just wondering what anyone can recommend to clean my termi pipes to get them back to a nice shiny finish? As always every product on the Internet says how great theirs is, but interested to know any tried and tested products that will bring them back upto a quality finish.
Get a man to do it. I use a local metal polishing firm. Fifty quid for a tub of elbow grease and you don't get all mucky.
I got some of the Yoshimura Abrasive Stain Magic off ebay its a bit pricey but did the job on an older bike i had that was used all year. It doesn't go very far either so it could work out expensive.
I have some autosol in the garage, so will give that a try, I remember it being good stuff. Don't really want to spend too much, but they need a clean. Thanks for the replies.
if you are going to take em of to do the job properly or fully might be a better way of putting it, you might just as well give em to a polishers to do as you will never get em as good. but if doing in situ, same as others have said autosol and elbow grease. if using a drill or dremmel be very careful of the metal shaft or the end of the shaft on your buffing wheel...
Don't bother, just send them to camcoat get them ceramic coated and forget about them. Had mine done years ago and they're still as good as the day they were done. Camcoat's Ceramic Exhaust Coatings - Racespec Just about see them in this pic.
Buy a polishing kit from custom fasteners .It has several polishing mops ect ect . Buy a cheap off hand grinder and hours of fun await you and you will have the kit available for all your other polishing 9alloy and stainless bolts to name a few ) The grinder will come in handy for other tasks as well inc drill sharpening .
I have used Yoshimura stain-magic though i plan to go down the ceramic coating route in the future. Performance White Ceramic Coating by Zircotec - an ultra high performance exhaust coating for automotive and motorsport applications
Generic metal polish always brings mine up nicely. On my 600rr I used an abrassive pad in a singular direction to get the crud off the down pipes, then followed up with a metal polish. Better than new.
Bit of a copy/paste from somewhere else of my threads... but Optiglanz is the answer Well my super super Optiglanz arrived and after an early start I had an early finish and tried it out... It's about the 5th time I had the exhaust off this thing now so I'm getting pretty used to it. Although now I've fitted the full seat unit etc it's a little more involved... but still, it ain't brain surgery. I was quite optimistic about the Optiglanz having seen a few videos on youtube and it didn't disappoint. Couple of squirts, quick rub with a green scourer and a wash off with a host pipe.... WOW.. clean as you like. ! Beware though, this stuff is horrific smelling and VERY harsh... I always wear gloves for this sort of stuff and I'm VERY glad I did today that's for sure.. it's not nice at all... But very very effective ! Totally transforms the bikes back end. !
Scottish brite and autosol. To get the full system back to Std shouldn't take more than a few hours. Personally I can't see the point of paying someone to polish them as within a few minutes of the engine running, the front part of the system will go manky again anyway. But once polished they'll be a lot easier to keep clean.
