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Received the most recent Eastwood catalog today and they have a new item that caught my interest. Do-it-yourself ceramic coating. For about 1/10th the cost, you flash sandblast your headers and spray the product on with an air brush or touch up gun. They are treated at start up.
It's supposed to reduce engine compartment temp. by up to 20%.
Too good to be true?
 
Probably not as good a coating as JetHot that coats the inside and outside fully then fires it at a high temperature. But probably better than header paint. If you have stainless headers, you can use header wrap to keep the temps down.
 
My JetHot headers run at 5-10 degrees below the same cars with a cast iron manifold and cool down dramatically faster. I'm going to measure some temps at Dyno Day this weekend. I just hope there is another TR6 to compare against.
 
DougF said:
Received the most recent Eastwood catalog today and they have a new item that caught my interest. Do-it-yourself ceramic coating. For about 1/10th the cost, you flash sandblast your headers and spray the product on with an air brush or touch up gun. They are treated at start up.
It's supposed to reduce engine compartment temp. by up to 20%.
Too good to be true?
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Don't forget that "up to 20%" also includes 1%.....

I'd pass...
 
if you want to reduce the underhood temperature, keep the heat inside the header, then you want a ceramic "heat barrier" coating which is much better at this tha jet-hot. look at the Swain website or HPC? coatings. you want the ones for "over 2000 degrees" rating.
Rob
 
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