Mornin' all

I'm cinsidering having my headers and collector pipes ceramic coated.

Has anyone done this and are the benefits worth the expense?

Cheers

TC

Reasoning is twofold:
1. Underbonnet temps
2. I want my headers etc to be black.

Hmmmm......

Just a thought, and hopefully someone will comment ref how robust, if you just want them black could they not be chemi-blacked?

Ive seen this done on industrial machine tools and it looked good but dont have experience of it in high temp environments. i seem to think there is another blacking process as well but cant remember the name. One is more robust than the other iirc.

In one of my previous jobs I tested ceramic coatings on offshore drill bit nozzles. I was very impressed indeed. On one sample a piece of aluminium bar, was coated in a white ceramic. The coating was very thin yet even a knife could not make a scratch in the surface and I mean pushing down on the blade! I then got some aluminium nozzles made (coated on the insides) and flowed abrasive mud though them, incredibly after hours of service they withstood the abrasion as well a steel nozzles. So these coatings although sounding rather improbable do sometimes work miracles.

I know John Beardmore (JB on here) has used ceramic coating on his pistons, and I "think" on his Minor's exhaust.

John's website

Wrap under the bonnet and BBQ paint from B&Q.

Worked fine on my Avon and black finish was tough and lasted.

Faded a bit, but 2 minutes to spray again.

http://www.mytigeravon.co.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=615

Pat...