anyone know how to clean headers to make shiny again? I want to polish mine up and tips and ideas what to use to make them all shiny again, thanks

 

is your aftermarket or stock?

 

Well take it to a machine shop to get it ceramic coated! eh, most 4 cylinder only use one header *haha* You catch my drift? You could use a wire wheel to clean it off as well as cleaner. But its pretty hard to make it pretty. itll just look dirty again after the engine runs.

Jon

 

I have greddy headers, I heard you maybe could use like 1500 grit sandpaper and then polish it with some polish, there was a recent post about doing this but i can't find it, well thanks

 

You could just sand and paint it with some high temp paint.

 

no i want the chrome shiny look.. he he come on someone has to know how to repolish them.. I just can bare to see them not shiny
help me guys!!
Thanks

 

saw myth busters last night...and cola and aluminum foil seems to work great.

 

sorry to bust your bubble bro... the only way you gonna have a shiny header is if you dont use it... remember that road grid and constant high temp on the headers wont do any good even if you try to keep it polished up....

 

You're better off getting a ceramic header..

Those stainless/chrome headers oxidate real fast....

 

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Those stainless/chrome headers oxidate real fast.... </TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah... then they turn all sorts of "pretty" colors. :barfing smiley face:

 

If you'd done your homework, you'd know that different types of stainles steel, turn different colors.
Mine are really nice and blue where it gets the hottest, and golden more outward.
I polish it every once in a while to keep it shiny.

 

how do you use the cola / aluminum foil to clean them... ? I just want to find out how to clean them, they look so ugly...

Please someone find out for me i know someone has tried cleaning the expenisive headers.. Post please

thanks

 

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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=852379

 

if you do that, make sure you get all of the polish off, other wise that polish will burn if you leave it on the header, i would imagine it would look worse than before.

 

wont it just change color again after you cleaned it?

 

I think it would change back to color again just keep up after it,

to get off all the polish what would you do? wash it ?

 

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Yep, thats why there is really no sense on doing it because its just gonna go back to the old color in a couple of days.