Matt O.

Guys, I painted the top of my engine, and had a little overspray go on the header. I started her up (after fixing the fuel injectors, cross your fingers that they stay fixed) and a strong smell of burning plastic or paint was coming (along with a little smoke) from the header area.

Should I be worried? I remember someone's post about purchasing Bursch headers (or some other header) that were painted from the factory and they smoked for a while.

By the way, YES I did use ENGINE HIGH TEMP (500 deg F) paint.

TIA,
Matt

mrmunky

take some alcohol on a rag to the headers and get the overspray off. problem solved.

Eric D

Matt,

High temp engine paint is not suitable for painting headers. Thus the smoke you see. Header paint is the 1200 degree stuff.

Here is a photo of some.

Matt O.

can I just leave it on there and let it burn off? Or will it ignite?

I tried to get it off but no luck.

Thanks,
Matt

triscadek

It will just burn off-won't ignite, be a little smelly for a little while but don't worry about it.