Painting Aluminized Steel Exhaust

If you only take short trips the exhaust never gets hot enough to evaporate all of that moisture.

Painting aluminized steel exhaust.

Then i just touch up any scratches from install. It has a much more dull appearance than stainless steel does. I ordered a new set of chrome tip muffler deletes from remark. Your exhaust behind the headers will not get as hot as the headers and the paint will hold up quite well.

That moisture causes the inside of the system to rust. I am not a fan of chrome on the track car so i used some of my spray painting skills to change. Headers are hardest on the paints. Either will rust aluminized is just a steel pipe with a coating on the outside.

Then let the paint dry for 1 2 hours before moving on to the curing process. I do take the time to clean the exhaust and paint it prior install. Follow the directions on the high heat spray s label to complete the curing process. Oem exhaust systems are typically aluminized steel and are way more common.

If you thought the engine gets hot you should see the exhaust parts. Moisture collects inside the exhaust when it s cold. The hard part with exhaust painting is the expansion and contraction with the heat and cool makes the paint crack and flake. It has held up extremely well and has not chipped or flaked for me yet.

We have 2k aerospray engine paint as well for paint gun free applications. Aluminized steel is not as aesthetically pleasing or as rust resistant as stainless steel. It s strange how that noise sounds eerily like a voice in my head ordering me to kill snookie. Our engine block paint comes in dozens of universal colors as well as oem shades such as old ford blue hemi orange and buick red.

It has held up well over the years. I d go with the aluminized and paint the welded areas as well as the seams bends and it ll look good for quite a while. Using the same technique you used to apply the primer apply 2 3 light coats of high heat spray to the exhaust pipe. Been very happy with this method.

In my basement you can hear water in the pipes. June 06 2018 01 00 59 pm here in sunny kalifornia is there any advantage to painting new aluminized exhaust pipes other than the ll look pretty for awhile. To or not to paint aluminized exhaust on. I m too poor for the expensive stuff.

Although aluminized steel is the better of the two money wise. I use the brush on stainless steel header paint from eastwood.