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I highly recommend VHT Manifold and Header Paints. They have held up the best of anything I have used. Comes in a spray can. $7.99 a can on Jegs. If you bake the paint on as the instructions say it lasts quite awhile.
I coated my headers with the VHT paint and baked em in the oven. The paint still looks good 3.5 years later except for where I scratched it.
For some reason I thought everyone had a problem keeping any paint on headers or manifolds, guess I was wrong. Next time i'm at an auto-zone type place i'll take a look at some header paints.
Originally posted by TA5LiterHO I highly recommend VHT Manifold and Header Paints. They have held up the best of anything I have used. Comes in a spray can. $7.99 a can on Jegs. If you bake the paint on as the instructions say it lasts quite awhile.
I coated my headers with the VHT paint and baked em in the oven. The paint still looks good 3.5 years later except for where I scratched it.
I thought the VHT Paint was only good to 900 Degrees... Maybe I was looking at the wrong kind, do they have different kinds of VHT Paint?
Adam, How long has the dupli-color been on your headers?
Also, has anyone played with DEI HT Silicone Coating, seen here?
Don't mean to hi-jack the thread, just want some answers.
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Mods: TB Bypass, Jeg's RedHot Coil and Ignition Module, K&N Air Filter, Ported Plenum, 3" cat back with Flowmaster Muffler dual 2-1/2" Out the back with Chrome Y tips, 180* thermostat, Manual fan switch, Accel 8mm Super Stock Plug Wires.
Soon: Project 383 TPI nearing compleation... Forged Pistons and Rods, AFR 195 cc Heads, TPIS BigMouth Majorly ported and matched, Edelbrock Runners, Edelbrock Headers, TPIS zz9 Copy Cam, LS1 Injectors, Custom Prom, 2400 Stall Converter, TransGO Shift Kit, and new almost everything with the engine. Lets hope I push 300+rwhp and 400+rwtq.
VHT makes all kinds of paint. The brake paint is rated at 900 degrees. The header and manifold paint i use is good to 1500. The manifold paint seems to be a bit heavier duty paint and it comes in metal color only.
Trust me, the vht doesn't come off even after gtting all kinds of fluid and crap on it. Even I was surprised by this. I tried the parts store stuff on my ypipe and it comes off in like 10 minutes. The vht stays on. Just make sure you cure it.
Originally posted by TheMysticWizard I thought the VHT Paint was only good to 900 Degrees... Maybe I was looking at the wrong kind, do they have different kinds of VHT Paint?
Adam, How long has the dupli-color been on your headers?
Also, has anyone played with DEI HT Silicone Coating, seen here?
Don't mean to hi-jack the thread, just want some answers.
Ive use both VHT & DEI.They both work about the same,but i remember the older DEI working alot better than VHT the first time i used it.
I used Eastwoods header paint, seems to be lasting pretty good, looks real nice. You just gota make sure the pipes are extremely clean, no grease or dirt. Clean them up with laquer thinner or some acetone, just get them really clean then paint. Mine are holding up good, and I do a lot of highway driving, turnin about 3000 rpm for an hour... so they get hot. it flaked up on one of the pipes right after the burn in process, but i cleaned it up and recoated that part, and now it seems to be good. http://www.eastwoodco.com/ for the paint.
pic of one header on the engine after a few weeks of driving:
