non coated headers in canadian winter?
05-09-2009, 01:00 PM
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non coated headers in canadian winter?
Hey guys im geting ready to pull the trigger on headers and ORY. Gunna go with pacesetter LT's, but i gota a few questions.
I understand the rear 02 sensores not being used and im BB tuning them out, but do i need extensions for the front 02's being that the LT's are further away than the stock manifolds? or do they come with the extension?
Other thing is i live in Canada, i have seen some ceramic coated ones that rusted badly form the salt and crap, so should i save the money and just the the non coated ones and use some VHT high temp paint on them? If i paint them i could always take them off every so often, bead blast the old paint and paint them again. Taken that it's washed once a week and under carriage rinsed.
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Aaron
I understand the rear 02 sensores not being used and im BB tuning them out, but do i need extensions for the front 02's being that the LT's are further away than the stock manifolds? or do they come with the extension?
Other thing is i live in Canada, i have seen some ceramic coated ones that rusted badly form the salt and crap, so should i save the money and just the the non coated ones and use some VHT high temp paint on them? If i paint them i could always take them off every so often, bead blast the old paint and paint them again. Taken that it's washed once a week and under carriage rinsed.
Thanks guys!
Aaron
05-09-2009, 01:09 PM
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You just answered your own ??? Save up and get some nice stainless headers..Why waste your money on ones that will be trash in a year or so... Paints don't work and burns off withing a hours.. I don't give a **** what the company says. Do your self a favor and save up and get NICE stainless ones... Stainless is like diamonds FOREVER 
05-09-2009, 01:28 PM
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I just picked up some LPP headers which are stainless there about the same price as pacesetters aswell. Id go the same rout if I were you. Just my opinion tho.
05-09-2009, 01:42 PM
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Ceramic coating is best. I had Gibson "stainless" headers once. They rusted within 6 months. Junk! Stainless exhaust parts are never 100% stainless steel. My JBA ceramic coated headers still look like new after 4 years......in the northern climate too. Get ceramic or nothing.
05-09-2009, 04:52 PM
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I don't know how there holding up I think there too new, or at least until recently I haven't heard of anyone running them. You can read this thread about fitment but its only one account and may not speak about everyone's encounter. https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=440566
05-09-2009, 11:40 PM
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Even good stainless(uncoated) will discolour, but not rot. I just snapped a couple of shots of the Stainless Works headers I was running on my 5.3. This is after 3 Winnipeg winters. Plenty of salt used here. Second shot was after 60 seconds with a wire wheel so I guess they will clean up pretty easy.
