Ceramic coated headers - worth extra cost?

[Immortality]

Pacemaker headers come with their own coating but I don't think it's a heat barrier coating? Any one have any experience with getting those re-coated?

 

[Lex]

The used MX5 header that I had coated needed alot of prep prior to coating, even after I had ground off and linished the tabs, then wire wheeled it, I believe they sand blasted it, gave it a chemical bath, then prepsoled it or something before it was ready for coating, I had the car for another 2 years after getting it coated and whilst it did get some stains and dulled out a bit, it never peeled off anywhere, that thing lived on redline, alot

Like any coating, I believe it is all in the prep work

When you got yours treated, did you get yours done on the inside, or just the outside?

 

[blackvxss]

Pacemaker headers come with their own coating but I don't think it's a heat barrier coating? Any one have any experience with getting those re-coated?

Pacemaker have there own company

Ceramic Australia​

I got them to coat a set of shorty 4>1 headers HSV i had on my Sv8(sick of scrapping headers) and they looked brand new when i sold the car. These are dipped so coating inside and out.

 

[Ginger Beer]

When you got yours treated, did you get yours done on the inside, or just the outside?

Inside and outside

 

[Ginger Beer]

Pacemaker have there own company

Ceramic Australia​

I got them to coat a set of shorty 4>1 headers HSV i had on my Sv8(sick of scrapping headers) and they looked brand new when i sold the car. These are dipped so coating inside and out.

All mine have been sprayed

Like this

 

[Immortality]

Pacemaker have there own company

Ceramic Australia​

I got them to coat a set of shorty 4>1 headers HSV i had on my Sv8(sick of scrapping headers) and they looked brand new when i sold the car. These are dipped so coating inside and out.

I'm in NZ so more likely to use one of our local places for coatings.

 

[07GTS]

All mine have been sprayed

Like this

looking at those piston coatings is the exact reason i got these guys to do those coatings to my heads intake/exhaust ports and valves/chamber, keeps the heat out of the head and the incoming airflow but keeps the heat within the chamber to make power and then push it out with less heat soak into the valves/heads/exhaust

 

[Anthony .]

Wouldn’t ceramic coating make the headers weaker since they get a lot hotter, or does that apply to header wrap only?
Was going to ceramic coat my headers, but couldn’t justify the cost since it is only going on my SV6 and I don’t plan on big modifications

 

[Forg]

Wouldn’t ceramic coating make the headers weaker since they get a lot hotter, or does that apply to header wrap only?
Was going to ceramic coat my headers, but couldn’t justify the cost since it is only going on my SV6 and I don’t plan on big modifications

The problem with wrap is trapping moisture inside hence promoting rust; that doesn’t happen with a ceramic coating. They don’t get hotter with a coating, in fact if you get the coating on the inside too they probably don’t get as hot (albeit without much difference).

 

[RevNev]

The problem with wrap is trapping moisture inside hence promoting rust

They used to wrap HQ race car headers to keep heat off the inlet manifold (202 red motor) and running on avgas that is much more corrosive than unleaded fuel, new headers could rust out under the wrap and collapse in less than 12 months. Ceramic coating remedied all the wrap/rust issues!