Ceramic Header Coating Rusty

These headers will look good out of the box.

Ceramic header coating rusty.

My basic dynomax ceramic coated headers maybe it s jet hot i forget but whatever dynomax sold in 95 are still in good shape. I had a set of dynomax ceramic headers that had about 30 of the coating fall off each tube but before the coating fell off it did like yours are doing now with little spots of rust popping up. Wrapping it up. They wouldn t happen to be hooker headers with their factory ceramic coating would they.

Natural headers are not protected by any coating this means they are usually the least expensive. Time to give jet hot a call and tell them you need your headers re coated they allegedly have a 20 year warranty on the coating. Mine were a rusty mess in less than a year and now a few years later the coating is flaking off everywhere. If not for the oil all over the passenger side from the rear main leak they d be pretty close to perfect.

Some natural headers come with a polished finish. High temp paint is also available to protect them from rust. Nitroplate bright is a highly polished aluminum ceramic coating capable of withstanding 1300 degrees. So is applying a ceramic coating solely to protect your car from corrosion and rust worth it.

Giant finishing demonstrates how they polish ceramic coated headers. Next time i want coated headers i ll buy the plain ones and send them to jethot. The cost of a diy ceramic coating the time spent prepping the vehicle and application is far less costly than repairing rust damage. I would have contacted them to get my headers re done if one of my.