Repair Cracks In Ceramic Coated Headers
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Repair cracks in ceramic coated headers. 4 4 out of 5 stars 19. The headers come ceramic coated and ready to bolt up. It is as far as we know just mild steel with a ceramic coating. About 8 years ago when my wife had a 99 v6 mustang the passenger header cracked and a local welding shop was able to weld the crack shut.
A guy on another forum has a crack in his 4 2 1 exhaust manifold. Finally if you are a race car driver parts are expensive so if you can get them to last even a little bit longer the protection of the ceramic coating can pay for the cost of it in no time. Coating your headers in ceramic improves their heat resistance and keeps them from being tarnished or damaged by the heat. The headers come with no flange on the end of.
The ceramic coating will help keep external surface temperatures lower than a painted or chrome header. Vht sp117 flameproof coating flat aluminum paint. Plus it should match the look of the ceramic coating. Giant finishing demonstrates how they polish ceramic coated headers.
In other words ceramic coated headers look and function the same on mile one as they do on mile 300 000. 02 26 14 09 20 pm post 2430880 in response to chevee55 eastwood is supposed to have some high temp header paint that gets baked on when running the engine. The company who made it have advised him to clean off the ceramic around the crack with a grinder and simply re weld it using a zr 702 filler. So a lot of users ceramic coat their headers to make sure they don t get damaged from corrosion and they have to waste time and money putting in a new set.
A ceramic header coating also provides protection against the corrosive materials in the exhaust. 1 16 of 227 results for ceramic header paint amazon s choice for ceramic header paint. 4 4 out of 5 stars 281. If you have ever done the burn test where you reach in and accidentally burn your hand or your arm then you know that a ceramic coated header will cool down much quicker than chrome or painted tubes.
As far as repairing ceramic coated headers i m not sure. More doug thorley short tube header details.