How To Polish Stainless Exhaust Pipes

Cleaning motorcycle exhaust.

How to polish stainless exhaust pipes. It looks like red surface rust. Here you can see another example of the result of polishing stainless steel exhaust pipes. These are the signs youll be looking for.

Larry I will keep that in mind and beging to look for this acid. Hello there I am currently using the following combination to polish steel some is stainless on an exhaust manifold. Both can be re-chromed and re-buffed to restore to its former shinier state.

Well there are a few signs that will tell you when you really need to polish your exhaust pipes. I picked it up on Craigslist for 250 which seemed like a great price at the. You can put several types of finishes on a stainless steel pipe.

Link to post Share on other sites. Now the stainless steel exhaust pipes on my BMW R1200RT needed polishing too after 5000 km on the odometer. You need to be gentler with chrome pipes which are why the dirt is soaked first before being gently scrubbed with a softer metal and some cleaning agent.

At 2199 it will remain a secret to me. Apply polishing compound to the stainless steel pipe and buff the fine lines out with a buffer grinding disc. Never let the activator stay on long and hit it with a polish to deactivate and polish he says.

Use several clean clothes and brake cleaner to remove everything that you can. If you like to ride your bike all over the year I bet you are gonna realize the exhaust pipes aint so new as they were when you bought the bike. Aluminized pipes such as MAC and Flowmaster or some Bassanis will NOT come out like this but you can clean it up a little by sanding it Here are the pipes as they come from Borla.