Ceramic Header Coating Rusty

Mine were a rusty mess in less than a year and now a few years later the coating is flaking off everywhere.

Ceramic header coating rusty.

Nitroplate bright is a highly polished aluminum ceramic coating capable of withstanding 1300 degrees. If not for the oil all over the passenger side from the rear main leak they d be pretty close to perfect. Time to give jet hot a call and tell them you need your headers re coated they allegedly have a 20 year warranty on the coating. I would have contacted them to get my headers re done if one of my.

So is applying a ceramic coating solely to protect your car from corrosion and rust worth it. My basic dynomax ceramic coated headers maybe it s jet hot i forget but whatever dynomax sold in 95 are still in good shape. The type of steel used to make them may have some rust resistance. Nitroplate coating significantly reduces the outside surface temperature of the header thereby decreasing engine compartment heat.

Next time i want coated headers i ll buy the plain ones and send them to jethot. Some natural headers come with a polished finish. They wouldn t happen to be hooker headers with their factory ceramic coating would they. Natural headers are not protected by any coating this means they are usually the least expensive.

I had a set of dynomax ceramic headers that had about 30 of the coating fall off each tube but before the coating fell off it did like yours are doing now with little spots of rust popping up. High temp paint is also available to protect them from rust. Giant finishing demonstrates how they polish ceramic coated headers. The cost of a diy ceramic coating the time spent prepping the vehicle and application is far less costly than repairing rust damage.