Pretty Cast Iron

[sleepydsm]

What can I do to make my cast iron exhaust parts look pretty? Paint, polish, sandblast, chrome, etc.

Thanks in Advance,
Kevin

[A//// Guy]

What exactly do you have that is cast? You should only have a Exhuast manifold that is Cast and the exhaust housing on the turbo will be Cast. Put a nice shiny heatsheild over the exhaust manifold and youll be done :)

Otherwise you can Jet Coat all that stuff but it will be $$.

[Onefast99gsx]

You will have to get it ceramic Jet Coated as stated above. I used 1200* temp paint and it burned off right away. That's about the only option you have is to ceramic coat it. I don't know what it would cost though. I'm guessing at least $75+. Somebody else on here may know a more accurate figure.

[JET]

I have some "super duper special paint" that holds up to the temps pretty well. I tried a ton of different paints and this one is not a regular paint, more of a powder coat, but a cold process. I tested it on my exhaust manifold. It doesn't stay totally black, but it's a dark grey and looks 10x better than a bare one. You can see mine if you are interested. No, I am not giving out the name either :D It took way too much time to try and finally find it.

[Raptor]

Replace them with SS ;) or get the coatings from Eastwood Co. They work well and look decent.

[sleepydsm]

Thank you all very much.

[john]

High temp engine enamel at checker???

[Jakey]

Jet Hot

[JET]

High temp engine enamel at checker???
Basically all paint will burn off the first time you drive the car, engine enamel included.

[Onefast99gsx]

PS- although it looks nice and all after you paint it, you really shouldn't run without your heatshields especially the lower one. So if you run the shields like you should, painting them doesn't pay. I have mine on and i painted them, for what reason i don't know why.

On the dsmlink forums, i've read reports from people that their a/c fan melted due to not running the h. sheild.