Hey Guys / Gals,

My Hookers are pretty rusty but I like the performance. I'm thinking about having them sand-blasted and painted.

This is gonna' make some of your cringe but, I'm thinking about going w/ white! I remember, back in the day, white headers looked great, until you put them on. Obviously hard to keep clean.

My question: Have paints come far enough to put a "clear coat" over the top that I can "wipe" grease/oil off of? How about a white powder coat?

Thanks,
Rob

So far the only thing that I've found that will withstand the heat and stay nice looking for any length of time is ceramic coating.

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Black 69 camaro

Go ceramic!!!
The companies that do this coating can go with most popular colors and can go flat through gloss. Real sharp. Lasts forever

I have white painted headers on mine. They looked great for about a week. Now they look like crap. I would definately go with ceramic coating over paint.

Is the ceramic easy to clean ?

[This message has been edited by angie rs/ss (edited 07-23-2001).]

Powder coating wont work - the material will melt at 400 degrees. I bet you could get white in ceramic coating though. I still build my 60s car models with white headers. They look pretty cool.

It takes a long time to do hearder wright. Start you car count to two then trun your car off. Keep doing this increasing buy two secons at a time every time you shut off your car do not start it tell the hearders are cool anuff to tuch do this tell you get to 30 then the should be ready for the road. Tell you hit some rain then you get to do it agan.

TIM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tim Meredith:
It takes a long time to do hearder wright. Start you car count to two then trun your car off. Keep doing this increasing buy two secons at a time every time you shut off your car do not start it tell the hearders are cool anuff to tuch do this tell you get to 30 then the should be ready for the road. Tell you hit some rain then you get to do it agan.
( 1,2 off,1,2,3,4 off 1,2,3,4,5,6 off)
Hope this makes it clear.

TIM

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what about Eastwoods manifold coating?says its good up to 1200 degrees.

Angie the answer is yes, they are very easy to keep clean. The ceramic is a very smooth surface and on mine anyways it is not porous so it doesn't absorb oils or anything like that. But I noticed that I got a few scratches that one can't touch up from pushing it up past my starter sheild.

Ceramic coating is the best route to go. If you don't want to shell out the bucks for it and are determined to paint them VHT Flameproof coating is the only paint I can recomend you use. I've never had any problem with it and it holds up much better than anything else I used. Have you considered header wrap? This will keep your underhood temps down and help scavenge the cylinders by keeping the heat inside the pipes. Some guys say the wrap holds moisture in and rust the headers though.

RFrenette,
Just curious I see you're in CT. Anywhere near Oxford or Dansbury? We fly out there 2 or 3 times a week. Do you know any Camaro people up in Keane or New Swanzey NH? I picked up a 69 SS drag car there over the Winter. Nice car, nice people. The car was trailered to drag strips since 1970.

Yea ! Once again there is hope for pretty white headers in my engine bay !

I've used Rustoleum "Barbeque Black" and had pretty good luck. I know that sounds cheezy, but its a high temp paint that seems to stay pretty good.

You have to get off ALL the old paint and other scum first. It will turn a little grey where the headers get the hottest, but other than that it's always stayed on pretty good for me.

I personally prefer to take the dough I'd spend on ceramic coating and spend it on something that makes me go faster! http://www.camaros.net/forum/biggrin.gif

Thanks to everyone for the input!

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SY1,

I'm near Manchester, North-East of Hartford. What brings you to CT that often, if you don't mind my asking? Do you run your car around here? (NY/NJ/NH)

Don't happen to know any folks in the NH area but you may want to drop a message on the CT F-Bod Assoc board: http://www.geocities.com/ctfba

Maybe we'll see ya' around!

Regards,
Rob

I bought ceramic coated headers from Jegs for my 67. I haven't put them on yet and yes they were expensive, but I figure after all the ugly looking headers I've had on my cars, it was time to get something that would last and look good.

I've also used VHT paint. It doesn't last long IMHO.

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Racer#00

Plain Jane 67
76 Trans Am Stock Car
74 Z28 (Basket case)

Rob,
I work for a corporate flight department that recently merged with another company in Oxford. We run one of the jets to Oxford 2 or 3 times a week as a shuttle. the airline connections aren't that good between here and there. Picking up the Camaro in NH was my first road trip out there. It's nice country.
Thanks for the F body link.
Dave