Ceramic Coaed headers

[chalkys_explorer]

There seems to be a lot of dramas with exhaust manifold cracking and i would have thought having the intercooler over a VERY hot turbo and exhaust manifold couldn't be good either.

I am wondering if anyone here had ever had their manifold ceramic coated?? I had the Ranger tube header i put on my '93 LX ceramic coated and not only did it reduce my underhood temperature but i can wrap my hand around the tubing within a few minutes.

Anyone here tried this and what results did you have??

Chris

[AT6svo]

I found this thread to be applicable after a quick search.

http://www.svoca.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6517&highlight=ceramic+coating

HTH,

[svobrown]

This is a cheap way out but I used the copper gasket spray on my E6 and turbo. Very pretty untill it gets hot then it baked on like a coating. After 2 years, (3000 miles) and alot of very hot runs it is starting to chip away in a few spots. Very cool in the engine bay all the time.

[svobrown]

Here is a small pic of it. Turn's white after a few hundred miles.

[SVOBart]

That's the header that's in my car now, isn't it Kerry?

[chalkys_explorer]

So what brand/ part number copper gasket stuff is that??? I assuming a few coats of that and then maybe some high temp engine colour would do the job and make it prettty. Did you paint the inside as well??

Chris

[svobrown]

That's the header that's in my car now, isn't it Kerry?

Yeap thats in your svo now. No rust on it yet?
No on the inside. I was afraid it might mess with the O2 sensor. Just the cheap stuff they had on the shelf.

[SVOBart]

Yeah, its glazed over with some rust, but none of the flaky kind of stuff. It has actually turned a darker color right around the mounting flange for the turbo. It still has that funky green color from the copper spray in a couple of places.

[Pat_in_L.A.]

Another interesting thread:

http://www.svoca.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3329&highlight=thermal+coating

[svobrown]

Yeah, its glazed over with some rust, but none of the flaky kind of stuff. It has actually turned a darker color right around the mounting flange for the turbo. It still has that funky green color from the copper spray in a couple of places.

Looking back, That one has been done for 4 years. GREEN

[lonchair]

I've had my E6 on for about 5+ years now and it is coated inside and out with Jet Hot. The outside is starting to turn dark now in a few areas and some surface rust spots are starting to show up. It did and still does cut down on the underhood temps as judged by holding my hand in the exhaust area.

[Ted B]

REAL ceramic coating found right here: http://www.swaintech.com/header.html

Unlike Jet-Hot et al, this isn't paint.

[Gyrhead]

Jet-Hot Stinks

I've dealt with Jet-Hot extensively in the past and watched their quality and service go down the crapper over the years. Many times, the parts came back thinly coated and with rust spots in areas that weren't coated. I started sending the stuff back and they always gave me a hard time and took forever to get it back to me. The final straw with them was when they lost a customer's vintage racing snowmobile pipe that I had sent them for coating. This baby was priceless (in other words a one-off) and they couldn't care less. Their customer service is non-existant and the loser that was responsible for it was always unavailable (never answered his phone, voicemail box filled and unable to take messages, no back-up coverage when you dial zero, etc, etc). When I finally got the guy on the phone promptly at 7:30am (I suspect he was intentionally ducking unhappy customer calls and I suprised him first thing in the morning), he told me that the owner of Jet-Hot had made "a ton of money and was tired of doing this business, didn't want to spend any money on more employees or equipment". They used every excuse to tell me that never got it...sorry, but I have their signature on the UPS log, and then they told me that they had it, but it was broken, and then they couldn't find it and then...it was never received by us...My god, at least get your stories straight. Don't tell me you've got it and then later try to say you never received it...

Gawd, I hope they've improved their quality since then, but based on my experience(s) I wouldn't recommend them to anyone!!! Oh, ironically, they "found" my pipe 2 years later, after I had already shelled out over $1k to have a new one made custom.

Yet, I digress