The cost of a diy ceramic coating the time spent prepping the vehicle and application is far less costly than repairing rust damage.
Ceramic header coating rusty.
Nitroplate bright is a highly polished aluminum ceramic coating capable of withstanding 1300 degrees.
Mine were a rusty mess in less than a year and now a few years later the coating is flaking off everywhere.
If not for the oil all over the passenger side from the rear main leak they d be pretty close to perfect.
Some natural headers come with a polished finish.
Giant finishing demonstrates how they polish ceramic coated headers.
High temp paint is also available to protect them from rust.
Wrapping it up.
My basic dynomax ceramic coated headers maybe it s jet hot i forget but whatever dynomax sold in 95 are still in good shape.
So is applying a ceramic coating solely to protect your car from corrosion and rust worth it.
These headers will look good out of the box.
Nitroplate can convert that rust to something shiny by jeff smith springtime means getting the car out of.
Natural headers are not protected by any coating this means they are usually the least expensive.
The type of steel used to make them may have some rust resistance.
Time to give jet hot a call and tell them you need your headers re coated they allegedly have a 20 year warranty on the coating.
Next time i want coated headers i ll buy the plain ones and send them to jethot.
Nitroplate coating significantly reduces the outside surface temperature of the header thereby decreasing engine compartment heat.