Coating the exhaust manifold

latief · Post by **latief** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:14 pm

I just bought a used exhaust manifold to replace the cracked one on my car , can i repaint it ? if yes, what is recommended?

thanks,

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:28 pm

"Paint" will only last so long before it burns off.....
Ceramic coating's are the way to go for prolonged life and HP....

latief · Post by **latief** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:29 pm

BlackRoseRacing wrote:"Paint" will only last so long before it burns off.....
Ceramic coating's are the way to go for prolonged life and HP....

Easily done? and where do you get the ceramic coating?

thanks,

NickKo · Post by **NickKo** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:09 pm

Hey Latief,
You should have known that I would be responding to this thread, huh ??

Here are a couple of other great products to use for coating exhaust manifolds. I've used them both and they work great, if you follow directions:

Eastwood:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?item ... SubCat=787

Restomotive Laboratories (POR-15)
http://www.por-outlet.com/shop/index.ph ... 4f40ddb87b

The PO5-15 products are AWESOME stuff.

-Nick

latief · Post by **latief** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:20 pm

NickKo wrote:Hey Latief,
You should have known that I would be responding to this thread, huh ??

Here are a couple of other great products to use for coating exhaust manifolds. I've used them both and they work great, if you follow directions:

Eastwood:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?item ... SubCat=787

Restomotive Laboratories (POR-15)
http://www.por-outlet.com/shop/index.ph ... 4f40ddb87b

The PO5-15 products are AWESOME stuff.

-Nick

I was hoping you were going to respond!!!

i will look into these...thanks!!!

Post by **occasional demons** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:39 pm

Or if you really want to spend $
http://www.hpcoatings.com/am/products/p ... _heat.aspx

http://www.jet-hot.com/Pages/coatings.html

I know that HPC coats inside and out. The benefit of inside is that the heat is retained inside the mani. for better velocity/part life. But i would think you will drop atleast a $100 bill to get it done. It may be less with a puny Neon part though. IIRC thats about what it was for two BB chrysler shorty headers a while back.

NickKo · Post by **NickKo** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:04 pm

occasional demons wrote:IIRC thats about what it was for two BB chrysler shorty headers a while back.

Hey, another 'old school' RB Mopar guy on this board, COOL !!

I've used both the Eastwood and the POR-15 products on Big-Block, Small-Block, and Slant Six exhaust manifolds and it works well as long as you sandblast first.
I haven't tried the HPC stuff, but from their description it sounds awesome.

-Nick

latief · Post by **latief** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:14 am

Thanks guys, i will look for a cheap option

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:19 am

For what it's worth....

I had HPC coat my 2.2 long tube header for $110.00. This was about 10 years ago however....

ewetho · Post by **ewetho** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:02 am

Seen the Jet-Hot stuff first hand and even had to clean it when a valve cover on a Kharmin Ghis leaked all over it while going down the strip.

AWESOME product. Also saw a black coated set for a Old Type II bus and it lasted 2 years and looked new. Lost track after that.

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:31 am

how do you apply that por 15 or whatever it was...

is it applied using a brush or do you have to mix and spray it? looks like a god deal. the ole turbo manifold could use a freshening up!

Jay

NickKo · Post by **NickKo** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:12 pm

Jamie wrote:how do you apply that por 15 or whatever it was...

is it applied using a brush or do you have to mix and spray it? looks like a god deal. the ole turbo manifold could use a freshening up!

Jay

You can brush or spray it.

BUT if you spray it, you have to use *their* (POR-15) thinner.

For this reason, I normally just brush it. Especially for stuff like an exhaust manifold.....

Now, if you're going to put it on parts that are visible outside of the car (like rims), I'd spray it on.
I sprayed some POR-15 on a set of original (old Mopar) Ralley rims and topcoated them with Argent Silver paint .... worked great.

-Nick