflective aluminum tape and thats all I have done. Never cut any holes in the side panels. It worked, cheap and effective.

Of course, we should have to do this at all with a new quad, but I would rather drop $50 in some cheap fix stuff than take a bath on a trade in for something else.