DIY: Changing Headers
Darren exchanged his headers for black coated without rolling the motor. He's written this up on a couple of forums and kindly offered to let us post his write-up:
Well I got some black HPC headers from SRWmoto a little while back got a few quotes to put them on and wasn't keen on the price. At the same time I wasn't keen on rolling the engine either seemed like a little too much effort. I found a brief post on Badweb that mentioned it could be possible to do it by removing the cooling fan and rear shock. Gave it a go and was able to do it with only minimal screwing around. basically
-Put the bike up on front and rear stands.
-Removed the seat
-Tail fairing
-Airbox cover and assembly
-Then placed a Sawing horse under the tail section of the bike.
-Removed the bolts retaining the rear shock and let the tail sit on the sawing horse with a few blocks of wood. I didn't take the shock completely out just moved it further down into the bike.
-Unscrewed the cooling fan moved it out to the side that gave me access to the rear header.
Next Step
-Disconnect the wire to the Oxygen Sensor
-Removed the Oxygen sensor with a 22mm open ended spanner had to have my mate move the rear shock so I could get the spanner on it.
-Next I made sure I could get to the hidden elusive bolt which requires the engine roll and with a quarter drive 1/2 inch socket no worries!. I actually found that the best way to do it was to come up form underneath the frame with the Universal Joint and the long extension in my 1/4 drive socket set. next i continued to crack all of the other header bolts.
-Now that I decided I was winning I removed my right air duct and the chin fairing.
-I undid the rear axle just enough to put some slack on the belt.
-Removed the tensioner.
-Now removed the Fasteners on the muffler clamps and the header clamp then removed the muffler.
-I removed the header bolts.
-Now was time to remove the headers. I had to sort of work them out a bit but eventually they kind of popped out after jiggling them for about 3 minutes or so.
-I removed the clamping rings then the exhaust clamps
The Return leg
-I put some masking tape around the V in the middle of the headers so the exhaust clamp wouldn't damage the coating.
-Placed the Clamps on then the clamping rings on the new headers.
-Now I tried to get the headers back on and it was being a real bitch ended up it was catching a tiny bit on a cooling fin on the rear cylinder i realise I must have flexed the fin slightly when i removed the initial headers.
-Basically I had to file about 1 or 2 mm little divot in the cooling fin then the headers slipped in now worries. the amount I had to take out of the cooling fin was very inconsequential and I am sure will have no effect on the engine.
-Now with the headers back in place I moved the clamps into position used the 1/4 inch drive socket set and universal joint again to put the header bolts back on, then proceeded to tighten them all a little at a time so they did up evenly.
-Now it was time to start putting the bike back together so I pretty much just reversed my steps from above.
I have taken a few photos with my phone but I am pretty sure they wont be very helpful but I will attach them anyways. So I hope this possibly helps a few of you guys out if you were thinking about it.

