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Post by nick923 on Apr 10, 2013 22:06:45 GMT -6
After giving the Aurora its first bath since the weather started warming, I have decided this year I want to get my exhaust looking good. To start, I would like to make the tips shiny. Would I need to get new tips or are the stock ones able to be shined up? I checked the stickies but did not see anything about exhaust tips. This is basically what they both look like, I obviously just wanted to get a close up and getting a close up of both would be hard to do.  What can I do to make them look new? |
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Post by renaldo0613 on Apr 10, 2013 23:45:28 GMT -6
"BlueMagic 400 Metal Polish Cream" on amazon. Another member used this and had success.
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Post by renaldo0613 on Apr 10, 2013 23:47:57 GMT -6
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Post by lkraft92 on Apr 11, 2013 0:22:39 GMT -6
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Post by electrostatictommy on Apr 11, 2013 8:25:55 GMT -6
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Post by RCA1186 on Apr 11, 2013 11:28:42 GMT -6
I used a rust removal tool that you attach to a power drill to clean all the crap off mine, worked like a charm
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Post by nick923 on Apr 11, 2013 17:39:28 GMT -6
Very nice. Thank you all for the info. Will try and get on that soon. Just got to wait for the weather to warm up again. Mid 70's yesterday to rainy and in the 40's today. Brrr. Whenever I get the tips cleaned I'll post them up.
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Post by electrostatictommy on Apr 11, 2013 18:04:15 GMT -6
Very nice. Thank you all for the info. Will try and get on that soon. Just got to wait for the weather to warm up again. Mid 70's yesterday to rainy and in the 40's today. Brrr. Whenever I get the tips cleaned I'll post them up. Try 24 degrees and 12 inches of snow overnight!   |
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Post by oldwino on Apr 11, 2013 19:43:16 GMT -6
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Post by sall on Apr 25, 2013 15:31:23 GMT -6
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Post by michiganaurora on Apr 25, 2013 15:42:38 GMT -6
How do you get to the top of the tips? do you gotta drop the exhaust or just not do it? I spent about 20 minutes with some steel wool on mine the other day and got next to nowhere lol. Im gonna pick up one of those discs in the next few days and try again, mine are horrible looking. I might just need new ones  oh well, im a try anyway. |
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Post by sall on Apr 25, 2013 16:07:36 GMT -6
There are a couple of hangers you could drop and probably get enough room.
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Post by renaldo0613 on Apr 25, 2013 16:22:06 GMT -6
now were talking my language!! the heck with elbow grease. The drill will take of the that for me |
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Post by RCA1186 on Apr 25, 2013 18:13:46 GMT -6
Yep that's what I used exactly haha, and yes drop the hangers and you have enough space to work
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Post by RCA1186 on May 4, 2013 15:27:01 GMT -6
Re-did mine again. I have to think of something to keep the rust off, right now I just wiped them with WD-40.  Used my old friend haha  |
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Post by Marc on May 4, 2013 15:44:04 GMT -6
Re-did mine again. I have to think of something to keep the rust off, right now I just wiped them with WD-40. Possibility: after a thorough cleaning, maybe a few coats of high temperature bright silver paint. |
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Post by XJSman89 on May 4, 2013 17:25:23 GMT -6
I'm probably going to take the spare tips off of my other pipes and powdercoat them with our ceramic chrome coating. It is good to about 1400 degrees, enough for pipes for sure. It burned off when we tried it on the formula car, but the temps get up to 1800 on that. The exhaust guy wouldn't listen to reason haha. I ended up recoating those in turbo x black, good to 2000.
I'll post results when I do, maybe some people around here would be interested in that if it looks good. And I can get us an ACNA discount haha.
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Post by RCA1186 on May 5, 2013 8:12:52 GMT -6
That'd be awesome off its a quick turn around lol good opportunity to get straights too lo
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Post by sall on May 5, 2013 9:00:19 GMT -6
Hit them with some high temp clear after polishing.
'Chrome' powder coating will never get you a true mirror finish and w/o clear coating will still oxidize because of the heavy metallic load. The clear coat will also knock down the chrome appearance. At least this is my experience.
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Post by XJSman89 on May 5, 2013 18:30:45 GMT -6
Nah it's not a true chrome, more like a polished silver. This is good , professional powder though. It's meant for exhaust, it will need cleaning like everything else but won't lose it's sheen or appearance with temp or anything. We have had plenty of customers with it and it has held up great over the years. My boss has it on his Shelby Cobra and hasn't had any problems. I guess the only way to test is for you all to see if you like it after it has been on my car for a couple months.
Turn around would be out of the box to back in the box and shipped in about a week, usually quicker but that's what we tell customers just in case a big job comes up. We have a UPS hub at work so stuff goes out easy and quick. 35% discount on material and labor to anyone on ACNA which includes burnoff time, sandblasting, coating and cure time. I'll have an exact price once I get mine done. I can do any color too pretty much, although high temp related colors aren't as plentiful. Doesn't have to be chrome.
I'll post pics when I get mine done!
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Post by renaldo0613 on May 6, 2013 9:14:56 GMT -6
For you guys out there that are DIY on exhaust work I hsve some questions. I'm knly using this thread because I didn't wanna start a new thread since its in the same area of my subject. Since I don't have a welding machine, what type of exhaust clamps would you guys recommend when installing new piping??
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Post by scbrewster on May 7, 2013 10:00:13 GMT -6
Reading this reminded me of how bad mine are starting to get!! I have used Mequiars Hot Chrome Rims cleaner on my Chrome wheels and it works absolutely amazing. I never thought about trying it on the exhaust tips.. Going to try it this weekend!
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Post by sall on May 7, 2013 14:50:02 GMT -6
For you guys out there that are DIY on exhaust work I hsve some questions. I'm knly using this thread because I didn't wanna start a new thread since its in the same area of my subject. Since I don't have a welding machine, what type of exhaust clamps would you guys recommend when installing new piping?? Well, depends on what you are connecting together. I like lap band or butt band clamps. Great alternative to welding in those situations. Otherwise a regular slip fit connection a regular exhaust clamp. There is also some nice v band clamps. |
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Post by scbrewster on May 7, 2013 18:00:52 GMT -6
Probably a stupid question but we are of these exhaust tips normally chrome? I looked at mine and they are mighty brown and black but obviously they didn't come that color so I'm assuming they were. So either blue magic or turtle wax? And some serious rust remover?
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Post by Marc on May 7, 2013 18:44:04 GMT -6
The 2002 & '03 have chrome tips. The others are stainless steel.
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Post by Randy T. on May 7, 2013 19:23:06 GMT -6
Some Classics came out stock with tips that were coated or painted black, I have a set of these on my Aurora.
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Post by XJSman89 on May 7, 2013 20:26:13 GMT -6
Yep, mine are painted black stock on both the 96 and 99.
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Post by sall on May 7, 2013 20:37:54 GMT -6
Really? Let's see some pictures. Before I touched mine one would have thought they were painted.
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Post by XJSman89 on May 7, 2013 21:12:42 GMT -6
Yep, you can see chipped paint on the 96 ones and the 99 ones that are on my car now wouldn't polish even with a rotary head on my drill. I'll shoot some pictures tomorrow of the 99 pipes, 96 pipes are at storage with the parts car.
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Post by Randy T. on May 8, 2013 6:29:24 GMT -6
It's definitely a factory coating, I don't remember what year my exhaust came off of, '96-'97, I think, but it has the coating. I will try to get the pictures up faster than xjs, and I will take my time, I don't have enough time to take a pic and post it now. This has been discussed and posted before on this forum if you can find it.
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oh well, im a try anyway.
