bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 12y 2m 16d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 10/03/17 11:55 AM Share Posted 10/03/17 11:55 AM A lad posted a picture of his bike on a Ducati forum I frequent which inspired me to polish the stainless on my exhausts. I only had time to do one muffler, but want to do the other side (obviously) and do the headers. today was really a test to see how far I could get with limited time.(1 and a half hours) I have bought a carbon hugger from the US, and a carbon front guard from the UK, so I wanted to bling up some of the other components in preparation for their arrival. 3 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boganspeed Will do skids for food Silver Donating Members 1,177 Member For: 13y 7m 12d Gender: Male Location: Perth SOR Posted 10/03/17 10:44 PM Share Posted 10/03/17 10:44 PM Nice ! I love stainless. 1 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 13y 6m 17d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 11/03/17 02:43 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 02:43 AM what did you do to polish the stainless steel like that? it looks brand new. 1 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 12y 2m 16d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 11/03/17 03:19 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 03:19 AM sanded a couple of bad areas with 800 then 1000 grit sanding discs on a hand held sander (in first picture) then buffed with a fine fabric polishing wheel and fast-cut wax (blue bar) Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 7m 20d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 11/03/17 04:09 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 04:09 AM On 11/03/2017 at 2:43 AM, masda74 said: what did you do to polish the stainless steel like that? it looks brand new. Expand Unfortunately it doesn't stay like that for long. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 12y 2m 16d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 11/03/17 04:46 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 04:46 AM one hour to get the headers off hopefully it will go back together a bit quicker Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 13y 6m 17d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 11/03/17 06:59 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 06:59 AM So how do you make an exhaust last for long with that sort of shiny look? Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,556 Member For: 17y 2m 6d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 11/03/17 07:08 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 07:08 AM Polish it consistently Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 12y 2m 16d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 11/03/17 08:50 AM Share Posted 11/03/17 08:50 AM On 11/03/2017 at 6:59 AM, masda74 said: So how do you make an exhaust last for long with that sort of shiny look? Expand I'm about to find out At a guess I would expect the headers to colour up pretty quickly with blue/purple strong at the cylinders and decreasing down the pipe. The mufflers I would expect to hold their shine for a long time. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 12y 2m 16d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 11/03/17 09:42 PM Share Posted 11/03/17 09:42 PM If I only had a spare 39K Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/84870-2-wheel-transport/page/93/#findComment-1634152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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