Ok, I know there are tons of threads on how to clean the exhaust tips... But I figured this was the best place to post this:


My exhaust tips were BLACK on the inside. Heavy coats of carbon. Went out and got some Meguiar's Hot Rims and never dull, and started going to town and found this:


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At first I thought it was just discoloration, but as I cleaned m ore I discovered the inside of the exhaust tips were painted Aero Blue (previous owner I assume). In any case, they didn't use high temp paint and it's baked on pretty good, and badly discolored.


Now it looks way worse than it did when I started. Any suggestions on getting the remainder of the paint off without damaging the tips? I was thinking aircraft remover? The bare metal looks like it's fine underneath the paint...


Thanks!
Brian

 

See if paint remover will do it. If not you can always paint the inside black with high temp like many of us did.

 

I put this on another post, but I don't remember where.
Mine were brown, like a burned metal, I tried several things with no results. My wife suggested the stuff she uses to clean the glass stove top. I did and it worked great. I used a toothbrush to make sure I got into the crevices, then washed it off. They shine like new metal now, and I'll bet they can clean yours too.

 

Thanks for the, er, tips guys. Pun totally not intended It's soaking in some paint stripper now, and I actually have some of the glass top range cleaner kicking around. Wish me luck!

 

Was it "simple green"

 

Use a very light polishing pad on a dremel and some metal polish and it will be history and they will be polished in one step

I have the tips, polish, dremel and garage if your method does not pan out...

 

That would be really great if it isn't too much trouble John... I got the worst of it, but it still needs some work:


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I will call this thread closed...GOOD JOB!!

 

SRTs come painted black from the factory. Funny thing is some owners do not realize this and try to clean them. Oops!

 

Nice job!!!



Yeah, I've liked my OEM SRT tips painted black. They look good and are less maintenance

 

Although you did a good job on them, why would you want to see a black round hole in a shinny square type opening. I like them black myself.


James

 

I like mine painted gun metal gray :

 

I couldn't even paint them in good conscience the way they were. I'm not sure the picture really does any justice of how bad they were. There was years of carbon, then a (bad) paint job, and then years of carbon again so there was a visible texture. It would have looked like I slathered the inside of the tips with concrete, and then painted it :-p
I was pretty surprised to find it though. Everything else on the car is in very good shape.

 

Yeah, no problem, you may need to stop at lowes on the way and grab a few of the very light steel wool type polishing pads for the dremel, I will check if mine have any life left. I know your work schedule is crazy, just shoot me a text...

 

You got me on that one, I was one of the dummies that cleaned them. LOL However, I will remedy that soon.

 

Well, while I was down in TN... I went ahead and hit it with some commercial appliance cleaner. Pretty aggressive stuff made for cleaning cooktops and deep fryers and such. There wasn't anything left after that! With the tips finally clean, I went ahead and painted it black with some high temp paint. That should be much lower maintenance. LZGUrni.jpg

 

Looks nice and clean!