Best products to clean an exhaust

[350zStephen]

My Nismo exhaust is getting removed on Wednesday. I am wondering what is the best products to use to get the exhaust gleaming as the mid-pipe and exhaust tips have lost its shine.

 

Many thanks

[UNABASHED]

lots of wet and dry paper, a LOT of elbow grease and a metal polish of some kind - I used megs metal polisher and it worked an absolute treat

[mattbowey]

i used autoglym metal polish, was good but i didnt use wet and dry and a lot of elbow grease so came up shiney but not insanely shiney

[Ian]

Autosol

[introspect]

Autosol

 

+1

[Wasso]

Autosol

 

Autosol for me too.... great stuff!

[DoogyRev]

Autosol for me as well

[Husky]

elbow grease

 

 

this is how the exhaust started its life, bought off of lee, a UK with damage and not cared for.

 

 

 

then i set about polishing it, ive listed the grades used.

 

rough

 

medium

 

400

 

600

 

800

 

1200

 

1500

 

megs metal polish

 

 

 

 

then for fitting it took bloody ages the original bolts rounded off and needed ground off. one of the studs broke free from its weld the hangers were all wrong and all needed re aligned. getting the exhaust on and off the hangers was a pain in the arse anyway. all in i think it went back off and on about 10 times

 

 

 

heres a bundle of pictures with it fitted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thats your lot

[350zStephen]

That is some job Husky, I better book a day off work.

 

I already have Autoglym metal polish, so i'll give it a bash with that.

 

I'll also post up some before and afters.

[Biggy]

#00 grade wire wool and megs metal polish or autosol.

 

Example:

 

http://shop.autobritedirect.co.uk/steel ... 2050-p.asp

 

I know Tim@Envy will be able to get hold of this

[captain]

That is some job Husky, I better book a day off work.

 

I already have Autoglym metal polish, so i'll give it a bash with that.

 

I'll also post up some before and afters.

 

You will deffo need a pack of sandpaper as well. It's only £5.

 

I used Meguiars and Autosol and found Meguiars better.

 

I followed Husky's thread for my JDM and K1 exhausts and couldn't have done it without the paper.

[Dblock]

I have heard the best is britemax twins?

[ATTAK Z]

Don't forget the brillo pad

[glrnet]

Very impressed with that Husky Might have to give that a go

[Will370z]

Wow that looks amazing, excellent work. Nice job.

[Shuck]

right, back to basics for me. When you say that you polished it did you use the various grades of sandpaper with the megs polish/autosol or did you just save the megs polish/autosol till the last step?

 

At the moment mine has loads of soot on the inside of the tips, whats the best solution to get rid of that? I normally use an old alloy wheel cleaner and some megs gold class but that doesn't get rid of the ground in stuff.

[Husky]

wire wool is a nice simple way to give it a gentle clean followed by megs metal polish. that will get rid of some of your soot etc and give it a shine.

 

if its bad then you can take it back a bit and work through the grades as i did. the condition of it dictates what grade you start at, the worse it is the lower the grade you go for.

 

your matel polish is the last thing you do, it has very fine polishing bits in it to take the finest scratches out, it also has some form of caoting in it to make the shine last longer.