After seeing a few bikes here and elsewhere with Scotch-Brite'd chrome exhaust and other parts on their bikes I'm starting to like the way it looks, thinking it would be a compliment to the brilliant silver denim color of my Iron, offering less of a sharp contrast between the blacked out look of the bike and my current chrome exhaust.

If you've done this, could you post up some pics of your work, or if you know of any links to pics/discussions of same could you please post them. Thanks.

=8^)

 

Question - Will this cause the exhaust to rust? Not sure if our exhaust/heat shields are stainless or not

 

A good chrome plating process involves three layers...the first layer applied over the base steel is copper, followed by nickle, then lastly chrome. Using Scotch-Brite on the chrome finely scratches/makes the surface satin in appearance. But you could go deeper down to the nickle layer if you wanted too, which has more of a grey color.

Unless you went down to bare steel there would be no problem with rust.

As far as the heat shields, I believe they are chrome plated steel.

=8^)

 

see if you can open this

 

Im currently doing this to the aluminum parts of my bike. from what I have researched it wont rust and I would think the chrome definitely wouldnt. It is really easy to do though, just be careful about having crossed scratch marks. You could tape it off like I did as if you were painting and get nice clean lines. Word of warning though using an exacto knife to cut the tape while on the metal scratched the aluminum on mine really deep, so be careful

 

I will absolutely guarantee that your aluminum won't rust

 

Check out this web page and the video at the end of it. I'm thinkin bout doin it to my bike at some point. Looks great.

http://www.hotbikeweb.com/tech/1008_..._scotch_brite/

 

I’m currently prepping a new stripped tank and fenders for my sporty. When completed, the only painted part on my bike will be the frame. Do a search on this site and you will find many pics of my bike with chrome and aluminum parts have been hit with Scotch-Brite. Once I’ve put it all back together I will post some updated pictures. FYI – No issues with rust to date.

 

So posting here to show you guys a project I just did.. Yes, it's a Vic, but I've enjoyed this forum through ownership of two H-D's so thought I'd share with you guys. I picked up some chrome pipes for this bike at fraction of new, so didn't get a choice in black. What to do? Scotch-brite 'em. So I did. Wasn't a perfect job but so far I'm rather pleased with how it turned out.. Used an electric hand-held grinder and scotch-brite flap wheel, then pads to even it out best I could.

The biggest challenge is keeping the wheel from getting away from you. I actually found it easy with exhaust to vice-mount the grinder and move the part, instead of the wheel in order to make even runs in straight lines throughout the length of the pipe.

Actually if I had it to do again, I'd have gone the method I tested on some old scrap OEM bagger mufflers I got from the local shop for practice. I would have taken a full pad and gone cross-ways (imagine polishing a shoe with a towel or hose) so the brush lines are perpendicular to the exhaust pipes. In my test, I found it easy to keep consistency and easier to get it done in nice straight lines. That would actually be my recommendation.

Anyway, here ya go.. Yes I went to the dark side, but she's a @#$%ton of fun and sounds killer with these pipes. Handles great, runs circles around my previous bikes. For now I'm good, but still a fan of harleys, but thought I'd share here for you guys what's possible.

 

looks great. love the highball!