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Old Aug 31, 2008 | 12:54 AM
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What are people using to ceramic coat headers?

Right now I know of Jet HOT and HPC
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Old Aug 31, 2008 | 09:34 AM
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I use a place here in Ventura w w w.xtremeperformanceheatcoatings.com. Ask for Allan, he does mail order....and an incredible job.
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nitroplate is another i came across
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Old Aug 31, 2008 | 11:51 AM
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check them out.

The main reason I'm interested in coating them is to keep underhood temps down and to try to avoid the rear 02 sensors from going on me. Where I live they also stick the sniffer up the pipe so I need to keep cats functioning A-OK. Would coating the headers be enough or should I coat the down pipes and the cats? I've heard that coating the the cats too hot with the supercharger and risk melting the cats..

The catch is most of the advice i hear are from people that don't live in cold winter climates. I just don't want the winter snow to cool off the exhaust too much and anger the rear 02 gods
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Where I live they also stick the sniffer up the pipe so I need to keep cats functioning A-OK.
They do?
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Old Sep 1, 2008 | 10:03 PM
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Technically I'm from Cumberland county since when I graduated college I never moved residency from my parents house. Cumberland county does sniffer check.. depending on which place you go to. If I pick right I could probably get by w/o it
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I got whatever comes on the pacesetter headers and it's great. I'm running so hot i discolored my bumper but the headers still look great
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Old Sep 4, 2008 | 07:20 PM
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Thanks for the suggestions... Has any one hat their intermediate pipe and cats coated. Is this worth it or will it overheat the cats?
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No on both counts, imo.
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I am picking up my newly coated headers tomorrow!!! I have AEM headers which supposedly are coated.... After talking to the coater, he said there are many types of coatings which are all kinda called ceramic... Some are basically just expensive paint (like the AEM ones), some offer corrision prevention, some offer thermal benefits, some offer thermal and corrision together... Most off the self headers are just coated on the outside... Mine will have one coat on the inside and two on the outside!!!
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