I however should have cleaned it off right away cause it got through the coating and now shows many chips underneath.
How to get oil stains off ceramic headers.
Took a little more off but not all.
This will void your warranty if they catch ya fastss396man brian.
Wipe down the headers and dry thoroughly then coat the headers with wd 40.
How do you remove oil stains from coated headers.
I tried one spot and it was a pita.
I have jethot coated headers.
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.
Nickel chrome plated headers.
But the brillo pads worked great.
These areas are prone to rusting as most coatings are unable to get between the tubes in these areas during the coating.
I tried stronger cleaners such as windex and even carb cleaner.
After header installation and before engine run remove grease and or skin oils from the header tube surface.
I used some of those brillo pads that are basically steel wool with soap embeded in it.
Wipe down tubes with rubbing alcohol and a soft cloth dry thoroughly.
My expensive hooker super comps are ceramic coated and a dripping oil pan has stained them.
Has anybody had any success removing oil stains from coated headers.
Conventional dish soaps that are unable to cut through grease will fail to eliminate such stains.
The anti freeze loosened it up nicely and normally you could get the pipe looking good as new.
Try soaking the header in anti freeze.
Wipe the tubes.
Stains fingerprints will show when header gets hot.
Worked great on my coated headers with years of dried oil on them.
They don t recommend any cleaner except warm soap and water and this will not remove the stains.
We used to do this with our r c cars pipes after a long main event.
Never tried it on normal oil though.
All the pitstops caused fuel with oil of course to get onto the pipe and burn onto it.
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.