stingray_76

wich is better, ceramic coated or chrome headers?? :confused:

Glutamine83

ceramic headers help keep the heat in the pipe and push that air out the rear..........definitely ceramic IMHO

77Dream

Ceramic lasts longer and keeps color better as well,

norvalwilhelm

Anything chrome plated suffers from hydorgen embrittlement and is prone to cracking. Ceramic coatings with heat retention is the only choice of the two.

Tominator

Yea what he said and it turns blue on the headers from heat.


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AlwaysWave

chrome for show.....ceramic for go :cheers:

theandies

Anybody know what happened to the Jet-Hot group purchase post.......MODS? :confused: :confused: :confused:

Boofers

What about stainless steel?

LATNC3

stainless will also blue and turn dark when heated!!!

Rod

Corey_68

Depends....

With all the chrome on my '68 the "Coated" headers would look REALLY dull. Even the new sterling finish is too dull to my liking. In the end I went with chome. I rather have them re-chomed in 8-10yrs than have the "coated" look, but that's me. You really can't go wrong with all three, even the black looks good. :thumbs:

Steve81

If you are talking about the Hooker Headers and Side Pipes, i just got mine last week and Chris @ JH honored the group purchase price - $940 SB less mufflers delivered. About $110 cheaper that the quote they gave me last year. Strange, I just read the post a few weeks ago when i was ordering but now i can seem to find it :confused:

Jughead

I'm unsure about Hooker's Ceramic-metallic coating. Here's a pic of their coated Super Comp's I bought used. Most of the coating around the collector now looks like primer paint and started peeping! :confused: I'm going with Jet-hot Hooker side mounts, they're cheaper than the chrome and this is a budget rebuild afterall! :rofl:

Fevre

Ya budget rebuild. :lol:

I had heard the hooker coating was not that great but to me those look like they where shot with high temp paint like the Edelbrocks in my Formula, the coating looks thin compared the dynomax coating on my vette.

Spook

How about CeramaChrome... http://www.performancecoatings.com ... (shameless plug) ... I actually just used these guys for a little bracket action at first see how it goes. I will make a post and show you all as soon as I get my parts back which are already on thier way after only a couple of short days with em. Whoot Whooot!

Spook
:reddevil

Alwyn678

:withstupid:

74 vert

I get a lot of good compliments concerning my Jet-Hot Hookers and the sound is great with the STS baffles.

WoodchuckH2

Performance Coatings is owned by Chuck Simpson who is a died in the wool gear head, national record holding drag racer and car builder. His work is fantastic and he is great to work with. A real shameless plug, Chuck was one of the developers of aluminum/ceramic coatings when he was with a well known national company and made further improvements when he was with Airborne Coatings. He now owns his own shop and his work will stack up with anyones. The newest coatings look like highly polished aluminum and its harder than Superman's kneecap.