Not a Christmas present, but good enough.

[ldr]

Coater called this morning and said they was ready.

 

[timo22]

Very nice..Hedman shorties? What type of coating? Who did it? About how much$ ?
I just bought a set for a project but got painted because the htc coated ones were really expensive.
I have a set of shorties on my Malibu that were painted,now rusty.. Maybe I should get the new set coated and put them on the Malibu and used the rusty ones on my low budget Bonneville build....timo22

 

[ldr]

The company is Performance Coatings from Joplin MO. They are polished ceramic. Price was 140.

 

[timo22]

Thanks for the info. They look awesome and the price sounds really good. Did you have to sandblast them or did you send painted ones?

 

[ItsnotaGN]

Those look like the "D" port ones I have for the LT1. Which will need coated after I weld air tubes and an EGR port in them because emissions .

 

[ldr]

Yes they are for D ports. timo22 I bought them new and let the coating company prepair them how they wanted them. He said whatever Hedman uses on them is pain to get off.

 

[Injectedcutty]

Yes they are for D ports. timo22 I bought them new and let the coating company prepair them how they wanted them. He said whatever Hedman uses on them is pain to get off.

Hedman uses a baked on enamel paint just for storage purposes. I recall reading about it when before I had mine coated, and it said the paint would begin to burn off after several heat cycles.

 

[ldr]

He said he had to heat them up to 500* to get it to turn loose. They had the black paint on them.

 

[Injectedcutty]

Sounds about right, my coater had the same issues when he did mine a few years back.

 

[Longroof79]

My old Blackjack headers actually came coated with latex paint. I recall stripping them down and painting them with VHT enamel heat paint. This was before ceramic coatings were introduced. I still have the headers, but can use a fresh coating. Of course, they're no longer being made...similar to Dynamax...which also is out of production.
They are a bit rusty looking, but I like the way they fit. ..probably worth ceramic coating them.