How To Get Oil Stains Off Ceramic Headers

After header installation and before engine run remove grease and or skin oils from the header tube surface.

How to get oil stains off ceramic headers. How do you remove oil stains from coated headers. Conventional dish soaps that are unable to cut through grease will fail to eliminate such stains. Stains fingerprints will show when header gets hot. I tried one spot and it was a pita.

Vegetable oil olive oil grease and food oils can burn and stick onto a ceramic pan if the pan is left over heat too long. Once they get oilstained you are done. Wipe down tubes with rubbing alcohol and a soft cloth dry thoroughly. I however should have cleaned it off right away cause it got through the coating and now shows many chips underneath.

Wipe the tubes. Has anybody had any success removing oil stains from coated headers. But the brillo pads worked great. We used to do this with our r c cars pipes after a long main event.

I used some of those brillo pads that are basically steel wool with soap embeded in it. Worked great on my coated headers with years of dried oil on them. My expensive hooker super comps are ceramic coated and a dripping oil pan has stained them. Wipe down the headers and dry thoroughly then coat the headers with wd 40.

Ceramic coated polished ceramic coated headers stainless. These areas are prone to rusting as most coatings are unable to get between the tubes in these areas during the coating. Nickel chrome plated headers. Try soaking the header in anti freeze.

I tried stronger cleaners such as windex and even carb cleaner. All the pitstops caused fuel with oil of course to get onto the pipe and burn onto it. Never tried it on normal oil though. I have jethot coated headers.

The anti freeze loosened it up nicely and normally you could get the pipe looking good as new. This will void your warranty if they catch ya fastss396man brian. Took a little more off but not all.