15 year old pacesetters...recoat?
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15 year old pacesetters...recoat?
This weekend during my head install i noticed my pacesetter longtubes are rusting. they were originally ceramic coated but prob 15 years old. im on the fence of buying a new set or trying to clean these and put a coat on them ive seen some promising things about VHT header coating. Has anyone tried recoating their headers?
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If you want to save $$ and don't mind the hassle, I'd just sand and recoat.
If you don't want to bother, buy a set of Speed engineering stainless and be done with it.
If you don't want to bother, buy a set of Speed engineering stainless and be done with it.
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My TA has a set of 14 year old 1 3/4 primaryJet-Hot coated Hooker LT's that are quietly rusting like an old Dodge on a warm summer night. Thought about recoating but decided its a good excuse to replace the old headers with a spiffy new set of 1 7/8 primay LT's. Another opportunity to upgrade!
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To me, the answer depends on several unstated factors. How serious is the rust? Just surface that could be sanded off? Or is this a cancer case? How often is the car driven? In what kind of conditions?
For example, if it's Arizona car that's just driven on weekends and the rust is just surface stuff, you could clean them up and VHT them and they might last another 10 years.
For example, if it's Arizona car that's just driven on weekends and the rust is just surface stuff, you could clean them up and VHT them and they might last another 10 years.