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Buellshyter
| Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 08:09 pm: |
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My header has lost it's gold finish. It's become like a dark grey. Anyone know if this can be polished back to the original? Would this be considered warranty work? |
Two_buells
| Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 08:52 pm: |
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Mother's Aluminum polish and a buffer will bring it back to new looking. Your pipe is stainless steel |
Dana P.
| Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 09:45 pm: |
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Eagle One and apply with paper towel then buff with terry cloth.Repeat if necessary |
Buellish0
| Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 11:26 pm: |
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two words JETT-HOTT youll never polish again |
Lpd22
| Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 12:35 pm: |
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Jet-hot all the way. |
Makenzie71
| Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 12:39 pm: |
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Jet hot. Itll last forever just about. Another option would be to remove them, sand them down, get a high-temp enamel primer, and then a high-temp paint and coat them. I would want pipes that match the bike. |
Scitz
| Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 02:12 pm: |
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I'm getting mine ceramic coated black inside and out and it's only $150. Well worth it, also keeps the heat down. It's going to be a pain to swap it out though. |
Lonexb
| Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 03:59 pm: |
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Scitz not as bad as you think.took me about 6 hours. now that i have done it once, i could most likely do it quicker. lonexb |
Scitz
| Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 01:49 pm: |
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I guess just reading through the manual it seems like a lot of work. It’s just going to be hard for me to be patient and take my time to do it right. The header on the bike now has a dent from when the previous owner dropped it. I used header wrap and wrapped it while it was on the bike. The wrap looks really cool and I like the appearance of it. If you don’t want to polish the header you may look into wrapping it. |
Metalstorm
| Posted on Saturday, August 13, 2005 - 06:52 am: |
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I can vouch for Dana's method. It works extremely, unbelievably well on stainless steel. After one try, I came to the conclusion that I'll never use anything else on my headers. |
Cwby8383
| Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 08:08 pm: |
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jett-hot quoted me 150 for the headers in silver. thinking about saving up for that and the stainless drummer this winter. |