anyone tell me any shops to send my pipe to get chromed or jet hot coated or powder coated??? and which one do you guys prefer...thanks!!

 

you can send it to a local atv shop. But if you wanted to be cheaper you could just spray paint it. (make sure u use heat resistant paint and put a couple layers)

 

Powder coating isn't that expensive....Maybe 30-40 for your pipe or even less. I have no idea if PC is heat resistant though. There are probably local shops that do PCing. I don't know about chroming or jet hot coating.

 

ive done the high heat resistent paint from dupli-color and it just peels wen water hits it wen its hot

 

powdercoating tends to retain heat but looks great, when I built the engine for my harley I had the cylinders and the heads bead blasted then I painted them with a couple thin coats of the duplicolor 1500 degree ceramic heat paint which you can buy from autozone. it looks great and won't retain heat. I don't know if powdercoating on a pipe would be good or bad but I can't see it being a problem but in my case on my cylinders and heads which are air cooled I wanted them to stay cool.

 

actually, you want a pipe/header to Contain heat, thats why on some pipes you can get Cematic (really bad sp) coating for like 100$ more, because it keeps the exhaust temp hotter, hotter exhaust flows faster = More hP.

 

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Yea that makes sense LT250R... Heat=Energy=Movement. But is there a paint that doesn't peel of in heat and keeps heat?

 

yea, its called Header paint, i used it to paint my heat shealds. their made for headers, i got it for like 5$ at Autozone, i dont know howmany colors they come in, i got gloss black. Works great, you have to paint it, let dry for 1 hr, then let bike run for 1 hr or bake part in a unconvetional oven at 650 degrees for 60min

 

i had that 1400 degree paint from autozone it didnt work...once it got wet it just came off...i put about 4 coats on

 

because you didnt follow the directions. Get Header paint and read the instructions...