Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:How much does a ceramic coating cost? Any ideas? I had ceramic black pipes on my XS850, but I bought them that way. Do you have to rough up the chrome finish first?
Well Jet-Hot was like the 1st coater, then Airborn was a spinoff. They do lots of stuff for folks like in NASCAR and stuff, About twice as high too.
I don't think they will do anything better than Firecote.
We have used Firecote w/ good results on a set of zoomies for a nostalgia dragster and the price was better than Jet-Hot or Airborn. Ihad planned to use them again, but Firecote's website was down the week I wanted my headpipe done, so I asked around, did a search and found M&R in Kodak TN, They turned my badly blued pipe around in about 10 days.$36 bucks for the full boat, inside & outside job.
I have a good plater here but don't think he would replate my pipe for that.
While I am tuning my 650, I plan to do a report w/ photos of my tests w/ the Supertrapp, the NOS 1st generation Savage Mikuni vs. the stock 2001 carb for you guys. Unless I find a bike dyno in my area, I just plan to jet it and test @the drag strip (it's more fun too).
I will post a photo of my coated headpipe for your inspection when I get home. My friend took my camera to the big F.A.S.T. (Factory Appearing Stock Tire) race in St.Louis so when I get it back and I come back from Indy maybe next week I can post something.