I have had my Busa for a little over 1 month. I have 1790 miles on it. I noticed the other day that one of my Leo Vince SBK carbon fiber exhaust tips is changing color. It looks like someone poured some type of liquid on it, but no matter how hard I scrub it, it will not come off. It looks like a yellow powder type substance. The only thing i can think is possibly when I rinsed it off, the exhaust may have been hot. Please Help.
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Most Stainless Steel pieces on exhaust will yellow with time .
I had a Muzzy 4into1 header and full system and within a month everything but the can was yellow .
Not much you can do about it if that's what your talking about ?
I had a Muzzy 4into1 header and full system and within a month everything but the can was yellow .
Not much you can do about it if that's what your talking about ?
Exactly what I was thinking Blanca! You can't fix the yellowing over time, except not get it so hot.
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I hope you can get all this taken care of. After you pais all that monet the last thing you want to happend is this. Good luck.
Just to give a hard time clean her again.
MikeSomething
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I'd try oven cleaner on the yellowing stainless steel, dunno if I'd try it on carbon fiber.
riccoh
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wet sand, wet sand , wet sand, 1500-2000 grit lightly over it and it, until smooth again then a bit of rubing compound and followed with mguires polish and should look like new again, that hapend to my CF hood and it turn around, but I decided to add leater on 4 coats of clear to avoid doin that again... just dont get overselous and wetsand through the clear... that will mess up our CF weave and you can't recover from that... it's the draw back of CF it will react to heat/cold defrently and chemical will make matters worst.... always clead CF with just water and only when it has cool down
bobber
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I just hope its a cheap exhaust { lot] and not the bike running too lean or a head problem,,,,what color is the inside tip of the exhaust,,,should be ash colored,,,,really light gray or white is too lean,,,black indicates too rich,,,but too rich shouldnt do that,,,Kinda looks like the pipes are getting to hot,,,,my cans did that when I did my solo run after installing a NOS system,,,,I soon put a PC on it to add fuel and it cooled it down,,,,hopefully ,its just a bad set of pipes,,,,,,,,,,
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I'm thinkin'n its heat effected carbon fiber, by the way its down at the hottest end of the can !
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for those who have the gold-ish pipe, I used BlueAway it works great
before, the blue happend when I had an O2 bung welded in.
after crappy cellphone pic
Ditto on this product - It will not get all the discoloration off the chrome but this stuff really works well, better than anything I have ever used at removing the blueing on chromed pipes. (On the discolored metal, probably not on the carbon fiber).
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