Ceramic headers

[mrvette]

for my '72, I need to know a fair price to ceramic coat a new set of headers, with manufacturere's black paint on them...
after I mod them to fit my car .....

how much will the underhood temps be affected as opposed to no ceramic?? apparently the exhaust system pipes will run hotter if the underhood temps are reduced??

GENE

I really couldn't tell you how much someone would charge for powdercoating. It really all depends on headers and anything else you might coat.

If I had to guesstimate probably around $200 or so. Jet-Hot would probably be a good place to do the job.

I noticed a BIG difference when I went with headers on my Vette. The radiant heat alone was drastically reduced. With the cast mainfolds I could feel my face burning standing right over the engine bay. Once I installed the headers and used thermal wrap (don't recommend using it) it was reduced to a minimum. Not only that the "hot foot" syndrome was reduced as well.

[Vette/Berlina-coupe]

-what's with the ceramic-coating of headers (ceramic or porcelain like on quality stoves and vintage '30's motorcars is a glass-based substance and is primarily just for appearance, beautiful in blue on Cadillac/Exh.-manifolds), --however for ideal performance advantage, if you have your tubular-steel or cast-iron Exh.manifolds "liquid-hot plasma aluminum-sprayed" necessarily "inside and out" you will eliminate thermal-radiation from the headers to the extent that you can safely touch'em with a fully-warmed-up engine running (effectively reflects-heat like a mirror); --thus they claim added power and fuel-mileage, plus the bright/aluminum-coating looks spiffie as well while greatly extending the life of ordinary steel-headers as well! Here's a Specialist-website for additional info. on the particular Bright-coating (reflective, if you insist upon surface-blasting inside/outside, --they should last you a decade, probably much longer)-- http://www.jet-hot.com and weekdays 800/432-3379 for tech.rep & pricing.... ; --get my external-only/alum.-coating work done in So.Calif. by- FlameSpray-Inc. --619/283-2007. --website: http://www.flamesprayinc.com/ -but they do NOT do the vital internal-coating! If you wish to buy a set of Exh.headers pre/aluminum-coated, just make sure that they are double-coated (that is both inside & outside), --that's the trick....
~Bob vH

[Bob Chadwick]

Bob,

Is there a manufacturer of headers with this coating, such as Dynomax with the ceramic coating?

Bob