I see all these posts about fuming up the house, killing the cat, sterilizing the kids, and pissing off the wife from "cooking" your self-coated headers in the house oven - I plan on doing this soon - but here's my idea:

I bought an old, nasty, electric oven at a yard sale for $20. Set the oven in the yard, yank the backcover, splice the wire from your dryer into the oven (oven is 220 volts), run it through the window to the dryer plug, and bake 'em outside!

Save $30 in air freshener, keep the cat, have grandchildren, and most importantly - keep the wife happy!

 

If you are going to use an oven to bake your headers, I think this is the way to do it. It's safe, and won't stink up the house.
*** help me if my wife caught me using "her" oven to bake paint on headers I don't like to think about it.

 

I am in the middle of doing my second set of headers before they hit eBay. We have an oven here at work that is used for something. I have no idea what, but it goes to 1000*, so I doubt its for food. 1 hour at 650* does great.

 

Got an old gas grille around ? They work too.

 

Anybody seen an oven or grill big enough for full-length headers? I just finished painting the headers for the '57, told my wife she needed to get a bigger oven so I can bake them (she remembers the "fuming up the house, killing the cat, sterilizing the kids" from baking the Camaro headers). She said, "They have bigger ovens at the church..." Somehow, I don't think they'd appeciate that utilization of their new commercial ovens...

I ended up spending a few hours with a couple of propane torches attempting a hand-cure. No idea if I did any good.

 

as a chef its easy for me to find a oven to put my headers in i just wish i would of waited to do this before I put them on my car. An industral oven is deep and wide enought for a hotel sheet pan. A hotel sheet pan is 18"x26" and you can prob fit say more in there like around 20"x 26" in there fine. measure the long tubes maybe you can get them in crossways. With the racks out you will have no problems with hieght. I just measured our home oven and its only like 17"x21". But if you know someone with a indutral oven its nice and big.......and if you need bigger find a pizza oven or a ceramic fire oven for ceramic crafts(i dont know how big you can get them tho). And actually theres a bread oven at our new grosery store that you can actually roll whole roll-o-racks into so a walk in oven should be big enought for ya,,,hard thing is letting someone use it for a few hours.

 

BBQ them!