so I wrapped my ypipe with header wrap yesterday and I already know that its normal for it to smoke up and smell bad for awhile but god damn it stinks Anyways how long will this stench last? right now it stopped smoking up when I drive but I still get the smell which isnt too nice. Im going to use the rest of the wrap to do my b-pipe tommorow so here comes more smell

 

smells bad?? mine smelled so good and it made me hungry.

the smell last for 2 weeks on my car.

 

seriously 2 weeks? woa. anyways it smells like a bad BBQ, almost like you ran over a dog and got stuck on the exhaust baking into a crisp.....:

 

Mine continues to smell to this day and its been 2months. Anytime it rains and it gets the wrap wet and then it starts heating that, it smells like cookies again.

Dixit

 

Mmmmmmm...... cookies.

Dixit, so your wrap doesn't stink anymore?

 

Yeah it will carry a pretty strong odor the 1st week. After a few weeks you dont notice it much though.

 

It doesnt stink as bad but it still has a faint cookies smell when it rains.

Dixit

 

so will the smell ever completely go away?

 

i'm going to say probably not. there will always be a slight scent to it.

just a side note..u are aware that header wrap will promote rusting on the pipes right?

 

yup....it smelled like fresh bread. When my ypipe was sjust installed, it smelled like something else....because the antisieze was burning off.


have you checked your ypipe and make sure there is no dead aniaml on it??

 

rust on stainless steel Ypipe? I know it will probably rust out my stock bpipe but by the time that happends then Ill probably have an aftermarket one anyways.

 

how far down did you wrap the exhaust Lawrence??

because every time it gets wet its gonna smell like booty... so maybe wrap only the upper portions of the exhaust??

if you dont like the burning smell

 

I used DEI Exhaust Wrap. That stuff actually smells like slightly burned sugar to me. Smells actually pretty good, IMO. heheh. I wrapped my Y, but only like 1/5th of my B pipe (cuz 50ft of wrap does not go very far)...

 

 

It holds in water.

 

but on stainless steel?

Malik - I only did the ypipe as of now but I was thinking of doing the rest of the catback since im not worried about rusting the stock bpipe and I got like 30 more feet of wrap left. I used the brand cool-tec or something like that

 

It smells like pho to me......

 

everything smells like pho to you, pho boi

 

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...PHO!!!!

 

mmmmmmmm x 2




da baum

 

 

Which company's wrap did you use??

I was also thinking of wrapping too but someone mentioned in the winter time, salt powder might work its way into the wrap around the lowere portion of the y-pipe & b-pipe.

So we got smells ranging from booty, pho, cookies to bread??

 

I used Cool-tec brand. anyways its been smelling like firewood and toast lately