Painting exhaust pipe

[Shftatsix]

My exhaust pipe and silencer were getting kinda rusty so i sanded and painted them today with Krylon BBQ/stove paint rated up to 1200 degrees F, used 3 coats. Will this stand up to rocks chips for a while? or should i get a can of clear coat? do they make hi temp clear coat?

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[JohnR.]

It probably won't stand up to the heat on the head pipe, never mind the rock chips. The only thing I've seen that stands up to the temps besides chrome is getting it Jet-Hot coated or something similar to that. The silencer should be OK though.

John

[honda_atc200es]

i didnt even use high temp on my muffler and it still looks new =], the head pipe is a different story, i didnt even try that

[BigTBones]

i used Naval Jelly to get all the rust off of my pipe (250R). Then used Black Header paint from auto zone. I followed the directions that ended in 3 baking temps in my oven. Last one at 600 degrees. It looks great! I did scratch it with the tip of my boot dang it!

[Thorpe]

POR15 makes a high temp header paint that is pretty dang durable... If it were me, thats the route I would go...

[Tecate 50]

Yoy can also purchase high temp clear! (VHT) makes it. Pipe looks good...

[WIkid500]

Even better order some ceramic coating from Columbia coatings for 25 dollars spray and bake it. Once it's baked you steel wool it and polish it just like aluminum with a buffer. I did mine yesterday it turned out amazing for a rookie first timer.



Edit: oh yeah I baked mine in the gas grill, did the head pipe and muffler.

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[ScottZJ]

Well the grill type paint burns off usually the first ride or 2 esp if you are running in the heat. The engine paint is much better than that stuff and is at the auto stores too. I have to agree, that ceramic coating is the best looking possibility. I paid 70 to get my tecate DG pipe done that was turning a goldish color after years. I perfer the black look and dont care for all the bling bling. I think it turned out great....and nice smooth texture too.

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[Thorpe]

The shop I work in, we had a set of headers we built, ceramic coated black... (no, I dont mean just powder coated)

[Shftatsix]

Good lookin tecate pipe u got there Scott, I prefer the black look also. Is Columbia coatings what most people would recommend?

Unfortunatly it looks like im not going out for a few weeks here... so i guess ill have a bunch of time to order that stuff and re-coat it :( :lol:

:Edit: well $800-$1000 is out of my price range for a Columbia Coating spray dealybob. I guess ill try the POR15 stuff that Thrope suggested.
:Edit 2: hmm that Black Velvet by POR15 is only rated to 1200 just like the BBQ Krylon stuff... why is this better?

[JohnR.]

Look into having it coated professionally. I'd bet it won't cost much more than the $25 that it would cost to do it yourself and the results will be much more durable. The place that powdercoated my CalFab (www.jnzfinishing.com) does ceramic coating. I know of a few people that have had the exhaust manifold on their turbo Mitsubishis coated by JNZ and all of them have held up great. The temps seen by one of those exhaust manifolds are probably far greater than those generated by the trike engine.

John

[WIkid500]

The ceramic coat stuff is easy to spray, any old paint gun will spray it and it's water based. Super easy to clean up. You don't need some fancy set up to spray and bake ceramic coating.