Stainless Mufflers

[flathead]

Hello all.

I've got my old 63 dream (wiring harness date) up for sale an FeeBay right now ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... OTORS:1123 )and hope someone can shed some light on a question. Were the CA mufflers ever produced in stainless steel. The reason I ask is, I have inspect the mufflers on this old bike and while they are scraped and have a few dents here and there, they are about as sound as any I have ever seen. I've owned NOS steel mufflers the have been hung in the shed and nearly rusted thru. The surface of these look to be polished stainless, however they are magnetic. Does anyone know if the stainless Honda used in the early days was a magnetic grade? I'm not trying to make a selling point, I'm just curious.


Thanks,
Mark

[jensen]

Hi,

The early "stainless steel" mufflers are indeed a little magnetic but there's a lot of difference in magnetic strength compared with the steel versions (check it out)

I know that early C77 / C72 mufflers where stainless (as did the early CB72 / CB77), but I do not know if the CA72 / CA77 had stainless mufflers.

I see on the pics (ebay) that the dream you are selling has a tubeler steer, the chances are low that if these are stainless mufflers, these where original on the bike. The stainless mufflers where on the plate steer dreams.

However, there are a lot of quallity differences in the chrome thru the years, also the quality of the mufflers differ a lot.

With the stainless mufflers I have, both for C77 and CB72, the mufflers are much lighter than the plain steel ones, the stainless mufflers also are prone to damaging and or craking becuase of the material thickness and other material specs.

I also have a stainless muffler from a CB72 with a lot of thiny holes in it, corrosion from the inside due to the acid in the fumes, the outside is clean and nice (no rust), and I'm sure it's a stainless muffler.

Jensen
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