Exhaust cleaning

[Indorider]

So last week I decided to clean up my exhaust since the previous owner seemed to have spent a lot of time riding through trash piles and melting plastic onto the pipe (or it could've been riding pants as Husky's are famous for melting them). The canister was looking pretty ugly as well from the crash he had that broke his collarbone and allowed me to buy the bike. I decided to paint it with some good high temp paint I bought for another bike.
It looked like this

The canister scratches are pretty clear while the burnt plastic doesn't show up well.
Anyway, I started with my dremel and a brass wire wheel to get off the small chunks, then went to some 800 grit wet/dry paper (600 would've been faster) and finished up with some 1000 grit and some metal polish.

It's off the bike. As you can see I've already painted the canister but had a bit of a crash in the woods and scratched her up again so I decided to spruce it up before my next ride(crash).
I'd read in another post about excess material left over from welding in the header so I thought I'd check that out and sure enough there was plenty. This pic is after grinding away about half of it.

I went through two small sanding wheeels with my dremel getting it flush and smooth (the way it should have come from the factory). Some 800 grit wet/dry paper finished it and then I flushed out the pipe of all debris.

The header was shiny silver colored for about 5 minutes and then turned to this nice gold color after tearing up the road and back.

I think the canister looks pretty nice in satin black.

 

[ghte]

I agree it looks very smart amd purposful. Good job

 

[Freaky]

Good work, looks good in black. I generally use wire wool to clean up the header, my silencer has plenty of plastic melted boot residue on it which is proving tricky to remove.