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Old Jul 31, 2023 | 02:56 PM
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the coating on my ARH headers flaked off after 1/2 track day. I gave up on coating, I just wrapped them. Yep, the wrap will eventually mess up the stainless potentially, but I have not had an issue with the wrap yet.
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Old Jul 31, 2023 | 05:10 PM
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the coating on my ARH headers flaked off after 1/2 track day. I gave up on coating, I just wrapped them. Yep, the wrap will eventually mess up the stainless potentially, but I have not had an issue with the wrap yet.
Jeez, that’s horrible. Which company coated them?
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Old Aug 9, 2023 | 12:21 AM
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And I was thinking of taking mine off to have them coated.... With my uncoated headers, my crushing temps on the highway stay around 174-178 when ambient temps are close to 100 degrees and no more than 217 in stop/go city traffic. My trunk area is not much hotter than when I had the OE headers. However, I would have had them coated if I had to do the install again. Ive had coated headers on previous vehicles that held up well under duress.
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Old Aug 9, 2023 | 06:57 AM
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It's all about which exact coating you go with. When selecting mine, I dug deep into also the technical properties & specs.
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