i might have alittle rice in me. i never liked the bluing done to exhaust tip but im gonna change my exhaust setup, and im making something custom. i went down a stainless shop got myself some 3" od 304 stainless steel piping.

does anyone know how to blue stainless steel? does heat work? or is it chemically produced?

any help would be great. i search and search but only found the funny tread about the guy whos accord fell in the ditch. and i searched google but i find no clear answer on exactly what im looking for.

here is the type of blueing im talking about. i started wanting to experiment after seeing my friends z with his top secret exhaust i thought it looked good.







thank you in advance for any help given

 

you sure thats a 304 stainless tip? a lot of the time they have titanium tips which is very easy to blue

 

I dunno but they spelled engineering wrong on the tip.

 

the 350z pictures are just to show what im looking for. dont know the material of the tips i know the canister is titanium dont know about the tips themselves

 

basically heat.

 

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ha just caught it

 

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thats awesome!

 

search tempering temperatures, and youll see what temp makes blue.

 

the tips look titanium to me, polished then burned

 

step 1 polish

step 2 heat

step 3 high temp clear coat.

 

Check out the bends right after the muffler.. I've delt with Ti a few times, and it sure looks to be so. Never the less, 304 can blue.