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no cats = dirty tips, how to keep clean?

1.5K views 11 replies 9 participants last post by  V8 G8  
#1 ·
So since I've had my headers on for about 8,000 miles I have noticed my tips have gotten pretty stained. I polished the heck out of them prior to install just for the sake of it, but I do let the car warm up regularly during morning starts and they have turned a bronze-ish color. Is it even worth polishing them again or is this going to be a constant issue? Think I may be running a tad rich?

Catless BTW.
 
#2 ·
I have read that there is no way and no product that will help exhaust tips from carboning up/sooting/staining-whatever.

What I have read is that the only thing one can do is every night, after parking the car, to take a damp rag and wipe the tips off. Keeping up with them is the only consensus as to how to prevent the staining.
 
#3 ·
I have some stuff in my tool box that takes it off. I'll get a picture of it this afternoon. It don't prevent it from staining and such, but it does make it easy to remove it.
 
#4 ·
Check into a small silver tub named "NevrDull"

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It does amazing things, but you DO have to keep up with it.

Like smokers who smoke in their house for 25+ years, you get a non-smoker to come over and they are amazed at how "coated" everything is. Your non-cat exhaust system is doing the same, alebit just on the tips of your exhaust system, and the environment.

Try the nevrdull stuff, I have it and it's amazing. But it does also require elbow grease.
 
#5 ·
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works like a champ. Every wash I take it to the tips and after 20K miles my solos look like new. Takes all of 1 minute a tip.
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#9 ·
Love Nev-r-Dull. Use it all the time. Short of getting cats installed you'll just have to keep up with them more.