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THANK YOU FOR SEARCHING!! :D
oh, and good tips. |
I used Brasso metal polish and it cleaned the chrome up easily.
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Goof Off works great! Great for flame throwing too (I'm kidding!)
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wait... clean the insides of the pipes as well?
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I find that when I wash my car, I take a sponge and clean the tips with that and the car wash soap... then I use chrome polisher to get them nice and shiny...
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Originally posted by jdl Two words: Never-Dull. |
Gee, now I just use a little WD40 and a paper towel when I wash them about every 2 weeks.
Of course the first time I tried to clean the smoot of I did use an 1800 PSI pressure washer on them which didn't do anything. |
Never dull is the best. I dont care how much biuld up you have it works great. I use it on all my cars that have anything chrome.
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Originally posted by RX4+30Years=RX8 Gee, now I just use a little WD40 and a paper towel when I wash them about every 2 weeks. Of course the first time I tried to clean the smoot of I did use an 1800 PSI pressure washer on them which didn't do anything. |
I'll add my name to the list of endorsements for Nevr-Dull. Used it for the first time last night and the smoot came off in seconds.
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Blue Magic Liquid Polish :cool: I finally bought something to clean the exhaust tips today. The rest of the car is filthy but I couldn't resist trying this out and they look GREAT! Just a clean cloths and the polish was all it took.
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Lately, I just wash the exhaust tips with soap and water at the same time I do the tires and wheels. Smoot comes right off. Then, after I finish washing/drying the whole car, I go back to the exhaust tips and polish with Mothers Chrome Polish. Works great.
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Good to see the term "smoot" is still alive and well. :) It was a typo (by Shiv Pathek, I think) on the RX-7 "big list" several years ago that gave birth to the word.
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Hi Max. I'm the one guilty of bringing it over :) . I thought it originated on the Team FC3S list about 7 years ago (Dale, help me out here!).
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Gee guys, I have heard smoot used as far back as 30 years ago to describe the smudgy soot that built up on the exhaust tips of my RX-4. I think it was a Mazda mechanic that I heard it from first back then.
As I remember it, the tip was rectangular and it only built up on one half of it. The other half was where the secondary exhaust from the thermalreactor came from. Or maybe it was the opposite, but I remember there were two exhaust pipes, one smaller than the other and one did not carry as much smoot. Both exited via the rectangular tip. |
Smoot in the fire place since i was born
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Originally posted by EatMyBanana Smoot in the fire place since i was born |
or, this definition traces back to 1958:
smoot /smoot/ n. [MIT] A unit of length equal five feet seven inches. The length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is famously 364.4 smoots plus or minus an ear (the ear stands for epsilon). This legend began with a fraternity prank in 1958 during which the body length of Oliver Smoot (class of '62) was actually used to measure out that distance. It is commemorated by smoot marks that MIT students repaint every few years; the tradition even survived the demolition and rebuilding of the bridge in the late 1980s. The Boston police have been known to use smoot markers to indicate accident locations on the bridge. |
That is a lot of smoot!
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Born in 1958!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by EatMyBanana Born in 1958!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
loco4rx8, I used the Mother's chrome polish once. The Borla is not chrome (it is stainless steel) so I noticed the Mother's polish looked a little cloudy. I then tried the Eagle-One-Never-Dull and it is incredible. I still have the bottle of Mother's but will not use it again. Try the Eagle-One and you will not go back to Mother's IMO.
I still get bad exhaust smoot even though I have the M flash, an intake, Borla exhaust and CZ stage 1. It is just a natural side effect of the rotary engine. |
Thanks SMigneco. I'll be sure to try the Never Dull. I know the Borla isn't chrome, but I had the Mothers on hand, and it does a reasonably good job, so.... But I'm always looking for an improvement. :)
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