Excessive Heat around exhaust pipe

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clskier

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I own a 1996 Yamaha Vmax XT with around 2500 miles. Yeah, I know, I don't use it enough. When we first got the snow I just pulled it out of storage and did about 2 miles at slow speeds to give my 2yo daughter a sample of snowmobiling. So this weekend I give it a good once over to check wear parts and clean the carbs and I notice the body panel next to the exhaust is warped from heat. Everything looked OK as far as no broken heat shields or anything missing. Stuck a camera down the exhaust and did not see anything obvious or rusted away. After cleaning the carbs, the exhaust was definitely "cleaner". I rode over 20 miles yesterday and did not see any further warpage or excessive heating of the body panel.

Anyone have this experience? Any theories on what happened?

Thanks
 
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