While waiting on the crankshaft I decided to do a little work on the stainless exhaust. I mooched some TIG time from a buddy late last year and fab'ed the pipes from a universal Pypes 2-1/2" kit. For those of you into self-flagellation, here's the process I'm using:
Original weld, also showing the 24-grit 4" grinding wheel I use first:
After grinding with 24-grit wheel:
After grinding with 36-grit disc:
Then I use the burnishing pad:
After using the burnishing pad:
After that I go to a series of 3 green buffing bars (cut, some shine/some cut, and high shine) that I got from Busch Enterprises at the NSRA Nationals last year. Here's the high shine bar...
...and some of the buffs that I use:
The yellow one is for coarse buffing.
Here's a finished joint (the marks are tape marks):
