spiroh

Bnut,

How much was it? Where did you send them? Is there supposed to be a performance improvement with this process?

Thanks,

Spiro

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BNut

The cost is roughly $250 with shipping for the coating. There is a plant in GA and another in PA that does the coating. They claim on high HP setups (ie 500+hp) that small gains can be seen. The main benefit of the coating is protecting the headers against corrosion and rust.

Here is my advice. Do NOT get your headers coated! If you do want to get them coated, I would ONLY have the outside of the headers coated. My headers had to be coated twice because of a flaw with the coating inside the downpipe. I can't prove it, but I'm convinced that having the headers coated twice somehow "ruined" the performance of my headers. My headers gains were roughly 1/2 of the other V6 Accord members who had their's dyno'd. I had a 6hp PEAK gain with my headers. My intake and pulleys netted me larger gains than that! I even had my car re-dyno'd a second time after having the oil changed and cleaning my air filter. NO difference!


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2000 Acccord LX V6 Sedan
- Eibach Pro-Kit Springs& Koni Yellow Shocks
- AEM Short Ram Intake
- AEM Tru-Power Pulleys
- Jet Hot Coated CompTech Headers
- Denso Iridium IK20 Plugs
- Forged Racing Hart 17x7.5" CP-035's with 225/45 RE730's
- 15.44 @ 87.87mph (Track)

typeR

BTW...while on the subject of comp headers and the dyno...if you look there dyno is ign.exh.headers 34 hp gain i inquired about this ignition which i couldnt find any where for sale on there site .,they said they had dyno'd a customers car that had the ingnition already installed ,so they told me 23 hp just headers and exhaust on 98+v-6 accord

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'01 3.2 CL typeS
H&R o.e.'s 1.0/1.0
AEM cold air w/bypass
---PIAA 19224----
satin silver metalic
Llumar platinum plus
tint 20% all around
kill list
ITR.'98gt,GTP,contour SVT
GS-R,87 GT,supra...and more to come
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16" coupe wheels
215/55/16 nitto's
20% smoke titanium
black chrome kit

spiroh

Was this dyno for the CL-S, or Accord? I winder what ignition they would use for the CL-S. MSD? I dont think Comptech has an ignition.

Spiro



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spiroh

Bnut,

Thanks for your input. I'm definately not going to do it then. $250 just isnt worth it for me.

Spiro

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typeR

ACCORD...customer car dont know what knid showed 34 hp gain the cl-S was stock 32 hp


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'01 3.2 CL typeS
H&R o.e.'s 1.0/1.0
AEM cold air w/bypass
---PIAA 19224----
satin silver metalic
Llumar platinum plus
tint 20% all around
kill list
ITR.'98gt,GTP,contour SVT
GS-R,87 GT,supra...and more to come
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'98 ACCORD V-6 sedan
16" coupe wheels
215/55/16 nitto's
20% smoke titanium
black chrome kit

EricL

Stainless steel headers should not need to be Jet Coated...

I would definitely do it to uncoated mild steel headers!

(just my own opinion, from years of learning with non-stainless headers)

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Silver 2001 CL-S with NAVI

• Mud guards
• Wheel locks
• Toyo T1S 235/45ZR17-97W* Proxies on 17x8" SSR Competition wheels (48lbs less than stock)
• Kevlar/SS Brake lines w/Brembos?
• Comptech headers & sways
• Silver AEM CAI
• 10 coats of Zaino magic

spiroh

I always preferred Ceramic to be honest.

Spiro



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EricL

Sure -- just forget about mild-steel headers lasting without some kind of "coating." Been there, done that. I was welding and reinforcing mild steel headers every couple of months. I finally took up welding (that's how bad it was...)




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Silver 2001 CL-S with NAVI

• Mud guards
• Wheel locks
• Toyo T1S 235/45ZR17-97W* Proxies on 17x8" SSR Competition wheels (48lbs less than stock)
• Kevlar/SS Brake lines w/Brembos?
• Comptech headers & sways
• Silver AEM CAI
• 10 coats of Zaino magic

spiroh

Its a shame they dont offer ceramic for our cars. It always looks the same, It conducts heat better, and its cheaper. The only drawback is it cracks easier. Personally I did not have a problem with my headers on the integ.

Spiro



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Jayru

Does this coating prevent the stainless from browning after time?

Sounds like good insurance on your headers.
$250 protective coating to protect $1,100 headers

BNut

Yup, NO browning at all... My headers still look just like this:



[This message has been edited by BNut (edited 06-12-2001).]

EricL

Call me crazy, but I don't mind the gold color of my headers.

However, for "show" cars, it does sound like doing just the outside would be best...


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Silver 2001 CL-S with NAVI

• Mud guards
• Wheel locks
• Toyo T1S 235/45ZR17-97W* Proxies on 17x8" SSR Competition wheels (48lbs less than stock)
• Kevlar/SS Brake lines w/Brembos?
• Comptech headers & sways
• Silver AEM CAI
• 10 coats of Zaino magic

spiroh

True. If that's the only thing that jet coating does, then to me its not worthwhile for $250. Have any of you guys tried wrapping the headers, even though comptech does not recommend it?

Spiro



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CLpower

the coloring is the cool part of the headers. gives it that i'm a big bad muscle car w/ a big bad exhaust manifold look