At 7:44 AM -0800 12/11/03, Navarrette, Vance wrote:
>As far as the ceramic coating of stainless goes, it is gilding
>the lily. I had some Edelbrock mild steel headers ceramic coated, and
>they were indestructible under normal usage. Not a spec of rot anywhere
>after 4 years. They were coated inside and out, however. So if you are
>only going to coat the outside, don't bother, since they rot from the
>inside anyway. In that case, stainless makes sense. But if they are
>fully coated, stainless is redundant, imho
I could be wrong on this, but I had always thought that the purpose
of the ceramic coating was more for thermal reasons than
anti-corrosion. Keeping heat in the exhaust helps with scavenging,
from what I've read.
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Phil Barnes (peb3@cornell.edu)
Cortland, NY (nowhere near New York City)
'71 TR6 CC61193L (26 year owner)
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