Ceramic coating or wrap?
Actually, the Swaintech coating is like a ceramic coating on crack. It's different than most (about 99%) of the other coatings out there, and is definitely worth a look. Check out their website.
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that is the cost of living in AK. was that shipping ground? if you want i can ask your shipping guy what he recomends for shipping that stuff (we ship parts all over the world).
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Thats ok. Shipping this out of state isnt really an option. This isnt an all out race application and im not going to spend 1k+ on coatings. Thanks for the offer but its not in the cards.
Anybody got pictures of this stuff on some hot parts that I could see?
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The pictures are on the Swaintech homepage, at the top on the right, under the words "Racing Tech Coatings". The SBC header and the turbine housing are coated with White Lightning.
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Verdad Gallardo I saw that but that's a really small picture. You can't see the texture that they reference in the description. I'm trying to see if this is the same stuff that I saw somewhere else.
If your pipes are stainless I'd probably just wrap as they will evantualy crack so you will have to reweld which will be a pain with coating. Been there done that. NEver again.
PolyDyn FTW!!! OP, not for you as its here in Houston, TX but there all i ever use. if you cant find a decent coating up there just wrap em. I use the exact same wrap at work but in huge sheets, we wrap the parts we weld to keep em hot. Wrap works very very well, despite what some people think.
PolyDyn FTW!!! OP, not for you as its here in Houston, TX but there all i ever use. if you cant find a decent coating up there just wrap em. I use the exact same wrap at work but in huge sheets, we wrap the parts we weld to keep em hot. Wrap works very very well, despite what some people think.
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Ya theres a shop an hour outside of town that does good work. Its like 300$ or so for the headers and all the piping, which is entirely doable for me.
How much of an external temp. difference is there between the Swaintech coating vs. wrapping? I had uncoated headers on my old 70 C-10 project and after wrapping them, it seemed like it was almost as cool under the hood as it was outside. However the wrap doesn't like oil or trans fluid spilled on it. That tends to cause a nice fire.
The header wrap reduces temps more than any of the coatings but I don't think it will last on the red hot bits, like the first 6" of your header or the main part of a log. The ceramic will. Ceramicoat grey or black is rated up to 1800 and is available almost anyplace that does powdercoating or plating. I used the grey and it still looks new.
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