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Re: Header paint



If you can find a shop near you that polishes parts for cars that are cromed there or somewhere else you can get your headers glass-bead blasted.  Then, just before you paint them, you wipe off the dust real good.  I got my blasted when I tried to paint them and the hot engine burned the paint off the headers.  Some of it was left.  My buddy blasted my coated headers without hurting them and they looked nearly new again.
 
Body shops also might be able to blast off your headers before they are painted.  Its like one engine builder said to me.  1300 degree paint burned off of headers in the old days and 1300 degree paint still acts in the same way.  You need much higher temp. paint for it to not burn off.  I said I thought it would work better because the paint contained ceramic material now and it didn't them.  He said it was still rated for 1300 degrees and would burn off every time.  After watching it burn off of my headers during its first "dry" run, I believe him.
 
I washed my headers a few days in a washtub with soap and water before they got painted.  Then I never touched thems again.  I put part of an undone coathander through one of the holes and tied the header to a tree in the sun and let it dry.  It only got painted on a sunny day low in humidity.  All that work and I go and use the wrong paint.  I only had to rinse them off after my friend blasted the paint off that was left.
 
I think I just pointed you in the right direction.  I have been there and done that.  I'm not alway right.  I'm not always wrong either.  Just want to make your car and engine come out as good as they can the best and easiest way.  You are getting one of my (and everyone else's) favorite cars on the road and everyone is happy about that, for sure.
 
Chick
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From: Jacob Fox
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: Header paint

Mine are factory they are just covered in surface rust. I figured a good scotch pad cleaning, then a couple coats of paint would do the trick 

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On Aug 12, 2011, at 5:26 PM, "Stephen Andrachek" <s.andrachek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried to paint my headers as they were coated but a little scratched up.  I used 1300 degree paint and it burned off the first time the engine started.
 
The engine man said you have to use 17 or 1800 degree paint or it will burn off.
 
Chick
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Header paint

Rich,

 

When I get home tonight I'll give you the info on what I used to redo my TTI's for the Poly stroker. The paint is as good as it was a year and a half ago when I did them.

 

Nick Tiberio

FuryUs63

 

 

 



 


From: "Richard Kinsley" <leroar.kinsley058@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 4:03:44 PM
Subject: Header paint

My TTI's have taken quite a bit of abuse over the last 5 or so years. Besides being rubbed raw they are quite stained from misc oils and other fluids. I don't want to spend $250 to have them recoated and mainly the timing would be an issue. I already have lost all the season so far and don't want any more slow downs. I am planning to clean them as best I can with acetone and then use the VHT header paint in a similar silver color. I was thinking of the stainless steel paint I used on the intake and front cover but that stuff is three times as expensive as VHT and is rated at 400deg whereas the VHT is something like 1500deg.. 


I know header paint has always been an issue but I want something to work NOW and it can be redone on the next build in a couple years. Anybody with previous experience? 

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