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Title: whats the best heatproof paint for exhausts in the uk? Post by: beetletom on March 03, 2013, 21:32:11 pm started to bare metal my berg dual quietpack
need to paint it in somewthing which won't flake off am thinking about taking it to the local powdercoaters and asking them to put it in their oven to bake it on too. Title: Re: whats the best heatproof paint for exhausts in the uk? Post by: leec on March 03, 2013, 21:43:34 pm I had a buggy exhaust powder coated with a high heat resistant powder. It didn't flake when I owned it
Lee Title: Re: whats the best heatproof paint for exhausts in the uk? Post by: Matty c on March 03, 2013, 21:47:44 pm Hey Tom, I used Eastwood high temp paint from frost. It's satin black & so far is holding up nicely. I painted my t bird dual mufflers with it & I'm happy with it.
Matt. Title: Re: whats the best heatproof paint for exhausts in the uk? Post by: stait9 on March 03, 2013, 22:46:03 pm Hi
I recently bought a car where the exhaust had been powder coated with apparently high temp exhaust stuff. It was fine initially but after a good blast, it melted and burnt off leaving a real mess, but it had a hi-po engine and ran hot which might be why. I'm currently trying to find something similar and have come across this: http://www.zircotec.com/page/--performance-white/41 I have a friend who builds racing porsches and have asked him if he's heard of these guys or has an alternative. As soon as I know I'll let you know if you want. Cheers Stuart Title: Re: whats the best heatproof paint for exhausts in the uk? Post by: Neil Davies on March 04, 2013, 00:05:48 am Tom, I've just used BBQ paint in the past, and it's fine on the mufflers. It's got to go on in thin coats, and the mufflers have got to be clean, so maybe get them sandblasted first, then BBQ paint them straight after?
Title: Re: whats the best heatproof paint for exhausts in the uk? Post by: hotrodsurplus on March 04, 2013, 02:30:31 am It's not cheap like paint but Cerakote is the real deal ceramic coating. It's an ambient-cure finish meaning it requires no oven for curing. It's good to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (982 Celsius for the logical rest of the world). The best part is that it's available in tons of colors. No, I take that back: the best part is that it doesn't require oven curing and it works.
Cerakote also makes an oven-cure ceramic coating. It cures at 500F (260C) for an hour so any powder shop can cure it for you. The rep at the SEMA show assured me that there's no durability difference between the air-cured and oven-cured coatings. The primary difference is that the oven-cured coating is available in a high-gloss finish, to which I say big deal. It goes on as a liquid. As I understand it the material is self catalyzing. Water isolates the catalyst from the resins so as it evaporates the catalyst and resin bind and react. The rep maintains that there's no reason to pay anyone to ceramic coat anything unless you want to have someone else do it. And it costs a hell of a lot less than having someone ceramic coat parts by the conventional way. I know one person who's run it. It's been on for probably two years. The car doesn't see that much use (a few thousand miles a year) and the manifolds are even perfectly gray still. The only caveat is that the surface has to be absolutely clean and free of rust. But that's the case with any coating. The rep told me that a quart would do a pair of V-8 headers and then some--maybe even a whole exhaust system. I would imagine that a pint would do a Volkswagen header and muffler. A quart is $130 and a pint is $70. It also ships worldwide. www.cerakotehightemp.com (http://www.cerakotehightemp.com) |