Hi!

I am polishing an Mongoose exhaust to get a nice shine all over. But there are a lot of burned in spots in the tailpipe. I use Belgom to polish it up, but the spots are very hard to get rid of and they stay in. Has anyone a good idea how to solve this?






Also I want to polish up the rest of the exhaust piping. Is it a good idea to sandpaper it first and then to polish it up?

 

Your Belgom is a very mild polish mate.
You need something more aggresive, you could try some "00" fine wire wool or Polished Bliss sell all different metal polishes http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/acata...ts-engine.html

If you give them a call or email them with your pics they will tell you the best course of action.
They are normally pretty good with responding to emails and will help if they can see the problem.

You could also try one of the metal polishing kits off ebay that fit in a basic drill to machine polish it.

 

Nice start Wim

I get some info at work like i said to you,maybe some different paste

We use this stuff,works really well.

 

Thanks Marco, I will bring the exhaust over to you. When will it be ready??

 

You can bring it tomorrow around noon

Just uploaded pics to my phone to show at work

 

Here are some more pictures. I used Scotch Brite for the exhaust pipe and then polished it a bit up. It's fine for me now. Maybe not in concours state, but it will do for me.

 

Looks not bad Wim

Haven't contacted my colleague as for the burned spots ,will do tomorrow

 

looks a lot better

 

As the downpipe came with a big dent into it, I decided to cut it out and weld a new piece in. The dent caused a restricting from the normal 76mm back to 60mm!!









Yes I know, a smaller dent retained because its position was in de curve so was harder to get nice fixed. And it wont restricted the exhaust.

Also had some lambda bosses weld in



So now I can continue with polishing!!

 

bloody hell that looks amazing Wim! 1000 times better that when I removed it from the car and I dont remember that dent!

Regards. Adam.

 

Think the courier has trown with the packages.. It was very good wrapped in by you. No problem, that's the hobby to get it all back in a nice state! Thanks for your comment Adam!

 

Well done Wim,now get your arse back to polishing

p.s. plaatje ontvangen

 

That looks verry verry well,
and your colleague did a good job.

 

Thanks guys!

Today I have sandpapered the downpipe by machine and after that polished it. Again, not concours condition (like Bartjan his exhaust..) but it will do for me. And as you hardly can see the downpipe when its on the car, I think this result will be ok:

 

And finally I had to do the biggest part of all, the middle section. This is what it looked like before starting:







And after sandpapering, polishing, some good old Autosol and a lot (!) of elbow grease the endresult looks like this:






Only thing that remains is painting the brackets nicely black. I am very happy with this endresult, so when all the salt from the roads and bad weather are gone the full system can be put under my car. Cant wait!!

 

See you've been busy Wim

Looks much better then 3 weeks ago,hope the paste helped you mate

Can't wait to see it again

 

you bufty Wim! Top work mateThe rest of your saff must be mint! Is it a show car?

Regards. Adam.

 

Is it under the car yet Wim

 

Hahahaha!! Here you go mate, tell me what you think of it!!

 

Did you bought a new one

It looks absolutely fantastic mate,well worth the job

 

think u should polish ur driveshafts. lol

 

Thats what I also thought when looking at those pics of mine!! I think I will paint them nicely black very soon!

Thanks anyway for your comment!

 

i was joking though lol,, theres some man hours put into getting that exhaust right,
Fair play to you it looks superb..

 

Thanks!

 

Wow top work.... What grade paper did you use to bring the metal back up...?

Cheers

Tiller

 

Great work above, just shows what good old elbow grease can do!