Your exhaust behind the headers will not get as hot as the headers and the paint will hold up quite well.
Painting aluminized steel exhaust.
I am not a fan of chrome on the track car so i used some of my spray painting skills to change.
June 06 2018 01 00 59 pm here in sunny kalifornia is there any advantage to painting new aluminized exhaust pipes other than the ll look pretty for awhile.
If you only take short trips the exhaust never gets hot enough to evaporate all of that moisture.
I paint all my aluminized exhaust kits with rustoleum high temp bbq grill paint.
It has held up well over the years.
Follow the directions on the high heat spray s label to complete the curing process.
We have 2k aerospray engine paint as well for paint gun free applications.
I do take the time to clean the exhaust and paint it prior install.
I use the brush on stainless steel header paint from eastwood.
If you thought the engine gets hot you should see the exhaust parts.
Headers are hardest on the paints.
I m too poor for the expensive stuff.
I ordered a new set of chrome tip muffler deletes from remark.
It s strange how that noise sounds eerily like a voice in my head ordering me to kill snookie.
Then i just touch up any scratches from install.
It has a much more dull appearance than stainless steel does.
Been very happy with this method.
I d go with the aluminized and paint the welded areas as well as the seams bends and it ll look good for quite a while.
Aluminized steel is not as aesthetically pleasing or as rust resistant as stainless steel.
The aluminized will take longer till you ll see rust but it will rust too.
To or not to paint aluminized exhaust on.
It has held up extremely well and has not chipped or flaked for me yet.
The hard part with exhaust painting is the expansion and contraction with the heat and cool makes the paint crack and flake.
Moisture collects inside the exhaust when it s cold.
Although aluminized steel is the better of the two money wise.
Then let the paint dry for 1 2 hours before moving on to the curing process.
In my basement you can hear water in the pipes.
Oem exhaust systems are typically aluminized steel and are way more common.
Our engine block paint comes in dozens of universal colors as well as oem shades such as old ford blue hemi orange and buick red.
That moisture causes the inside of the system to rust.
