Dei s titanium wrap is resistant to chemicals and will retain its original color for the life of the wrap which can be three to five years.
Ceramic coating vs heat wrap headers.
These coatings made of aluminum powder mixed with ceramic dust are sprayed onto the header as a powder and then baked on in an oven.
Coating your headers in ceramic improves their heat resistance and keeps them from being tarnished or damaged by the heat.
Even better this highly specialized insulation blocks intense engine heat that can rob your ride of horsepower and damage engine components.
I know the summits are not the highest quality so i was thinking of the ceramic coated hooker headers but wondered if the coating contains the heat as much as header wrap.
The term ceramic coating is familiar to most car buyers today.
Header wrapping involves wrapping an insulating cloth around the primary tubes and collector.
Gasket ones and now the flotech deadsoft aluminum ones.
Stainless headers get around this problem by using a material that doesn t corrode in the first place.
You can t buy wrapped headers but it is easy to diy.
Ceramic coating is a clear coat which includes a liquid.
Even before delivery some take their new car for applying ceramic coating.
In other words ceramic coated headers look and function the same on mile one as they do on mile 300 000.
This is all in less than two months.
Header wrap is more expensive than high temp paint.
This forms a hard impermeable barrier that doesn t corrode.
It can also be done in your garage.
I have burned the cheap paper ones the slightly better mr.
But it is less expensive than ceramic coating.
Ceramic coatings take that a step further.
Wrapped headers are a popular choice for a lot of different.
Should i coat or wrap my exhaust.
Ending the debate of high temp coatings vs exhaust heat wrap.
The insulating properties of header wrap will help the scavenging process even more because unlike ceramic the material used in header wraps don t retain heat on the surface.