Just Cleaned and Polished Tips *PICS*
05-19-2007, 03:34 PM
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Just Cleaned and Polished Tips *PICS*
I woke up this morning and decided to clean my exhaust tips. I used stuff that was just lying around the house - and a few things that I had left over from another project. I didn't even take the mufflers off the car.
The results are night and day! I highly recommend that the cleaning step be done even if you don't have polish or a dremel, since even that makes a HUGE difference in appearance.
Start = Very Dirty
I used a simple kitchen sponge that had a green srubber on it to get the grime off. As you can see, even this makes the tip look 100 times better.
Next I used some 2000 grit sand paper and wet sanded the tip. Total time for the cleaning - 5 minutes. Not a bad result for 5 minutes.
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I used Mother's Mag Polish (bought at a drive through car wash last year) to polish the tip. I put a layer on and wiped it with a paper towel. This yielded OK results. But the layer was too thick, and took forever to get off. So I put on a VERY thin layer and got out the dremel tool with the long adapter. I put on the polishing head and went to work. And WOW, nice and polished. The polishing took about 20 minutes as the head on my dremel is small - which is perfect since there isn't much room to work between the rear bumper and the tip.
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Here is the passenger side before and after
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Teaser: Since my car recently hit 50K miles, I decided to do some upgrades. I put in the ROW M030 suspension, some new 5 spoke rims, wheels, and had Ruf put on a wing and side skirts - but the Ruf front bumper is in route. So no pics for now, until the beast is ready
But the car looks like a completely differet Porsche!
Pics will be coming
The results are night and day! I highly recommend that the cleaning step be done even if you don't have polish or a dremel, since even that makes a HUGE difference in appearance.
Start = Very Dirty
I used a simple kitchen sponge that had a green srubber on it to get the grime off. As you can see, even this makes the tip look 100 times better.
Next I used some 2000 grit sand paper and wet sanded the tip. Total time for the cleaning - 5 minutes. Not a bad result for 5 minutes.
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I used Mother's Mag Polish (bought at a drive through car wash last year) to polish the tip. I put a layer on and wiped it with a paper towel. This yielded OK results. But the layer was too thick, and took forever to get off. So I put on a VERY thin layer and got out the dremel tool with the long adapter. I put on the polishing head and went to work. And WOW, nice and polished. The polishing took about 20 minutes as the head on my dremel is small - which is perfect since there isn't much room to work between the rear bumper and the tip.
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Here is the passenger side before and after
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Teaser: Since my car recently hit 50K miles, I decided to do some upgrades. I put in the ROW M030 suspension, some new 5 spoke rims, wheels, and had Ruf put on a wing and side skirts - but the Ruf front bumper is in route. So no pics for now, until the beast is ready
But the car looks like a completely differet Porsche! Pics will be coming
05-19-2007, 07:34 PM
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The exhause tips look GREAT! 
However, the "teaser" about the ROW M030 suspension, some new 5 spoke wheels, Ruf wing and side skirts and Ruf front bumper really SUCKS! That was NOT nice to tease us like that!
However, the "teaser" about the ROW M030 suspension, some new 5 spoke wheels, Ruf wing and side skirts and Ruf front bumper really SUCKS! That was NOT nice to tease us like that!
