Polished Heat Shield???

[chad400ex]

Has anyone done this? Is the heat shield made of aluminum or steel? If it's aluminum, I thought about polishing mine. But if it's steel, I think that chroming it would be cool. Does anyone have pictures of theirs?? Thanks :D

[exriderdude]

that would look pretty sweet:cool:

[Scott]

Check it with a magnet.

[Sparkles]

i polished mine

[YLW400]

Is that your factory cover sparkles? On you motor? Shining like that?

[Moto92]

Sparkles, you polished that?
I tried to polish mine and got no results. How did you do it?
Im not going to pay to have mine chromed, its not that big a deal.
And a tip for you, if you put netting in your nerf bars the work
alot better :blah

[chad400ex]

So, how did you get that thing all polished up?? What did you use to strip the paint?

[Kels300]

I need a new one of those. Mine got taken off since I put my White Bros exhaust on. Where can you get one (I don't want to get one from the dealership):D

So, how did you get that thing all polished up?? What did you use to strip the paint?

Its such a small part that you could strip the paint by hand sanding it in no time. If your a little lazy you could use anyone of the little electric sanders that the home centers have. Just remember that if your going to be polishing it dont use any rougher sandpaper than you need to as you are going to be sanding out all the scratches later.

I dont think it could be much to chrome it either.

[SUPER_DAVE]

Looks good!
So is it aluminum??

[Nausty]

We have polished ours up although you can see the heat waves from when the make it around the holes.

[nakomis0]

Don't they have a liquid that removes the paint? I think they do , that would be the best way.

[Moto92]

best thing for removing paint, go to autozone and get some stuff called aircraft remover its in the paint section

[Hotdog]

Hey sparkles,

is that a stokc header, if so how did you get it to shine. Did you polish it?

:D

[Max400]

I used paint remover on my oil tank then buffed it out. it took about 3 hrs. but I had it out while putting in my oil cooler.........

[DEAL]

Its the stock header.
He used some kind of dremel to polish it.
He drove it for 10 mins and it turned to a blue/shinny copper color , it looks pretty cool though.

[400exRacerX]

Originally posted by Max400
I used paint remover on my oil tank then buffed it out. it took about 3 hrs. but I had it out while putting in my oil cooler.........

Is that the FST cooler??

[-=Skot=-]

the heat shield is metal , polish it up then clear coat it .:)

[hotrodhonda400]

Originally posted by 400exRacerX


Is that the FST cooler?? yeah! not to change the subject but how well does that cooler bring the temps down? and did ya have to do any drilling or tapping the motor (tank looks good!;) )

[chris29]

Here is mine. Its been chromed,:devil

[Max400]

Yes it is, as far as how much cooler it makes the oil I don't know because I didn't have my warp drive dipstick/temp gauge on before I put in the FST cooler. Yesterday I went on a ride with some friends and it was running at 250 degree's and it was almost 90 outside yesterday.
And yes you do have to tap the motor, I will post some pic's..

[Max400]

another

[Max400]

another, has anyone taken the temp. of there motor, or know what temp they are suppose to run at?

[rc3]

For the heat shield I had to use paint remover and a real fine piece of sand paper. And the stock side covers will polish out real nice with some paint remover let soak for about 30 minutes, and the use a fine piece of steal wool. And then polish them up

[rc3]

Heat shield

[rc3]

side cover