Dave,
sounds interesting. Do you know of anyone up north (I'm in Minnesota)
who could do this?
Scott Bloomer
67 TR4A
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:18:16 -0500 David Massey
<105671.471@compuserve.com> writes:
>
> Message text written by "Huw Upshall"
> >For a real durable coating for exhaust manifolds, I can't stress
> ceramic
> coating strong enough. It will survive the heat, that's what it's
> designed
> for.
> <
>
> The only short-coming to ceramic is that the coefficient of
> expansion for
> ceramic is different for that iron and will eventually crack. Ask
> any Jag
> owner. An equally robust coating for exhaust manifolds is
> aluminizing. An
> outfit in Texas called Road Toys will do it for about $45 (US) per
> manifold. A friend of mine had his Austin Healey manifolds done ten
> years
> ago and except where oil has leaked onto the manifold and turned
> black the
> silver coating looks as it did when new.
>
> If anybody wants to know more write back.
>
> NFI etc.
>
> Dave Massey
> 57 TR3
> 71 TR6
> 80 TR8 (with aluminized manifolds)
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