Has anyone ever painted their down pipe before? If so what type of paint did you use?

 

high temp black paint

 

Same here. High temp black paint.

 

High-Temp flat black (bbq black) 500 deg or 1200 deg if its available for you.

 

is the paint holding? or is it chipping/ melting?

 

1200 degree paint on everything, it holds very very well. goto Wal-Mart and get it, I think its like 3 bucks a can, which 1 can lasted me a manifold, downpipe, and half my intercooler piping.

 

ive tried it all...and they will all burn off or discolor. powder coat it and it will stay for ever

 

Same here, it flakes off

 

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Haha, yeah, the grill paint seems to hold up a bit better.

 

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por-15 makes paint specifically for mani's and dp's. good up to 1400. its brush on too. not thin spray on.(altho you can spray it if you choose)

a few ppl on turboD16 have had excellent results with it so i went and ordered some. its expensive compared to walmart spray paint, but no were near the cost of those professional coatings.

i haven't used mine yet, since the ebay seller who i won a manifold from flaked on me ..jerk

-Luke

 

I've actually have very good results with the BBQ paint from walmart, my exhaust manifold is still silver and my down pipe is still black.

 

I painted mine with high temp ceramic look paint. It has held up pretty well. I think it is 1200 or 1400 not sure.

 

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Same here...

 

clean/degrease and sand lightly before spraying. lasts forever

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lkailburn &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">por-15 makes paint specifically for mani's and dp's. good up to 1400. its brush on too. not thin spray on.(altho you can spray it if you choose)

a few ppl on turboD16 have had excellent results with it so i went and ordered some. its expensive compared to walmart spray paint, but no were near the cost of those professional coatings.

i haven't used mine yet, since the ebay seller who i won a manifold from flaked on me ..jerk

-Luke</TD></TR></TABLE>


Por's high temp **** sucks. My buddy used the 2000degree silver stuff on his manifold and it cracked/chipped off very nicely. I would just use some flat black bbq paint and just touch it up when it needs it, blending flat black is as hard as scratching my ***. MY .02

 

haha. nice analogy at the end.

well i already payed the money for it. so i'll give it a whirl. i think it all depends on prep technique(as stated above by someone else).
a guy on turboD16 has painted 3-4 mani's with it. never once had it crack or burn of?

 

when I get my turbo kit in...the first thing Im doing is going downtown in honolulu and get my manifold powder coated...for $40 bucks.

if its small enough to fit in the oven they dont charge much at all and the coating is pretty en-expensive. hell if you dont mind your birthday cake tasting like paint then have them coat it and bake in your own oven. If I had enough room I would buy an old oven just for baking my stuff.

another cool thing about powder coating is they can coat the inside also to give it a smooth flow (untill all the carbon builds up atleast)

 

you want ceramic coating. not powder coating for your manifold.

powder coating is a chemical process..think about how hot your oven gets..then think about how hot your manifold gets...

 

Thanks for all of your help I think I am going to paint it first and see how that works. I got some 1200 paint...

Thanks for all of your help..

 

for everyone that had the paint flake off, did u paint it and let it sit over night? Your suppose to paint it, let it dry then within acouple hours either let ur engine run or bake it in the oven or it wont set right.

 

I prefer the ugly bare metal look. I also kept the jcwhitney sticker on there too, looks pretty cool all burnt lol.

 

why not wrap it in exhaust wrap then spray it with hi temp paint?

 

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Doesn't that exhaust wrap keep moisture in and rust out the piping? I saw a set of headers on this very clean engine once and the headers were all rusted off with exhaust wrap on it. Maybe if u painted it first it would seal it better.