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Re: painting the exhaust system
Reply #15 - 05/29/09 at 09:00:41

PipJones wrote on 05/29/09 at 06:51:59:

Would painting the exhaust from the Header back cause any problems? I know you guys have painted the tail ends, but could you paint directly from the exhaust port from the engine?

paint and powdercoat have a real aversion to sticking to chrome... a proper chrome based primer can help for a car bumper, but they cant take high-temps... to paint the headpipe and have it last more than a week, you'd be best served by either fabbing a new headpipe(carbon or stainless 1 1/2 inch exhaust tubing), or take the orig headpipe to a plating shop and have the chrome "de-plated"

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PipJones Full Member Offline Posts: 146 Fort Worth, Tx Gender:	Re: painting the exhaust system Reply #16 - 05/29/09 at 09:43:17 hrm... any ideas how much that would cost?
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Re: painting the exhaust system
Reply #17 - 05/29/09 at 10:00:44

de-plating is usually very cheap... in the area of 10 bucks a square foot... a muffler shop with a computerized bender could fab up a carbon headpipe on the cheap too(bring the old one as a template).. check the phone book, call a couple local shops, and ask for a "rough guesstimate".... just bear in mind, if one shop quotes much less than the others, you probably wont get as quality a job from them...

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Reply #18 - 05/29/09 at 10:18:38

marshall13 wrote on 05/29/09 at 10:00:44:

de-plating is usually very cheap... in the area of 10 bucks a square foot... a muffler shop with a computerized bender could fab up a carbon headpipe on the cheap too(bring the old one as a template).. check the phone book, call a couple local shops, and ask for a "rough guesstimate".... just bear in mind, if one shop quotes much less than the others, you probably wont get as quality a job from them...

Paint job on the muffler done. I painted it with an enamel-ceramic hitemp header paint. VHT brand I believe it is. I scuffed up the nasty muffler quite well and painted last night. I went ahead and did the heat sheild by the rear brake and my cylinder head covers. I am going to cure them in the oven when I get home from work this afternoon. I wrapped the exhaust system too,

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Re: painting the exhaust system
Reply #19 - 05/29/09 at 10:26:21

odvelasc wrote on 05/29/09 at 10:18:38:

marshall13 wrote on 05/29/09 at 10:00:44:

de-plating is usually very cheap... in the area of 10 bucks a square foot... a muffler shop with a computerized bender could fab up a carbon headpipe on the cheap too(bring the old one as a template).. check the phone book, call a couple local shops, and ask for a "rough guesstimate".... just bear in mind, if one shop quotes much less than the others, you probably wont get as quality a job from them...

Paint job on the muffler done. I painted it with an enamel-ceramic hitemp header paint. VHT brand I believe it is. I scuffed up the nasty muffler quite well and painted last night. I went ahead and did the heat sheild by the rear brake and my cylinder head covers. I am going to cure them in the oven when I get home from work this afternoon. I wrapped the exhaust system too,

let us know how the ceramic stuff holds up on the chrome... i dont think ive ever seen it used on chrome... hopefully it's the "miracle paint" that will allow a decent hi-temp job on chrome... you'd think with the current flat black craze, a coating company would have addressed the issue...

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Re: painting the exhaust system
Reply #20 - 05/29/09 at 13:51:47

marshall13 wrote on 05/29/09 at 10:26:21:

odvelasc wrote on 05/29/09 at 10:18:38:

marshall13 wrote on 05/29/09 at 10:00:44:

de-plating is usually very cheap... in the area of 10 bucks a square foot... a muffler shop with a computerized bender could fab up a carbon headpipe on the cheap too(bring the old one as a template).. check the phone book, call a couple local shops, and ask for a "rough guesstimate".... just bear in mind, if one shop quotes much less than the others, you probably wont get as quality a job from them...

Paint job on the muffler done. I painted it with an enamel-ceramic hitemp header paint. VHT brand I believe it is. I scuffed up the nasty muffler quite well and painted last night. I went ahead and did the heat sheild by the rear brake and my cylinder head covers. I am going to cure them in the oven when I get home from work this afternoon. I wrapped the exhaust system too,

let us know how the ceramic stuff holds up on the chrome... i dont think ive ever seen it used on chrome... hopefully it's the "miracle paint" that will allow a decent hi-temp job on chrome... you'd think with the current flat black craze, a coating company would have addressed the issue...

Well I have seen a few cylinder heads painted but I dont know how well they held up. I believe that Demin's bobber had his cylinder heads painted in that purple flake. My after market muffler is definitely not chrome.

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