I just had my HKS Exhaust installed and it sounds good, and looked good at first. However after a few days the exhaust tips are changing to a gold color which I I don't like at all and I think looks very bad. Does anyone know a way to prevent this from happening?

 

get them chrome dipped. also there's a good chance you'll develop soot stains like me and some other have gotten...the chrome wont stain or discolor

 

they tend to have a goldish hue. I have about 3000 miles on the exhaust and they aren't extremely gold. I've seen worse! The racing beat exhaust turns bronze, literally! Anyway, try using a metal polisher.

 

My RB exhaust even though it had chrome tips turned gold. The heat from the tips is very high.

Buy a can of Eagle One Nvr Dull. Works like a charm.

 

i have the racing beat exhaust n have had the exhaust on for about 3000 miles just when u wash ur car just scrub the tips of the exhaust too..... that should help

 

Nverdull... **** is amazing.

 

nverdull is amazing!

 

Mothers for me works great but you have to keep polishing them every week a pain in the ***!!!!

 

deedubb, did the nverdull work good on your HKS? i heard the maguire's version works well too

 

stainless steel turns a goldish or blueish when hott look at a SS header on a car they turn all sorts of diff colors but i think its looks sexy JMO

 

it worked pretty good...i was about to purchase the meguiars version but it's a couple bucks more....<<<<<<<<cheap ***

 

i tried it...it made the sides of the tips look incredible, but no luck getting the stains off the ends

 

i will try too polish mine tonight..i'll let u know of the outcome..

 

Just an FYI, it appears that most exhausts for the RX-8 have tips that change color. Greddy and Tanabe do as well, in addition to HKS and RB. The only ones that don't appear to change color at all that we've seen is Borla. Not sure why, but we've had a Borla on our car for 8k miles including at least 200 track miles and they're still bright silver.