im about to take off my dc sport header... it looked like **** before i painted her flat black... and im getting bored w/ it being black and im gonna use aircraft stripper and polish it up!

i would like to get your opinions on polishing it up please. its a ceramic header and prob hard to polish... i love to see before and after pics of things so post em up AND how you did it!!! THANKS

 

ceramic??? have fun....

 

yeah i know right if not im just gonna use heat wrap

 

up

 

for a second i was thinking you are doing a polish on the collector of the header..

 

Can you polish a header? I thought the heat changes the composition of the metal resulting in that rainbow color scheme. Since those colors are in the metal, not on the surface, I dont think you can simply polish them away.

Or maybe Im just completely full of ****. It's hard to tell nowadays.

 

i remember a thread a while back a member got a itr header and it was all rusted and he took some simple green and a brillo pad and after that it looked brand new

 

I used wenol on my ss headers, and all the bronze went away leaving the polished look. It's starting to turn bronze again though... but it did remove all of the water spots, and oxidation.

 

hhuumm kool information, thanks guys and keep up w/ the bumps

 

don't know if you can tell but it was bluish/purple here:



and i wet sanded it with 1000/2000 grit sand paper and used mother's alluminum polish after and it turned out goldish after some fairly hard driving (auto-x's)

 

was that a ceramic coated dc? do they rust after you take off the coating and get it wet?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by iRIDEdumped &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">was that a ceramic coated dc? do they rust after you take off the coating and get it wet?</TD></TR></TABLE>

no it was stainless steel to begin with....after some time it gets a bit oxidized but not rusted

 

i noticed that my ceramic dc looks to have some rust spots after rinsing off the degreaser, but i was wondering if i tried to polish it would it turn out like yours?

 

i would suggest using wenol if you want to remove the purplish or goldish colors....

 

Before:



Progess:



After:



But I wouldn't know where to start with a ceramic piece...

 

Looks noice like al\/\/ays brew

 

Then after running for only 5 minutes:



Still some purple on one of the runners even though I installed it very carefully and with rubber gloves

 

^^^ i heard that DW-40 turns it bronze color

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmjeff &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">^^^ i heard that DW-40 turns it bronze color </TD></TR></TABLE>


yes it does.

After installing a buddies header on his eg...we sprayed the header with WD-40 and turned the car on and it baked on nicely to a goldish color.
Still that color after a year of driving

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr.RHTuner &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yes it does.

After installing a buddies header on his eg...we sprayed the header with WD-40 and turned the car on and it baked on nicely to a goldish color.
Still that color after a year of driving </TD></TR></TABLE>

get some pics up

 

 

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Still some purple on one of the runners even though I installed it very carefully and with rubber gloves </TD></TR></TABLE>

if you would have sprayed the header off with non-chlorinated brake parts cleaner it would have gotten rid of all the body oils.

lets see some pics of the WD-40'd headers.

 

I DONT WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS ITS NOT LIKE YOU R POPPIN YOUR HOOD EVERY WHERE YOU??? OR MAYBE ITS ONE OF THOSE BLING THINGS BUT LOOKS GOOD THOUGH

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mattman33 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if you would have sprayed the header off with non-chlorinated brake parts cleaner it would have gotten rid of all the body oils.

lets see some pics of the WD-40'd headers. </TD></TR></TABLE>