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Cleaning and maintaining headers


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How do you guys go about cleaning and maintaining your shiny down pipes?

I pressure wash them, WD40 on a Brillo and then acf...

Thinking autosol may be better.
 
I wouldn't bother if it was my everyday bike but it's not. So I'd like to keep them looking shiny for as long as possible
 
I pull mine off and sodablast it! Irreverent pic of my seat here next to my exhaust after cleaning.

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Don't get the 2 mixed up or you will end up with a very shiny rear end, but on the plus side your headers won't have any bits hanging off them.
 
My MT has now done 15600 miles and seen 3 winters, its used everyday. I'm using autosol to polish them, its looking OK, but would like to get the awkward bits a bit cleaner. Any easy methods to keep it shiny, I was thinking wet and dry?

Below is photo of my headers taken today, after 15 minutes with Autosol

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