Anybody else's headers look like this?? Pics....
 

they looked like this when i bought the car... it's digusting i know, but i was just wondering if anybody else's looked like this and if these are no good anymore or if they just need a good cleaning?!
they are pacesetter's btw.... thanks

Were they ever coated?

Sadly mine do, Edelbrock LT's with Ti-Coating..

obviously not, to be honest that looks hilarious:lol: haha HAHA sucks to be you..jk just get some rust thinner and take them off and get the mcoated. But remember you gotta clean them once a year to prevent rust

prob a dumb question but how do i get them coated?
and if i dont get them coated then will they eventually get holes in them?

and i apparently they never were coated... but idk

just contact jet-hot and they should coat them for around 100 dollars. With the way that rust looks you never know but that looks bad, just go to autozone and get some rust thinner and spray the shit out of the mand see how well you can get it all off, but in the long run youre going to want to get them coated because they'll go right back to the way they are now

the amount of trouble taking those off, then paying for coating... you might as well get a new set that are already coated IMO...

kinda what i was thinking.... because i would have to get a local shop to take them off anyway and i would imagine it wouldnt be too cheap...

You can get you a nice set of BBK LT's that are ceramic coated along with an ORY pipe for $499

I've got them and they are really nice quality and fitment...

mine are hedman uncoated and yes they look similar but not as bad.

yea that is true, it's whatever you wanna do, either way yooure going to pay a shop to remove them in both circumstance ans will be paying more to buy new ones

Get stainless. Wont have to worry about that.

those look horrible!!! i was gonna buy some un-coated lts for the lt1 but not anymore!

Those were coated, you can tell by the parts that haven't rusted yet. Their uncoated headers are painted black, so there would be black paint somewhere on them if they were uncoated.

I have seen two sets of coated pacesetters do that in person. I guess rain will do that to them.

If it was mine I'd just keep driving them until they rust through.. then get a stainless steel set. really not worth it at all to take them off or bother doing anything to them unless you are replacing them with SS ones.

Yeah you're right.... i found the part # looked them up on Summitt and turns out they were coated... how they got that bad i have no idea, but like i said thats how they were when i bought the car... i guess the bastard who had the car before me didn't take care of them very well.... i'm afraid they are leaking and if not already they will be soon... but i dont really have the cash to get new ones just yet so i guess i'll get some rust cleaner and see how well i can clean them up and go from there..... :/

wow than never buy summit racing headers if those were coated!! that's ridiculous

I've had many sets of uncoated headers and never had one rust through. I've had one set that was coated and it ended up like those.
Those in the pic were coated. And theres a leak on the pass side O2 bung.

I wouldn't worry about them rusting through. I had some Edelbrock uncoated headers on my 1990 Camaro for 7 years, they were rusted pretty bad put worked perfectly. Scratch them with a screwdriver and you will see that it is probably just thick surface rust. Also, if the rust can only be seen if you get under the car or open the hood I wouldn't worry about it, but if you can see the rusted header standing 10-20 feet from the car then I would probably just spray that section that can be seen with some black hi-temp paint every once in a while. No use of throwing away good headers.

If your going gto spend that much go with the XS/LPP Stainless headers. They will hold up longer than a coated or uncoated one would. Deff worth the extra $$$ because you dont have to worry abotu taking them off and getting them coated, or spraying them with shit. STainless dumdumdum.