bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,409 Member For: 11y 24d Gender: Male Location: Cairns Posted 10/03/17 11:55 AM Share Posted 10/03/17 11:55 AM A lad posted a picture of his bike on a Ducati forum I frequent which inspired me to polish the stainless on my exhausts. I only had time to do one muffler, but want to do the other side (obviously) and do the headers. today was really a test to see how far I could get with limited time.(1 and a half hours) I have bought a carbon hugger from the US, and a carbon front guard from the UK, so I wanted to bling up some of the other components in preparation for their arrival. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boganspeed Will do skids for food Silver Donating Members 1,177 Member For: 12y 5m 20d Gender: Male Location: Perth SOR Posted 10/03/17 10:44 PM Share Posted 10/03/17 10:44 PM Nice ! I love stainless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 12y 4m 25d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 11/03/17 02:43 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 02:43 AM what did you do to polish the stainless steel like that? it looks brand new. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,409 Member For: 11y 24d Gender: Male Location: Cairns Posted 11/03/17 03:19 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 03:19 AM sanded a couple of bad areas with 800 then 1000 grit sanding discs on a hand held sander (in first picture) then buffed with a fine fabric polishing wheel and fast-cut wax (blue bar) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 16y 5m 28d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 11/03/17 04:09 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 04:09 AM 1 hour ago, masda74 said: what did you do to polish the stainless steel like that? it looks brand new. Unfortunately it doesn't stay like that for long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,409 Member For: 11y 24d Gender: Male Location: Cairns Posted 11/03/17 04:46 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 04:46 AM one hour to get the headers off hopefully it will go back together a bit quicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 12y 4m 25d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 11/03/17 06:59 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 06:59 AM So how do you make an exhaust last for long with that sort of shiny look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 28,302 Member For: 16y 14d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 11/03/17 07:08 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 07:08 AM Polish it consistently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,409 Member For: 11y 24d Gender: Male Location: Cairns Posted 11/03/17 08:50 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 08:50 AM 1 hour ago, masda74 said: So how do you make an exhaust last for long with that sort of shiny look? I'm about to find out At a guess I would expect the headers to colour up pretty quickly with blue/purple strong at the cylinders and decreasing down the pipe. The mufflers I would expect to hold their shine for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,409 Member For: 11y 24d Gender: Male Location: Cairns Posted 11/03/17 09:42 PM Share Posted 11/03/17 09:42 PM If I only had a spare 39K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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