exhaust manifold polish

macky_6 · Post by **macky_6** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 5:17 pm

Hey all,

What's the best way to polish up a stainless steel manifold? It is off the car, and is a bit discoloured.

Another job for a machine polisher?

BMCC · Post by **BMCC** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:14 pm

Go to halfords and get the stainless steel buffer pack that fits onto a drill. Strap the drill tona work bench and polish away. I did my valve cover this way.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:16 pm

Or autosol metal polish and elbow grease?

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:31 am

autosol and work.

BMCC · Post by **BMCC** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:13 am

Buy this:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165594

Attach to drill and polish away. The trick is to get some heat into the metal so that the compounds do the work for you, so work on small sections at a time. For the tricky bits I used a dremel like device (ALDI's version!) with some polishing wheels and the compounds.

nick_s · Post by **nick_s** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:15 am

Personally,

0000 wire wool and Autobrite 'MetalWorx' (much better than Autosol) for the preliminary polishing
Dremel (or similar) with the buffing wheels, and the aforementioned MetalWorx

Jobs a goodun.

Post by **vanzep** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:45 am

Heatwrap it and you will never have to polish it again

I put my plm tri-y on the car and its very tarnished now

bought some titanium heat wrap but that means taking the mani off to fit it which i cant be arsed doing:roll: wish id put the heatwrap on in the first place

I guess its going to sit in the back of a drawer for a year or two...

macky_6 · Post by **macky_6** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:15 am

No point having a fancy manifold then hiding it under wrap

Was meant to start this ages ago, and it gets fitted next week

Better get stuck in, thanks for the recommendations folks, may go for the old drill + wheels combo

Post by **rob quilter** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:15 am

Autosol and plenty of wrist action. Result I achieved on my Del Sol exhaust, backbox polished, centre section not done:

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:56 am

rob quilter wrote:plenty of wrist action.

Sounds about right!!