Picked up this stainless DC 4-1 for free the other day, so I figured I'd polish it before installation. Here are the "before" pics and my progress so far. I'll have more pics up later as I get more done.

BTW, I'm following the procedure detailed by akumaracer in this thread: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=852379

Before:





Here we are so far:





Update:







Update: Installed today, looks like I didn't polish up one of them enough... **** it



I suck


Modified by BrewerHatch at 5:32 PM 12/9/2004

 

Looks good. I did the same to mine a few months ago!

 

 

bling blang, what polish are you using?

 

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I haven't gotten to that part yet, but I'll be using Mother's metal polish

 

 

DC

 

nice progress.

 

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free

 

ummm cool

 

If you use 1500 grit, it'll polish faster.

ebelp, who's in the process of polishing an oem JDM ITR 4-1 header.

 

looks great man

 

BLING BLING DAWG!! Lookin good!

 

Very nice..
But you're wasting your time. After a few days of using them, they'll look like how you received them.

 

nice buy, .. or get rather..

how long did it take you to do that one runner?

and let us know how long it lasts, hehe.
i think it'll go longer than a few days

 

nice pics

 

Blang Blang

 

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But you're wasting your time. After a few days of using them, they'll look like how you received them.</TD></TR></TABLE>


this is what i was wondering.
i know all those marks are more or less burned in from oily hands/tools leaving marks. but if you were to sand the **** out of your header, and repolish it yourself, wouldnt the orgial stains be gone for good?

when i put my header on i was in the middle of my swap so i didnt care and rushed through it getting the header dirty and full of finger prints right before the initial burn in. i don't really care because i scored the header for fifty bucks but if those stains will stay gone for good, i will sand and repolish.

 

son, you're gonna wear the buttons off your camera if you dont stop taking so many damn photos.

 

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Gold I can deal with, but this time the header will be installed with latex gloves and have no purple oily fingerprints

 

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lmao!

 

get it coated

 

Mine turned out great after I did it. I put WD40 on it..about a month later it was a nice gold color.. And its still the same. (well there is one finger print on it from some dumb ****)

 

looks siic, nice job on the first tube

 

you *****.... just wrap it...so you can hide the dc emblem