Nice Looking Exhaust?

[MARZ]

Quote: DaV8or

Mike,

Looks great. Did you take the tailpipe off to do it and how often do you need to repolish?

[jetdriven]

Is that straight 1000 grit or did you do anything to it after that? I saw a youtube video where they used "stainless" 0000 steel wool on a motorcycle pipe.

 

[MARZ]

straight 1000 grit wet or dry paper.

Glued it on the sander disk and went to town, did it dry.  I did give a thought to try some gun bluing on it to give it a black chrome look but opted for the bright and shiny.... for now.

[ryoder]

Dredging this thread up. I hit the visible portion of my exhaust with a plastic paint and rust removing disk attached to my drill and it looks a lot nicer. I then polished it with some metal polish and a microfiber wheel. It looked pretty good I need to get some thousand grit as well. I was considering options like spraying with high temp paint or getting it jet hot coated. Is that still considered a non starter?

[RangerJim]

An interesting discussion.  I wonder if any experimental pilots have tried it on a spinner?

[HRM]

For those of us with a bit of time and an air DA sander.... this was done with 1000 grit and about 20 to 30 minutes.

 

That is a damn-good looking tailpipe.

[cliffy]

It's going to boil down to which FAA Inspector sees it and how you can justify it with no official approval, if he asks. Common sense or reason has no bearing on "Official approval". I know of one Inspector that was on a rampage about chromed spinners. NOT polished but chromed. He always asked to see the approved process for a spinner knowing full well there wasn't one. The spinners looked good but weren't legal. Bye Bye they went. Anything you that changes any part from original has to have some approval associated with it. Ho will it be signed off in the log book because it will have to be signed off? It's maintenance. The factories that are doing it have some kind of approval.

Now cleaning with 1000 grit paper can in no way be objected to, I'd fight that one any time.