Clean-up Buell Race Muffler?

[WayneEx]

Hi all

Anyone have any tips on cleaning up a Buell race muffler?
Mine is looking a bit dull and dirty (washing makes no difference). Can it be polished? It has a funny coating on that seems to have a matt finish?

Thanks

 

[xtremelow]

Get it ceramic coated[up] I did it to my old chopped Race pipe, $40 well where I went it was $40.

 

[Jobe Zeebuh]

Send it to me. Ill make that ****** shine!

 

[andymnelson]

a) they already ceramic coated. Some better than others. Some actually had a more matte finish to them
b) those heel guards polish up like that because they are all chrome plated from the factory, they just didint finish the last step and polish the chrome. The mufflers are steel, not gonna polish that.

best advice: get some rubbing compound and some polishing compound and some towels and clean it up best you can. If you really want a clean look- have it recoated- as suggested above, it's not expensive. You can choose to do a satin black as pictured, or go with a shiny silver like what you're talking about trying to achieve.

 

[BuellerPilot]

The race muffler is ceramic coated. You can try rubbing compound but most likely it's not going to work. Powder coat doesn't rub out like enamel or lacquer paints. Your next cheap and easy option is to sand imperfections and scratches smooth, rough up the rest of it and hit it with a high temp paint from your auto parts store. Satin/flat paints tend to be easier to get consistent finishes. Make sure to wipe the whole thing down after sanding with a degreaser made for pre-painting (prep-solvant), blow off any dust and hit it with several thin coats giving the paint time to flash over between re-spraying.

Those heel guards that jobe polished and every other stock heel guard on the XB are NOT chrome plated. They are aluminum, and is why jobe got them looking so shiny.

Polishing a stock muffler would be F-ing stupid. IT'S MILD STEEL and though will polish to a high luster, will soon rust in days or even hours.

~Mike....

 

[Red93stang]

fine steel wool and wd-40

 

[BuellerPilot]

fine steel wool and wd-40

That works great on the headers, but on the muffler the end result will be dull marks where he rubbed lol.

~Mike....

 

[03Firebolt9R]

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fine steel wool and wd-40


That works great on the headers, but on the muffler the end result will be dull marks where he rubbed lol.

~Mike....

That is the process I used on my old race muffler. After that I used a metal polish and rag and simply hand buffed it. No dull marks at all, very nice sheen to it.

Here is a before photo:

And one after:

 

[Red93stang]

That works great on the headers, but on the muffler the end result will be dull marks where he rubbed lol.

Looks pretty shiny to me. [up]

 

[BuellerPilot]

Looks good! Note Red93stang he used metal polish. And I'm surprised and GLAD it works!

~Mike...

 

[Red93stang]

Got it Bueller, thats my old bike. I know what he does, I can throw a rock at his house if I was strong enough.