Try soaking the header in anti freeze.
How to get oil stains off ceramic headers.
Nickel chrome plated headers.
Once they get oilstained you are done.
But the brillo pads worked great.
Vegetable oil olive oil grease and food oils can burn and stick onto a ceramic pan if the pan is left over heat too long.
Took a little more off but not all.
After header installation and before engine run remove grease and or skin oils from the header tube surface.
Ceramic coated polished ceramic coated headers stainless.
Conventional dish soaps that are unable to cut through grease will fail to eliminate such stains.
Has anybody had any success removing oil stains from coated headers.
These areas are prone to rusting as most coatings are unable to get between the tubes in these areas during the coating.
How do you remove oil stains from coated headers.
Wipe the tubes.
This will void your warranty if they catch ya fastss396man brian.
All the pitstops caused fuel with oil of course to get onto the pipe and burn onto it.
I tried one spot and it was a pita.
This burned oil can transfer onto food items cooked inside the pan ruining your meal.
Pay particular attention to the areas where the tubes are welded to the header flanges and where the tubes come in close proximity to each other.
I have jethot coated headers.
The anti freeze loosened it up nicely and normally you could get the pipe looking good as new.
I tried stronger cleaners such as windex and even carb cleaner.
Stains fingerprints will show when header gets hot.
They don t recommend any cleaner except warm soap and water and this will not remove the stains.
My expensive hooker super comps are ceramic coated and a dripping oil pan has stained them.
We used to do this with our r c cars pipes after a long main event.
I however should have cleaned it off right away cause it got through the coating and now shows many chips underneath.
Wipe down the headers and dry thoroughly then coat the headers with wd 40.
Wipe down tubes with rubbing alcohol and a soft cloth dry thoroughly.