Has anyone used metal polish on their header?

I'm thinking about getting some Mother's for my Kami header.

 

How long does it take for the header to get dull? Mine still shines i have had it for 6 months i think.

 

the same thing was happened to my friends muffler(oval magnaflow) it used to b silver and he used polish that he had for his wheels and restored it to original color

 

Again on my Red Mirage I had the header on there from sometime in 2000 to 2005 when I sold it and it never got "dull" persay. It still had that polished stainless steel look to it. Last time I saw it, July of this year, it still had the same look

 

Personally I dont mind either look.

This is my new Mirage with the header installed for about 12 hours




And this is after about 1.5 months

 

The bottom one looks way nicer

 

^ i disagree, i really like it clean. O well, time to bust out the flat black paint.

 

Your lucky on your mirage. On my mirage, it turn that purple color in about a day or so. In a month it looked really bad.

 

My advice... douse the thing in oil and make it uniform blue/purple!

 

 

So I guess the key to avoid this is to use gloves during the install... Then again, uniform burple would look kinda cool/titanium like

 

coat it REALLY thin with oil to give it that mixed blue/purple color... That would be badass.

 

mines looks like Mike's (Mirage4g93)
and i don't mind the look as long its not rust

 

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