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Re: Color of Exhaust Manifold

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Color of Exhaust Manifold
From: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:28:40 -0800 (PST)
Yeah. I used some 1500 deg. paint that you bake on
(stick it in an oven to cure it). Looked great, until
the engine ran for about 3 minutes.

By the end of the month, it had completely  burnt and
peeled off of the header.

-Terry

--- Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net> wrote:
> 
> Tep735 wrote:
> > 
> > The color of the block is black, the color of the
> valve cover is orange, and
> > the color of the intake is silver (a Weber DGV
> carb) I am interested in a
> > metallic color for the exhaust manifold so it
> would be a similar color of
> > the intake. The paint I plan on getting can
> withstand 1200 degrees
> > Fairenhight.
> 
> 
> It'll burn off, just like the 1300 degree paint I
> used on my header!
> 
> Joe


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