Header with Jet-Hot coating lowers underhood temps
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Header with Jet-Hot coating lowers underhood temps
Mike Loving recently installed one of our stainless steel 6-plus headers on his car. Before installation, he had the header and all of the related heat shields coated with Jet-Hot ceramics (http://www.jet-hot.com/Pages/coatings.html), which lowers the underhood temps by about 30 to 50 percent.
Here are a few photos Mike took before installation.
We're thinking of offering the Jet-Hot coating as an option on our header if there's enough interest. Here's a link to more info on the header:
http://www.ricks2k.com/products/header.php
Here are a few photos Mike took before installation.
We're thinking of offering the Jet-Hot coating as an option on our header if there's enough interest. Here's a link to more info on the header:
http://www.ricks2k.com/products/header.php
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[QUOTE=lydas2000,Dec 30 2005, 02:48 PM] I was thinking of getting the header in the coming year. Any way to estimating what trhe additional cost would be?
Plus a silly question
Plus a silly question
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I don't doubt this HOWEVER...the question is as the manufacturer if you want to do this. The problem is that the more of the heat is now trapped in the manifold. This can have some positive and negative effects. Some of the negatives are placing the header under considerably more heat than it may have been designed for. Some people who have wrapped or coated headers have had no issues, others have had welds fail and cracks form. The question is, is the header designed to withstand the increased heat and how will long term reliability be impacted?
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A little off topic, but related to this. I was thinking about jet coating or wrapping my turbo manifold to reduce the underhood temps, but I am worried about cracking the manifold by keeping that much more heat inside of it. Anyone have any experience with coating/wrapping headers or manifolds?
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You don't want to wrap around a weld. The weld won't fail, but the metal on either side of it can/will crack over time. The heat has to go somewhere.
Wrapping a header will also decrease it's lifespan.
Wrapping a header will also decrease it's lifespan.
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I have a jet hot ceramic coated header on my GTI. It's been running for about 11 years. It's my experience that the ceramic is going to crack off long before the header sustains heat damage.