Coated Headers
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Coated Headers
I know it's not "specific to 73-79" but I thought I'd post anyway since many already know what I'm working on (77 F250 4x4). I finally was able to get my 460 headers ceramic coated. The downfall, they turned out a bit duller than what they were supposed to (I wouldn't have really known if the guy who did it wouldn't have told me). He said for some reason, they wouldn't dry like they should because the humidity in his shop was so low. Anyway, the good was that he had to spray on some extra ceramic on the headers, so they should be a bit better performance wise. Oh well, he gave me a pretty good deal and I think they look much better anyway than before.
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Definitely money well spent. The place that did them charged me $160.00. I guess I thought that was a heck of a deal. My quote through JETHOT coating was somewhere around $360.00. From specifications, there really isn't that much difference between the JETHOT coating and the ceramic.
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Typical nickel coated headers, look like a rainbow of color. They looked soooo purdy when they were new....
and made a terrible **** trumpet, and undoubtedly, a terribly uncomfortable seat
And turned almost immediately.
I was disapointed that the nickel coating wasn't worth a salt as far as the color staying was concerned. I did not know it at the time, but if I had taken the time to have them coated prior to using them, I would have fried the coating, I guess you are not supposed to use coated headers on new engines?
Those coated headers look sharp. Did you or they do any metal prep prior to the coating? Strip the nickel, sand the tooling marks, anything??? My L&Ls looked like they could have been sanded a touch to remove the teeth marks from the mandrel bending..
and made a terrible **** trumpet, and undoubtedly, a terribly uncomfortable seat
And turned almost immediately.
I was disapointed that the nickel coating wasn't worth a salt as far as the color staying was concerned. I did not know it at the time, but if I had taken the time to have them coated prior to using them, I would have fried the coating, I guess you are not supposed to use coated headers on new engines?
Those coated headers look sharp. Did you or they do any metal prep prior to the coating? Strip the nickel, sand the tooling marks, anything??? My L&Ls looked like they could have been sanded a touch to remove the teeth marks from the mandrel bending..
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I once had a set of lnl header coated at jet hot and when sent back they got stolen and jet hot later replaced them for free with new headers from lnl nickle plated. It was a bad situation but it all worked out in the end. but I had taken vacation time off to do this project and it didn't get done during my scheduled time off. Spent half my time trying to figure out where they went.
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I once had a set of lnl header coated at jet hot and when sent back they got stolen and jet hot later replaced them for free with new headers from lnl nickle plated. It was a bad situation but it all worked out in the end. but I had taken vacation time off to do this project and it didn't get done during my scheduled time off. Spent half my time trying to figure out where they went.
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Whats up with that?? Did they get stolen out of their shop, while in transit, or while they were sitting on your doorstep waiting for you to come home? That is messed up on both ends. Loosing your headers, and them having to eat a set of headers because of some thief. How come they did not coat them for you? It kinda defeats the purpose of sending them off for service....
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