Ceramic Coating
05-11-2002, 06:11 AM
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Ceramic Coating
I've decided to get the headers ceramic coated instead of using header wrap. My question is how much of the headers to you coat. Just the first piece or both?
05-12-2002, 02:53 AM
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Heat is the enemy of any engine specially a turbocharged one... since yours is not T/charged I wouldn;t even recommend coating it with ceramic except for the aesthetically pleasing sight of it.
It won't be much gain at all, but will protect against rust to a certain degree and will always look good. (white type look to it.)
What we do to our headers in S.A is stainless steel coat them with a special mechanical bond which is like spray painting molten stainless steel onto the header which gives it a rough feeling finish to it, but with millions of little shiny specles in it and when light shines on it, it looks pleasing.
For interest sake, we also use this same bond with aluminium C355 T61 alloy to build up heads to lower compression depending on engine and combustion chamber design.
It won't be much gain at all, but will protect against rust to a certain degree and will always look good. (white type look to it.)
What we do to our headers in S.A is stainless steel coat them with a special mechanical bond which is like spray painting molten stainless steel onto the header which gives it a rough feeling finish to it, but with millions of little shiny specles in it and when light shines on it, it looks pleasing.
For interest sake, we also use this same bond with aluminium C355 T61 alloy to build up heads to lower compression depending on engine and combustion chamber design.
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Check out these two sites for info on thermal coatings:
HPCoatings
Jet-Hot
I think Jet-Hot is the best... When I was stationed in NC several years back, had a buddy who coated the headers for a 454 he stuffed into a '56Chevy. Those things looked ****ing awesome, the chrome didn't turn colors with the heat, and you could tell a difference about the heat under the hood.
I'm doing an intake for my Tib and am going to have Jet-Hot coat it for me. The HPCoatings site has some other cool stuff for under the hood, like powder coating, etc.
Check out these two sites for info on thermal coatings:
HPCoatings
Jet-Hot
I think Jet-Hot is the best... When I was stationed in NC several years back, had a buddy who coated the headers for a 454 he stuffed into a '56Chevy. Those things looked ****ing awesome, the chrome didn't turn colors with the heat, and you could tell a difference about the heat under the hood.
I'm doing an intake for my Tib and am going to have Jet-Hot coat it for me. The HPCoatings site has some other cool stuff for under the hood, like powder coating, etc.
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Well, there's a local company that I'm going to go with, but thanks. I'm definately going to get the headers and the intake coated. I think I might get black to look stealth. But I don't know weather I should get the second part of the headers coated too.
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If money were no object, I would say get the whole darn exhaust ceramic coated!
But due to financial and practical considerations, doing the header is the most important part. Yes, I would do BOTH peices.
They can heat coat the outside and "flow coat" the inside.
For most engines, the additional expense of "flow coatng" the internal passages of the header or intake is not be necessary.
But due to financial and practical considerations, doing the header is the most important part. Yes, I would do BOTH peices.
They can heat coat the outside and "flow coat" the inside.
For most engines, the additional expense of "flow coatng" the internal passages of the header or intake is not be necessary.