High Temp Powder Coat

[Vitesse951]

Does anyone know where I can get a high temp powder coat for headers? It has to be able to withstand at least 1600 degrees. The highest I was able to find is only good to 1000 degrees.

[Boost Infested]

top gun, look it up in the white page, get the black stuff, 1600d+

[rice_eater]

yes top gun

[Luke 96 T/A]

bah.. I got that from top gun, and it peeled after a few months...
I wouldn't recommend it..
they're willing to recoat it, but it's an 8 hour job for a mechanic to get my headers off and on..

[XES]

I'm also running a ceramic coated manifold from Top Gun. I went with the aluminum (shiny) colored coating. It has definately faded where the maximum heat is...but it certainly doesn't peel at all.

[SUPRAPHAT]

Hey

Don't have it powdercoated!! Get it ceramic coated at Top Gun! They are the only ceramic coaters in the city and they do a great job! Ceramic coating keeps the heat down and looks beautiful. Powdercoating has no actual function except for making it look a different color.

Just my $0.02 cents

Good Luck

Jason

[rice_eater]

:banghead: didn't even pick up on that!!! yeah man...ceramic coating is what you want, not high temp powder crap.

[Luke 96 T/A]

heheh.. I think everyone knew what he meant ;-)

[SUPRAPHAT]

One thing to remember with Top Gun though is that they are never finished on time. They will try to tell you it will take however many days(ex. 7 days) but what they really mean is like 2 - 2 1/2 weeks. Everyone that I have ever seen take parts there has ended up waiting extra long to get the parts back.

Later

Jason

[CLiVE]

here's a pic of their work...cost $104 to have my plenum ceramic coated. Very nice...:thumbsup: Took a long time...left it there over the holidays last Christmas....

[Boost Infested]

the shiny stuff is more for show. the black colored coating is the higher stuff.

[SUPRAPHAT]

Actually, the shiny stuff is not for show!! It keeps engine temps down by keeping the heat reflected into the area that is coated. I personally have never heard of this black crap but when you want to get heat shielding done get ceramic coating. I believe the black stuff would be powdercoating which does crap for heat.

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Jason

[T5Bird]

Originally posted by SUPRAPHAT
Actually, the shiny stuff is not for show!! It keeps engine temps down by keeping the heat reflected into the area that is coated. I personally have never heard of this black crap but when you want to get heat shielding done get ceramic coating. I believe the black stuff would be powdercoating which does crap for heat.

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Jason
Top Gun has flat Black Ceramicoat that is higher temp than High Luster Silver ceramicoat. FYI.

[Luke 96 T/A]

Yeah.. it's the black ceramic.. rated for a much higher heat then the silver colored ceramic..
however, as I said earlier.. I have it.. it peeled... dunno why, dunno how.. but it was crap for me that is costing me a LOT of money..