Painting Aluminized Steel Exhaust

Either will rust aluminized is just a steel pipe with a coating on the outside.

Painting aluminized steel exhaust. It has held up extremely well and has not chipped or flaked for me yet. 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. Your exhaust behind the headers will not get as hot as the headers and the paint will hold up quite well. Headers are hardest on the paints.

I use the brush on stainless steel header paint from eastwood. 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. I am not a fan of chrome on the track car so i used some of my spray painting skills to change. To or not to paint aluminized exhaust on.

The aluminized will take longer till you ll see rust but it will rust too. A common problem with aluminized steel exhaust is rusting from the inside out. Using the same technique you used to apply the primer apply 2 3 light coats of high heat spray to the exhaust pipe. It has held up well over the years.

If you thought the engine gets hot you should see the exhaust parts. Oem exhaust systems are typically aluminized steel and are way more common. I paint all my aluminized exhaust kits with rustoleum high temp bbq grill paint. Aluminized steel is not as aesthetically pleasing or as rust resistant as stainless steel.

It has a much more dull appearance than stainless steel does. Follow the directions on the high heat spray s label to complete the curing process. I do take the time to clean the exhaust and paint it prior install. The hard part with exhaust painting is the expansion and contraction with the heat and cool makes the paint crack and flake.

It s strange how that noise sounds eerily like a voice in my head ordering me to kill snookie. We have 2k aerospray engine paint as well for paint gun free applications. Although aluminized steel is the better of the two money wise. Moisture collects inside the exhaust when it s cold.

Then i just touch up any scratches from install. Then let the paint dry for 1 2 hours before moving on to the curing process. Been very happy with this method. 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.

I ordered a new set of chrome tip muffler deletes from remark. In my basement you can hear water in the pipes.