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A while back, I asked about Removing Header Pipes so I could do some stuff to my exhaust pipes while my 959 was packed away for the winter. My initial intent was to take off all my exhaust pipes and polish them on my bench, but ended up not completely doing so. Here's my general progression and the results of my exhaust pipe shenanigans.
Reading all sorts of threads from the Panigale forums, I came across the 899 thread: Polish your exhaust please lol - Ducati 899 Panigale Forum I did this on my 959 a couple months ago and was pleased with my results, but still wished I could have gotten a better polish on some of the areas.
Here's the album view of everything below: http://imgur.com/a/am16K
Here's what I started with:
Hit it with a Mothers PowerCone and Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish, about 10 minutes later:
Buffed off the polish, looks decent:
Spent probably another 20 minutes getting into some of the more confined spaces:
Finished result with no camera flash. Probably ~40 minutes total on this section:
With the fairings on and camera flash:
With the fairings on and no camera flash:
I was going to take off the front pipe and have another go at it, but once I got to begin taking off the fan shroud to get to the stud nuts, I quickly felt like the effort was to high for the impact, so I just let it be.
Moving onto the rear cylinder bank exhaust pipe, here's my starting point:
Progress was essentially the same as the front, so not gonna be any photos in between, but this proved to be quite the challenge as there was all sorts of weld splatter that I had to clean up before I could polish it up. Ended up having to sand it down using 200-300-500-1000-2000 grit sandpaper then polishing it with the Mothers polish. Probably should have whipped out some other buffing compounds for this. Spent probably ~8 hours over a span of 2 months working on this.
Final result. Not completely mirror, but good enough for me.
The inconvenient stamped/welded flange on the rear exhaust pipe. DEEP grooves that I could have sanded out, but too much effort. You can see some of the weld splatter that I missed:
My 959 currently is in pieces. I'll be putting it all together in the next months while there's still snow and temps are <40F. As mentioned in the heat thread, I will be leaving off the heat shield to expose my freshly polished pipe and heat has never been an issue for me.
Reading all sorts of threads from the Panigale forums, I came across the 899 thread: Polish your exhaust please lol - Ducati 899 Panigale Forum I did this on my 959 a couple months ago and was pleased with my results, but still wished I could have gotten a better polish on some of the areas.
Here's the album view of everything below: http://imgur.com/a/am16K
Here's what I started with:
Hit it with a Mothers PowerCone and Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish, about 10 minutes later:
Buffed off the polish, looks decent:
Spent probably another 20 minutes getting into some of the more confined spaces:
Finished result with no camera flash. Probably ~40 minutes total on this section:
With the fairings on and camera flash:
With the fairings on and no camera flash:
I was going to take off the front pipe and have another go at it, but once I got to begin taking off the fan shroud to get to the stud nuts, I quickly felt like the effort was to high for the impact, so I just let it be.
Moving onto the rear cylinder bank exhaust pipe, here's my starting point:
Progress was essentially the same as the front, so not gonna be any photos in between, but this proved to be quite the challenge as there was all sorts of weld splatter that I had to clean up before I could polish it up. Ended up having to sand it down using 200-300-500-1000-2000 grit sandpaper then polishing it with the Mothers polish. Probably should have whipped out some other buffing compounds for this. Spent probably ~8 hours over a span of 2 months working on this.
Final result. Not completely mirror, but good enough for me.
The inconvenient stamped/welded flange on the rear exhaust pipe. DEEP grooves that I could have sanded out, but too much effort. You can see some of the weld splatter that I missed:
My 959 currently is in pieces. I'll be putting it all together in the next months while there's still snow and temps are <40F. As mentioned in the heat thread, I will be leaving off the heat shield to expose my freshly polished pipe and heat has never been an issue for me.
