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Old Sep 21, 2004 | 11:27 AM
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Cleaning inside of headers???

Im selling mine and i was just wanting to clean them up on the inside as well before i mailed them off. Just curious if you guys had any ideas on how to do it.

I was thinking about taking them to the local self-serve car wash and powerwashing the inside of them. What do ya think?
Old Sep 21, 2004 | 12:47 PM
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Re: Cleaning inside of headers???

Eagle 1 mag cleaner, or similar professional wire wheel cleaner.. simple green?
Old Sep 21, 2004 | 02:38 PM
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not a bad idea, hell ill just buy alot of random cleaners
Old Sep 21, 2004 | 02:46 PM
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Re: Cleaning inside of headers???

Eagle 1 mag cleaner might work..
But if not you might want to try a professional wire wheel cleaner.. But then I thought oil depsoits.. maybe a soak in some simple green.. If you have a car you proabably have these laying around..
Old Sep 21, 2004 | 02:46 PM
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Re: Cleaning inside of headers???

While you're conducting your experiment please let us know what works best...LOL
Old Sep 21, 2004 | 03:24 PM
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Re: Cleaning inside of headers???

CArb cleaner?

frankly I think it would be best just to leave them on teh car and put water in the intake, then by the time it made it to the headers it would be pressurized and super heated kind of like a steam clean.
Old Sep 21, 2004 | 03:26 PM
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Re: Cleaning inside of headers???

Hydrolock is extremely destructive
Old Sep 21, 2004 | 04:33 PM
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Re: Cleaning inside of headers???

Originally Posted by RealZ28
Hydrolock is extremely destructive
Its just an LT1 they are cheap these days

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