scooter k

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I had all my turbo pipes, hot/cold, all ceramic coated. Anyway some where along the process my pipes all got coated the wrong color. I wanted them black and they all got coated a silver gray. Then now look like a primer gray. Since they are coated for 2500 degrees they have a rough texture too. I contacted the company and they won't redo them without being paid again. I was thinking of putting a light coat of VHT paint on them. Do you think it will stick at all?
I'm going to wrap some of them with header wrap so those won't really matter but the cold side pipes that are visible I'd like to have a different color. Maybe I should just have them blasted and powder coated or something.

dell

The cold side pipes don't get all that hot. I've gotten away with regular 500F engine paint on a couple of my cars for several years without any kind of issues. I'd just scuff them up and make sure they're clean then paint them any color you'd like. Hot side I'd just wrap and call it done.

Question. Who made the mistake in color on the coating? If it was the company that made the mistake i'd be ringing the phone off the hook and burning up the owners e-mail until I got a positive responsive.

mpatton

I agree if you specified black and they fucked em up id be up their *** until they redid them....

scooter k

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It was a well known company. It took about 4 weeks to get them done. I really don't have the time to wait another 4 weeks so I gave up on pushing it.

mpatton

I don't see why it would hurt anything to spray on top of it.

DeltaT

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I wouldn't - the ceramic coating needs to radiate heat to live. If you paint on the hot side stuff, it will burn off and end up looking worse and possibly screwing up the ceramic coat. No thermal tape on top of ceramic either - ask me how I know

Jim

scooter k

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Ok! Tell me how you know!

DeltaT

iTrader: (5)

Cuz I did it and messed up part of my headers

Jim

LS1NOVA

iTrader: (12)

You could get some more ceramic paint from Techline, spray it on yourself and cure it with engine heat. Scuff lightly with scotchbrite first.

KILLER-LS1

iTrader: (18)

i put a small dent on my old turbo kit hot side that scratched the ceramic. I sprayed some high temp black paint over it and it worked perfectly!