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Interesting article I was reading earlier today on exhaust systems/materials... Kind of fits in with this discussion:
http://www.epi-eng.com/piston_engine_technology/exhaust_system_technolo…
The Shop
So basically, it looks like they took a standard titanium-2 silencer and replaced the aluminum body with a titanium one. In other words, the only part not titanium on that muffler is likely the steel perforated core.
ti welds look like molten silver
it can have color around it, in the HAZ (heat affected zone). and on something not structurally critical like that, they probably used a small lens to get a lot of color in there for cosmetic reasons. still is an amazing weld.
you can also color Ti via electricity anodizing like i did on these wheel spacers i made:
http://transfer.fleeangrybear.com/KX500AF/TiAnoVert.jpg
or with heat from a mapp gas torch like a lot of knifemakers do.
also reason those welds in the first picture are so discolored because they are not welds, those pipes are brazed with no sheilding gas on the actual weld. and thus pull a lot of oxygen in and oxidize/discolor the metal.
Hand made....LOL yeah. Normal stampings and then welded together in a jig. Same as production pipes.
Pit Row
Hand made could easily mean they had to manually insert a titanium blank into the press for forming. Not a big deal, but when you are interrupting an automated production run, you have to label it as some sort of special project. "Hand-made" sounds legit...
Blackberry shot of FMF's 199 pound 300cc KTM in the final stages of the build from back in 2009. FMF also utilized Nuetech TUBLISS to help get under the magic 200 pound target. Titanium pipe natch. Titanium silencer natch.
Not sure of thats a full Ti silencer.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/FMFRacing/photos/a.135291306501901.16362.10…
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