Exhaust manifold treatment

Exhaust manifold treatment

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Plan B

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347 posts

125 months

Wednesday 22nd April 2015
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This year I plan to take out the pre-cats and whist the manifolds are removed I am wondering what I can do to improve the appearance of the manifolds/cat. It all looks like a rusting pile of Victorian plumbing and I wondered whether I should put some UHT type paint onto them or put some exhaust wrap (still not pretty) around them.
I've read in past threads over the years that paint hasn't been at all successful with paint that should withstand 1500C flaking off within days however if any new ideas or products have emerged I'd love to hear. I don't want to pay ~ £1,000 for new s/s manifolds or almost that amount for ceramic coating the existing manifolds.
Thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.

Plan B

Original Poster:

347 posts

125 months

Friday 24th April 2015
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Thanks for the reccy Mark. I looked at the Autotek sister product to the aluminium finish which is a matt black finish and Autotek rates it at 150'C higher again. I've just ordered that now. My intention is to take the manifolds to my local powder coater and get him to grit blast then immediately apply the Autotek VHT then bake it off in his oven. My car has just gone off to the paint shop so I won't be able to do this until a few months time so it will be a while before I can comment on how effective this has been.