Is titanium polishable?

are you sure it's stainless? cos it's supposed to be a full Ti system plus it's gone coloured from the heat (the way titanium does). i know you can get stainless akrapovic systems with the ti or carbon cans, but there's also a full ti option.

anyways...so if it is titanium, will i have to spend hours on it to keep it looking like the pipes in lissa's pic? i.e. just "clean" looking!

[Lissa]

It doesn't really take much to keep the system looking clean. A wipe down with WD40 after a ride takes 5 mins, and an occasional polish up with solvol or Belgom Alu does the rest

Originally Posted by teriyakimonkey

Can titanium exhausts be polished to a shine? I'm asking because there are currently two cans listed on ebay as coloured titanium but where it is silver in colour they shine just like stainless. I have a titanium can and I'm sure blue flame told me it couldn't be polished but to clean it with a volatile substance like petrol. I actually had a bit of a ding dong with a fella on ebay over it. If I am right then these people afre mis-selling stuff.

Will someone put me straight?

yes!

[northwind]

Titanium work and heat hardens, doesn't it? Certainly a ****er to grind, anyway... Cuts easy as long as you keep it going but once you stop, starting again's a bit harder. That'd make it harder to polish I reckon.

I just scrape the burned-on rubish off mine with a scotchbrite pad, I reckon the dull grey finish is nicer than a shiny stainless one... But if I let the oil and salt burn on it looks rusted, and nobody believes it's titanium

i used to polish my TI can with no probs but you wont get a s/steel look from a brushed TI finish.