Ok so on my headman headers i decided to paint them nice an black to get rod of the rusty look but all of the sudden i drove the car around the city when i puled back into the driveway i noticed that the paint faded away what caused that i did use high heat engine enamel paint that with stood up to 700 degrees ???

 

exhaust gets hotter than that. You need specific header paint.

 

Yea seems like ill be getting a different paint

 

Even with "header paint" I have never had much luck with it lasting.

 

yeah my VHT paint lasted about an hour...I even baked it and everything.

 

i used grill paint on mine an what i didn't chip off putting them on is staying ok . i need to redo them whith them on the car . i skun the hell outta them putting them on .lol

 

My vht ceramic header paint applied and baked on as per the instructions (both in oven and on car) has lasted 800 miles on some bad tunes with a turbo - it's pretty good stuff if applied correctly

 

Engine enamel on headers = Fail

You need high heat header or bbq paint 2000º and even then the paint will come off. They have to go trough a baking process, noted in the instructions on specific high heat paints.

 

POR 20 held up well on a set I did, though I did not care for the look of it.

 

heres my headers :


like i said i need to redo them but i think this paint is holding up for the parts i didn't scrap off ...
i'll redo them in this paint when i change the cam

 

I used that same can of paint on mine but in black.. had to get the drivers side heated up almost red hot so I could angle the collector downwards some and the paint just flaked off once the acetylene torch hit it... guess I'll repaint that area and then see how it does once I fire up the car.. I'm thinking that I will probably have to heat cycle them a couple of times and then pull them off and repaint them again..

 

apparently the ONLY thing that stays on @^%$#$ headers is some kind of coating, not paint

 

Ceramic coating?