Header Wrap, yes or no?
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Burning Brakes
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Header Wrap, yes or no?
I have a new set of ARH long tubes that will be installed in spring. Should I wrap the Headers to reduce engine room heat or not ? I am also having a A&A Supercharger installed at the same time.
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Burning Brakes
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I hadn’t thought about Ceramic Coating them but now I think I will go that route. There seems to be more and more colors available all the time now too. Found a place very close to me I can just drop them off for a day or two and then pick them back up finished.
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Two years later they still look great
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Wrap is a bad idea. Ceramic coating is fine but it's a bit of a religous debate. You can save some $$ and just buy lava sleeves for your plug wires, nothing else under the hood really gets hot enough to worry about. I've got 2" Kooks LTs (catless), no coating just because of the cost and added wait time, and I've had no problems. OEM plug wires without sleeves at this point. The Kooks fit so well the plug wires aren't all that close to the runners.
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OP here all coating is not the same some are cheap and will not last maybe a year & that coating will also crack & do crazy crap. Make sure & see what the heat that the guy is putting onto them is good for. The good stuff is like the guy above is telling you will last for a good long time & not chg color.. Robert
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Ceramic coating is the way to go. The coating helps retain the heat within the header, which helps keep the exhaust velocity up. Higher velocity equals better scavenging, scavenging is why you use headers in the first place. You can also have the inside of the header coated as well for more heat retention. From experience using header wrap; the stuff works great, only drawback is it retains moisture when cool and rots out metal, but with stainless this shouldn't be an issue. My experience was with chrome plated headers, within two years they were junk.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
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Lucky for me I did not scratch the crap out of my coating , I do have to say mine is pretty hard stuff
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I've run them coated and not, prefer them coated mostly to keep them looking good too and have never had them chip.
This reminds me, the current GS needs headers and you people just cost me money.
This reminds me, the current GS needs headers and you people just cost me money.