High Heat Paint...

[tyler440]

have any of you guys ever tried this stuff?

http://shop.oreillyauto.com/productdeta ... yCode=3587

better yet it says you cant the domes of pistons... what would be the point of that?

[Bob Vehring]

Funny you brought that up, sprayed my VM pipes with it last night.
Didn't really hold up any better then any other paint I've used. I used it on my SRV last season. I used a air wire brush on them, then a rust desolver.
Paint company's now days are trying to cash in on the ceramic coating products like Jet Hot or Swain Tech but its nothing like it. To me it just makes the paint look dull and chalky.
Real Ceramic coatings are a dry powder that bonds to a part when heated in a 700 ( not a 400 powder coating oven) oven. The good stuff really works for preserving parts and cutting heat but it will change the tunning of your pipe slightly.
Racers sometimes have the dome of the piston Ceramic coated to help keep the heat ( which is HP) rather then bleeding off down the skirts, in the combustion chamber which is also sometimes coated. Often if sending parts out for coatings the piston skirt also gets a different coating of a graphite type to help with lubrication on the skirt. I've had better luck with it on 4 cy's then 2 cy's.
As for the heat retention of Ceramic coated parts, it does do it. I used to wrap the headers on our motorhome because you would really burn your leg on the side of the engine cover with standard headers. The wrap kept the heat down BUT, from picking up the rain and salt in winter ,the headers would rust out in a year. The Hookers came with Ceramic coating already on them, they have been on their 3 or so years and look like new, engine box is cool..

[tyler440]

im looking to paint the pipe on the srv we are getting going...

i have always sand blasted the pipes before i spray them with high heat paint... how come you use the rust desolver instead? i sprayed my vmax pipes pretty heavy and tired to heat cycle them the best i could.... the first 6 inches or so ended up flaking off but it is still black underneath so i call it good enough hahaha.... that stuff i put the link to is supposedly good to 2000*F i thought maybe it would be the way to go... advance auto in town has the 1500* stuff.... im gonna look around town a couple days and see what i can find... all we are getting here is rain anyways

[Bob Vehring]

Two reasons I don't sand blast pipes On the SRV but really most old sleds, the good pipes like Aaen or PSI are hard to find. Sand blasting takes away metal, so everytime you blast it, it gets thinner.
Now the real thing that bothers me is some pipes like factory SRV pipes, have parts welded inside of them. They also are always coated with oil and carbon inside. Because on 2 cy's the pulse wave travels back and forth in their, I always worried that some stray sand will get lost inside the pipe, then finally work its way loose sometime when the engine is running. Don't want that sand back inside the engine

[tyler440]

both valid points but i think im still gonna stuff a rag in the ends and blast it... the pipe is completly brown and i wouldnt be suprised if i find pin holes in it after i sand blast it

[sxr1000]

Duplicolor sells the best ceramic added paint and comes in colors,the pipes on my SXR are blue and have held up very well,that VHT paint from checker is not near as good of product,checker used to sell the duplicolor but they have for this other stuff now.