yellowed headers and side pipes

[Cashburn]

Originally Posted by aa909

wow, this is very helpful. so it sounds like rocks and other road debris chipped the ceramic, I hadn't considered that.

at the end of the day I am going to use this as a weekend cruiser, run some mountain roads here in the San Francisco Bay Area and put ~2K miles a year on the car. I really love the polished look of the stainless steel, but I wonder how quickly the polished pipes would yellow and how often I'd have to polish and clean them to get them back to their original polished finish

thanks

Have not seen the chipping of ceramic here, but it could be the quality of the roads and/or environment. A standard set of pipes in the polished stainless will yellow in about 100 miles with an engine in the 400HP range.