PyRo9862

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=34202
If I paint my manifolds with that, any idea if it will hold up? If its as good as any of Por-15's other stuff, I would think that it would hold.

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.

Air_Adam

I just used some parts-store header paint that said it was good to 1200 degrees. Dupli-color I think it was... so far so good.

PyRo9862

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.

Air_Adam

Just don't get the cheap no-name crap... if you get good, brand name stuff it should work well.

TheMysticWizard

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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.

TA5LiterHO

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.

http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerc...search=on&ns=Y

There's the link to it on Jegs.

84 1LE

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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.

70BuickSleeper

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:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3fz64/s...s/dscn0459.jpg