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Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: RustBelt on August 10, 2014, 08:26:04 am
Soak it with pb blaster or wd40. The next day you can rinse it with gas.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Alkyzilla on April 01, 2014, 09:33:09 pm
The pipes I had cleaned at the radiator shop were raw metal.  I can't say how that would affect an already plated pipe but the shop should be able to tell you.
  I paid good money to a local shop here in phoenix for a very good triple plate chrome job. I'm still very happy after a couple years.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: FX4Pitrone on April 01, 2014, 03:28:47 pm
If you hot dip a pipe, does it hurt or ruin the finish? Chrome or nickel?
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: ThePowester on April 01, 2014, 12:36:29 pm
seafoam and bb's works great for me!
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Buckeye513 on April 01, 2014, 09:58:40 am
Alkyzilla what did it cost you to have your hpr's plated?
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Mitch Keller on April 01, 2014, 09:56:05 am
A radiator shop can hot tank your pipe just like they do a radiator.. its cheap and it will be squeaky clean.  I learned that from a local Plating shop.  They wouldn't let a dirty used pipe near their chemical tanks.
Exactly, that's what Matt also told me when I was having some pipes replated.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Alkyzilla on April 01, 2014, 08:52:15 am
A radiator shop can hot tank your pipe just like they do a radiator.. its cheap and it will be squeaky clean.  I learned that from a local Plating shop.  They wouldn't let a dirty used pipe near their chemical tanks.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Glamisrider on March 31, 2014, 10:35:36 am
toilet bowl cleaner, takes the rust right off the outside should work just fine on the inside.

Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Q2W on March 31, 2014, 06:19:37 am
try soda blasting.  It will also clean the rust off the outside without damaging the chrome.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: ZillaFreak on March 31, 2014, 04:38:27 am
It can change sound wave. It can make a pipe ID thinner which can change the sound wave. It can make the wall thickness more which can change sound wave. Lot of things can change the way sound moves.
Will it affect performance, maybe, but it will take a decent amount of build up before you notice any effects.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: LT250RWV on March 31, 2014, 12:22:14 am
Yea il give that a try. Does carbon build up effect performance. I know to much would restrict air flow.Would it damping sound waves.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Chuckie25 on March 30, 2014, 11:54:32 pm
Oven cleaner?

Dawn grill cleaner. Talk about some AWESOME stuff. May not be caustic enough though for carbon inside a pipe.

Hmmm.... The first time I had my pipe repaired I soaked it in a gallon bucket of the carb cleaning acid. What about filling it full of that stuff? Plug on end and don't fill it COMPLETELY so you can shake it or put some medium size steel balls in it to clean it as you shake it
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: El Diablo on March 30, 2014, 10:57:04 pm
Oven cleaner?
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: LT250RWV on March 30, 2014, 10:04:36 pm
Pip e is chrome I dont want mess that up
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Skeans1 on March 30, 2014, 09:04:24 pm
Might try some oil eater.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Yoyodyne1 on March 30, 2014, 08:54:03 pm
If its the headpipe section a propane torch on the carbon till it glows after that a flat head screwdriver scraps it away with ease.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Dezsled on March 30, 2014, 04:18:15 pm
You can use muratic acid, I've used it on the outside to clean off rust and inside a oem steel sleeve cyl that had seized and had aluminum transfer. Ate the aluminum right off leaving the bore clean.
Title: Re: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: Chuckie25 on March 30, 2014, 02:06:30 pm
There's a lot of videos of people burning their pipes on YouTube. I wouldn't though. I wonder if brake cleaner would work
Title: whats the best way to get carbon out of pipe.
Post by: LT250RWV on March 30, 2014, 01:58:26 pm
Anyone have any tricks or best way to clean carbon build up out.