before you powder coat your exhaust tips...
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#17
Nordschleife Master
I'm getting tired of the sooted up look that my stainless steel tips get, which, when I wash it, end up a mix of dull steel and darkened bits from soot/cooking.
I'm looking to just have the tips ceramic coated with matte black.
What are the good outfits to ship your tips to for quality cleaning and ceramic treatment? (I'm in the Puget Sound region if it matters, but am willing to UPS out my tips for a week.
I'm looking to just have the tips ceramic coated with matte black.
What are the good outfits to ship your tips to for quality cleaning and ceramic treatment? (I'm in the Puget Sound region if it matters, but am willing to UPS out my tips for a week.
I find the brushed stainless-steel tips very easy to maintain. Just wipe them weekly with a stainless cleaner or a 3M polishing pad.
#19
Instructor
These shops usually do jobs in a batch. The items need to be sand blasted to remove the chrome, ceramic applied, and put in a oven. I had to wait about five days for my tips to be completed.
#21
Drifting
I am who I am and that isn't likely to change, so I want to get the car working as best I can with the way I maintain it. (which admittedly isn't as well as I'd like to.. .but then I'd also like to be a whole lot thinner).
#22
Racer
After I clean the wheels I run the wheel cleaner solution of the day, brush & rag on both the inside & outside of the tips. The outsides clean right up. By cleaning up the inside the exhaust goo doesn't have as much a chance to build up tar on the inside which then "rolls" out onto the outside of the tip. That's how back in the 70's I keep my '66 VW exhaust tip clean. Make sure the area in back of your car is clear when you start it up because that is some nasty staining stuff.
#23
I followed the advice of a post here last spring on my non-S (standard, single tips) and painted them on the cheap. I took them off the car, sanded them with 400 then 600 grit. Cleaned/degreased well. I used high temp primer followed by 3 thin coats of high temp flat black and they look great (to my eye, mind you). We're having a pretty toasty Florida summer and my 30 mile round trip in city stop and go has resulted in no deterioration at all. $20 and 1 hour total time. I have not been on the track, so this is only a DD "test".
#24
Race Director
I followed the advice of a post here last spring on my non-S (standard, single tips) and painted them on the cheap. I took them off the car, sanded them with 400 then 600 grit. Cleaned/degreased well. I used high temp primer followed by 3 thin coats of high temp flat black and they look great (to my eye, mind you). We're having a pretty toasty Florida summer and my 30 mile round trip in city stop and go has resulted in no deterioration at all. $20 and 1 hour total time. I have not been on the track, so this is only a DD "test".
Hi-Temp exhaust or engine paint looks the same and does a better job....pick flat black, semi-gloss or gloss...your choice and do your prep work.
I did this on my tips 3 years ago and after 22k miles and most of those miles are at Sebring raceway...tips look like I just like new ceramic coat tips...except it only cost me about 1 hr on the weekend and $4 in paint.
#25
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Which shop in OKC (or proximity) are you having the tips done by?
#26
Rennlist Member
Thread Starter
Superior Concepts in Edmond is subbing it out. Don't know but will find out who does the coating
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#30
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Ceramic coated my PSE tips 2 years ago. pictures attached before and after. The center was already black from the factory and ceramic coated the outside casing of tips. Driven in the summer and winter months in the northeast. Tips still look very good and cleaning is a simple rinsing and drying. No damages to the ceramic coat to date.