What color to pain headers??? gimme you input.

[bjl95mustang]

Ok, my engine block and intake are painted aliminum color. I have aluminum heads. and the rest of the brackets and upper intake are black. What color should I paint my headers? I was planning on aluminum color but I was thinking should I do a color that stands out? Give me you input on what might look cool.

Brandon

 

[S/CBlack95GT]

Umm, I dont think any paint will hold up to the temperature headers see. Those things can get well over 1000 degrees at WOT. I would get them ceramic coated.

 

[bjl95mustang]

I'm going to use the 1200F paint. These are just to get me by for a while till i save up for some kooks. How would blue look?

 

[BlueOvalStangGT]

I just painted mine today in an alluminum color. Thing is the primer I used is only the 500* one, think im ****ed?

 

[S/CBlack95GT]

Anything but chrome or ceramic will be short lived. I had my headers glowing red in my garage once by simply holding the revs at 3000rpms for about 5 mins.

 

[stang_dan]

FUNNY STORY

my buddy has a 87 monte carlo with a very nice 355 in it and he wanted to paint his headers.
he spent all day masking it off buying this nice paint high temp and painting them prefect.

started it up and it last like .3334 of a second and was all burnt off lol that blows

hope yours hold

dan

 

[bjl95mustang]

Well, right now anything is better that rust colored. if it burn off it burns off. But they will look good before i start the car atleast.

 

[bjl95mustang]

And a fyi i just got dont sand blasting them. so i'm not painting over the runst surface.

 

[91LX_5L]

black anything else will look weird/ugly after a couple months more then likely. make sure do prep it proper and do some good coats.

 

[GRGT1994]

That seems like a lot of work for something you will be ripping out down the road anyway. Maybe you should just polish something?

 

[bjl95mustang]

The took me not that long to blast. and i allready have a nice black coat of high temp on them

 

[urban96]

black

 

[Zero Signal]

Chartruese with pink poka dots

 

[SeventyMach1]

Chartruese with pink poka dots

Yeah, that would stand out....

 

[bjl95mustang]

Man, i'm thinking i want to try blue. i think i will pain them tomorrow and see what they look like.

 

[94-302-vert]

I did that ages ago and it didn't last for beans... it was all burned off after driving for jsut 15 minutes... granted not on a mustang but on some cast iron manifolds for an 88 dakota when i was 18...

 

[rio95]

DO NOT paint them. I painted mine black with 1200 degree paint and it didn't last 1 min. It all flaked off and now there is a white powdery residue they keeps coming off of them and getting everywhere. I even sand blasted them which helps bond the paint. I was pissed.

 

[1slow95]

Use the VHT header paint! Mine still looks perfect after 250 miles, except for the scratches I put on it during the install.

 

[DARK-5.0]

Mike beat me to it. You want to use VHT's paint if you want to paint them. They look great time after time you run it.

Jeremy

 

[bjl95mustang]

I got some vht paint this afternoon and i just put the first coat on the first header.