After work I started prepping my car for Rotorfest on Sunday. I was hoping to wash it and polish the chrome exhaust tips on my MindTrain Big Throats muffler...heheh. Well it was easier said than done. I tried two of the best chrome polishes that I know of Simonize and Mothers. Now I'm not afraid of some elbow grease, but, the corrosion and discoloring was not going away. I spent an hour and barely made a dent.
Off to rx7club.com to see if anybody had any advice. There wasn't too much so I tried Google. After about 15 minutes I found a link that mentioned steel wool or brillo pads. I thought this was a bit drastic. I decided to try it anyway. So I started on one of the less visible parts under tip. I put some Simonize on the 0000 steel wool and bingo! It worked! After doing most of the tips I noticed that the finished parts were a little hazy. After finishing the rest I hit it all again with Mothers and that seemed to bring out the shine a bit. I'll have to look at it in better light.
So there you go, if you have some nasty corrosion on chrome reach for the 0000 steel wool and some polish :-) I couldn't go to Rotofest with my mindtrain exhaust looking like crap now could I?