'75

Long story about the pipes. Wife surprised me with them for Christmas, turns out they are Knock-offs, but I'm using them cause they're the best(only) ones I got. They are said to have htc coating, which I think is ceramic, the coating looked like crap on the headers, but the side pipes were nice and shiney like chrome. Well, I found out the collectors were stainless so I polished off the coating and polished the collectors, very bright like chrome. I was hoping for the best and installed them. I fired up the engine and did some tuning and messing around stopping vacuum leaks and saw the primary pipes had the coating bubbling up from the heat up close to the heads. Did I miss something or is this coating bad? Is there a process to season the coating so it doesn't keep cooking the stuff off. The primarys at the collector are more dull than they were and I guess I can live with it till maybe next winter to get the pipes and headers coated alike.

69camfrk

Man, that looks like silver paint that is in the process of burning off!

Duke94

That's not ceramic. I've had my Hookers glow cherry red (long story) and the coating never came off. I would send them back or better yet, just send them to Jet Hot.

randommj

theres a guy here in Joplin that did mine for about 350 headers and pipes, thats wierd how it just stops RIGHT at the collector

Miles

'75

I guess it could have been paint, but that stuff was tough and would polish up like chrome. I was hoping that it just wasn't processed or baked on right.


the collectors are stainless but the primarys are regular steel.

rihwoods

If you want more HP...go with under car exhaust....then you don't have to worry about chrome coatings,etc...

'75

Wasn't looking for hp gain, just comments on ceramic coating.

rihwoods

Just my point...no guarantees on ceramic coatings...your exhaust pipes will out last any coating...

Rottenrob

Under car exhaust and ceramic coated headers on my car here, guess that throws a wrench in your theory.. The guy obviously wants to rock the side pipes his cool wife bought him for Christmas, how does this comment help?

Like Duke94 said, send them to Jet hot, seems like the best solution, I have Hooker Ceramics and the Jet hot coating is reputed to last longer, and they definitely look better too.

blunblk68

no way those were ceramic!! must have been paint!! as far as hp i thought the less restriction the more hp you gain so how can undercar exhaust produce more power???

send them off to jet hot the headers anyway and have them coated!!

Love My 72 and 77

HTC= Hella Thin Chrome paint

HamadUP

Don't return them back, that way your wife will think she made a wrong decision when she bought them for you and that will just break her heart. Send them to Jet-Hot and just tell her that they will be much better if they'll be coated.

You are a very lucky man to that wife!

BB72

Another option is to sand blast them and coat them with high heat flat black, if you get the right stuff it will seem like it goes right into the metal and will not peel, chip or flake off. The stuff I bought in the past was great, you could get anything on it and it would just burn off. My opinion is that flat black looks great but it may not be for you.

corvetteload

It just proves that women DON'T know what men want or need.........................Buy that sh*t yourself!!!!!

moosie982

They're coming outta the woodwork on this thread Peace,,,Moosie

Jims79

pbcanney

What a great wife.!

Can't fault her.

She's probably gonna feel crappy her gift has issues.

nip that in the bud.

I agree with sending them out to Jet Hot. They'll fix em up right.

marshrat99

gone from thoughtful wife to women bashing in 10.2 secs.

Jim_Harrison

Can you tell us the name of the manufacturer of this exhaust system so that no one else on the forum will buy them?

jim2527

Your thought is correct but, its been proven time and time again that sidepipes make less power than a full true dual under car exhaust.


To the OP...send them off to get coated but dont tell your wife. No need to make her feel bad about doing something nice for you.