Topic: rust on the header... converter?

[1974blaze]

just craigslisted a 4-1.  looks good, no holes, but some rust i'd like to get in check.  short of blasting and chroming, does the following sound good?
-steelwool and simplegreen
-spray with rust converter
-sand
-vth high temp paint

[Logan80]

That's exactly what I'd do with it...

[malcolmgb]

first thing I use is a nylon pan scrubber, less harsh than steel wool. Paint would be a last resort to me, pitted chrome with a bike which isn't concours still looks good, gives a ridden bike a certain patina. Pictures of bike/exhaust could help, the exhaust on my 400 was bought in dirty condition but after cleaning was certainly good enough to fit and still looks good.

[1974blaze]

just posted pics under sankei 2100, sorry to start a new thread, it was a new question. 

pipes are cleaning up ok.  i thinnk if i paint the bike i'll paint the pipes, but if i keep it a ll a little rough it's match up nicely.