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Ceramic coating



Sorry I misunderstood. I thought he was looking for a place to have headers and the like ceramic coated.
 


thanks Toasty...I get Eastwoods catalog all the time.....

I have heard of Jet Hot..but have also read of some articles where it peels off...hmm.

for me its a toss up. I like the fact I can do it myself....BUT..I dont have an old elec oven...just the one we use to cook food in the kitchen.....

maybe I should post a wanted add for an old oven.
 
check your local appliance dealer (not a box store) they get stoves all the time where the oven is fine, but the burners are junk or it looks like crap, and will either give it to you or sell it cheap
 
I thought Jet-Hot gave a lifetime warranty. I almost used them one. Zoofactory is who ZZP uses, when something needs ceramic coated.

On large items, especially ones requiring media blasting and acid dipping that a DIY would work very well. Or as with headers getting a good coating on the inside.

If you try this and it works out well, please give updates.
 
There is a local place to me called PRO-STRIP and they offer a lot of performance coatings and such. Some of the stuff is pretty price, they have some really high $$$ exhaust coating that is much better than the black and chrome finishes and cost me around $250 for a front header and crossover pipe! Not cheap but it works and was told hands down for really high exhaust temps it was the best route to go, but again expensive. They also have coatings for pistons and anything else you can imagine, even powdercoating complete race car chassis as I have a few friends who have used them numorous times for that.
 


DIY, check out Columbia coatings.

But IMHO, it's not really DIY. You have to bake it at a higher temp than most residential ovens will go. Most ovens wouldn't be big enough anyway. Although maybe you can spray it, and find a local place with a coating oven to cure it for you.
 
we have heat treat ovens here at my work..maybe I would be able to use one on the weekend...

Thanks guys!
 
If you can let me know. ZZP's place wants $300+ to do the headers I fabbing up for my car. That's more than Jet-Hot, for what seems to be a pretty generically available coating.
 
I dont know the truth to this but my local shop Pro-Strip claims that Jet hot does not complete coat the inside of the tubes, just what you can see or what they can get to spraying through the outside. At Pro-Strip they have a wand that they run all the way through the tubes to make sure the interior of the pipe is 100% coated as well as the outside and he said this is one downfall of the JetHot coatings. Smaller local shops certainly are expensive but sometimes knowing the right guy helps also from what I hear as I know a few people that get things dirt cheap over there.
 


wow Dave that is disappointing to hear about Jet-Hot since they have such a large following amongst the hot rod gang. I thought they dipped too, but obviously that can't be true. I need to see if I can find the info they sent me a couple years ago.
 
I have heard the same on jet hot (they used to be the best, but got their name out, and I think goit to busy, and had to shortcut)
 
now I was thinking, and did a bit of reading on camaro sites, and most of the issues with failing coating are having used headers done, and they aren't cleaned well, so would a home kit also have that issue? Can you get the piece clean enough to coat it at home without quality issues?
 
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