# Polish Pipes **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [September 20, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/polish-pipes/2542 "2005-09-20T10:36:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Tkklemann](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tkklemann/32/7298_2.png) [@Tkklemann](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tkklemann)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/polish-pipes/2542/10 "2005-09-23T06:50:23Z")
Actually, aluminum tarnishes white when it oxidizes. Aluminum, once it is polished, you can either hit it with some mothers cream polish and a soft rag, like I do, or go the low maintenance route and buy some zoop seal after it has been polished, and never worry about it again. Heat wouldn’t be affected. I can’t see how a fully polished pipe will make any appreciable differrence in heat/efficiency etc… I have some more polishing to do this weekend, and I might get bored enough to polish the actual intercooler end tanks. I dunno, we will see… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/polish-pipes/2542)._