Are my Kooks headers supposed to rust like this?
Originally Posted by GeorgeR@kooks
As for the headers WE STAND BEHIND ALL OUR PRODUCT I need to know who ordered them so I can pull the original sales order and look into this please call me at 631 586 9002 ext 308 George R So I can take care of this matter thanks again
great to see a company stand behind the product.
So why are my headers rusting so bad? Fran Schatz ordered them, his shop is on Ridge Road in Clayton, Delware. He's always talking about a distributor so i dont know if he ordered them directly from you or from another person. I'll find out later tinight. Thanks for replying though.
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Originally Posted by Shawn MacAnanny
So why are my headers rusting so bad? Fran Schatz ordered them, his shop is on Ridge Road in Clayton, Delware. He's always talking about a distributor so i dont know if he ordered them directly from you or from another person. I'll find out later tinight. Thanks for replying though.
LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS YOU CAN SO WE CAN TAKE CARE OF THIS
Man that is a bad situation, BUT you should have been more knowlegable about your product that was being purchased, never trust some shadetree mechanic to order your stuff much less install it, this isn't the 60's and they just can't be trusted. That is an install I'm sure you could have done yourself just would have taken a little more efford. " The air is salty so your headers rusted" I would have smack the **** out of that dude, I think your lucky KOOKS is a quality company this could have been worst.
stainless does rust this is a farce that is does not ask any company what will happen when youo stick anything stainless steel in saltwater for about 20 mins that let it sit over night, RUSTED!!!! Thats why i got JET HOTS garunteed for life against rust
stainless does rust this is a farce that is does not ask any company what will happen when youo stick anything stainless steel in saltwater for about 20 mins that let it sit over night, RUSTED!!!! Thats why i got JET HOTS garunteed for life against rust
Originally Posted by madmo
Man that is a bad situation, BUT you should have been more knowlegable about your product that was being purchased, never trust some shadetree mechanic to order your stuff much less install it, this isn't the 60's and they just can't be trusted. That is an install I'm sure you could have done yourself just would have taken a little more efford. " The air is salty so your headers rusted" I would have smack the **** out of that dude, I think your lucky KOOKS is a quality company this could have been worst.
yeah thanx if u think im a shade tree mechanic i gurantee i forgot more about ls1's than u even know...... i ordered him the right stuff there the correct parts...... i have a feeling its from shawn car sitting out side and from it being so dirty all the time.....his driveway is about a half mile long gravel drive way..... and everytime his car has been to my shop it is COVERED in gravel dust.... and im sure getting wet and stuff thats not good for any parts on the car let alone the headers..... and it sits for weeks at a time and none of that can be burned off so i think its a combination of a few things.....
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Originally Posted by dnm12
stainless does rust this is a farce that is does not ask any company what will happen when youo stick anything stainless steel in saltwater for about 20 mins that let it sit over night, RUSTED!!!! Thats why i got JET HOTS garunteed for life against rust
Originally Posted by dnm12
stainless does rust this is a farce that is does not ask any company what will happen when youo stick anything stainless steel in saltwater for about 20 mins that let it sit over night, RUSTED!!!! Thats why i got JET HOTS garunteed for life against rust
its pretty common place with ANYONE ive ever seen with jet hot coated headers.
maybe the coating doesnt rust, but its so thin that maybe the rust bleeds through?
Originally Posted by TJ
i dont know how lucky you get, but jet hot coating will still rust on the bottom of the headers where it sees raod film, rain, oils, whatever.
its pretty common place with ANYONE ive ever seen with jet hot coated headers.
maybe the coating doesnt rust, but its so thin that maybe the rust bleeds through?
its pretty common place with ANYONE ive ever seen with jet hot coated headers.
maybe the coating doesnt rust, but its so thin that maybe the rust bleeds through?
yeah my jet hots are rusted pretty bad..... im getting a set of kooks soon.... my hookers are a few years old.....
Originally Posted by Frans96SS
yeah thanx if u think im a shade tree mechanic i gurantee i forgot more about ls1's than u even know...... i ordered him the right stuff there the correct parts...... i have a feeling its from shawn car sitting out side and from it being so dirty all the time.....his driveway is about a half mile long gravel drive way..... and everytime his car has been to my shop it is COVERED in gravel dust.... and im sure getting wet and stuff thats not good for any parts on the car let alone the headers..... and it sits for weeks at a time and none of that can be burned off so i think its a combination of a few things.....
if you installled the right parts, so be it. but i see you placing the glame on the customer, when indeed it may just be a bad batch of materials.
Man, that sucks!
Stainless will get suface rust (but damn), but I've only seen it when next to, or exposed to salt water. Even your sparkplugs are coroded pretty bad. I also see some other hardware in you engine bay with rust on it so it's not just your headers, seem's like you are exposed to salty conditions and it's got into your engine bay somehow. I don't know man .
Stainless will get suface rust (but damn), but I've only seen it when next to, or exposed to salt water. Even your sparkplugs are coroded pretty bad. I also see some other hardware in you engine bay with rust on it so it's not just your headers, seem's like you are exposed to salty conditions and it's got into your engine bay somehow. I don't know man
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Originally Posted by TJ
how does dust turn into rust, or am i missing something?
if you installled the right parts, so be it. but i see you placing the glame on the customer, when indeed it may just be a bad batch of materials.
if you installled the right parts, so be it. but i see you placing the glame on the customer, when indeed it may just be a bad batch of materials.
there is absolutly no blame on the customer im just saying the dust could be doing something to the headers i really have no idea.... it also could be the material but people on here are saying its my fualt and its deff is not at all....
The Magnaflow stainless mufflers we had installed on my brother's C6 have started to get some mild rust and pitting on them. It's not bad, but it's definately not surface rust. There are some bumps and pitting, and it's very difficult to polish off. This is on the polished end caps too. I was always under the impression that those grades of stainless don't rust either, and these mufflers are polished so I'd imagine they'd have to actually be stainless. Just food for thought. 
Ok for the last time guys, the spark plugs are NOT coroded, it's dialetric gel in combination with the close picture i took it looks like corrosion but they're not. Fran did order the right parts so i can't put any blame on him. That's why i posted the messsage to see if maybe there were some error and reason to my headers rusting. My car does stay pretty dirty all the time which i would consider the dirt being a contributing factor if it hapened to any other part of my exhaust. This only happened on the headers though so i dont think it's the dirt. I had a Set of Jet Hots and while they did gather rust and such (bought them used almost 2 years old), they looked much better than my kooks headers. If i had known the kooks would have done this i would have definately gone with coated headers.
wow i am amazed how angry you all get sorry i was talking on the phone while typing, to the point:
surface rust is normal, i live by the ocean in a the real northern california like 60 miles south of OR, but stainless rusts bad! At least in this weather and when i go spearfishing anything with a stainless finish rusts. The reason i got Jet Hots if they rust through they will replace them.
surface rust is normal, i live by the ocean in a the real northern california like 60 miles south of OR, but stainless rusts bad! At least in this weather and when i go spearfishing anything with a stainless finish rusts. The reason i got Jet Hots if they rust through they will replace them.
Something is not adding up...there is no way that those are only 4 months old and stainless. I dont believe that for one second. You loose your car in the Ocean or something man? then fish it out a year later?
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i've got the same set on my car. i live in the country where they put more salt on the roads than there is snow and mine arent' rusted at all. i've had them for bout 5k miles. you must have not gotten stainless