Anyone running BBK ceramic coated Long tubes, please come in..

[SilverBullet00]

I have been running a set of BBK long tube headers for about 16 months. While doing a brake job I happend to look under the car when It was in the air to see what they looked like. I must say I was rather pissed off to find the ceramic coating PEELING off the bottom half of the headers. There is rust in between the primary's (close to the collector), on the primarys ( about half way up) and around the collector. Has anyone else had a problem with these headers rusting??? Hell, I know people that have the chrome headers that dont look this bad! I doubt BBK will warranty them, but I might check anyways. I was just curious if anyone had a similar problem?

 

[laxdman20]

Mine are chrome and rusting at the collectors.

 

[WhitePony04]

I installed mine this past xmas in a nice chilly chicagoland garage
I drive it all year round. No rust for me....they look nice still. I hope this isnt something I have to "look forward" to...

 

[hotmustang331]

ine have some surface rust on and near the collector...but it wipes off if you use some force.....no pealing though

 

[jasonh_86]

That sucks to hear about the rust on your headers..


But, not to be a jerk.. but what do you expect when the ground gets wet and you drive over it. Those are probably only inches away from the ground and are proned to get wet quite a bit. They oxidize and rust

 

[stng]

Mine have been on for quite awhile and where I live there is often gravel on the roads, at any rate pretty much all of the ceramic coating on the bottom portion of my headers/collectors is gone and replaced with surface rust... I am pretty sure that over time this will happen to all headers...

 

[hotmustang331]

^ That sucks...but I bet your right. I guess ceramic just delays the rust for a while

 

[03GTconv]

I Got some Surface Rust but its not bad

 

[RedDaemon]

would wrapping the headers in that tape may have prevented the ceramic coat to peal off?

 

[stangman]

any metal will rust given the right circumstances, regardless of coating etc.... & the fact that it's peeling sure isn't helping your case. try some naval jelly (sp?) next time you're under there & see if that'll take care of the rust

 

[HoustonGT]

I was planning on getting those headers and getting them jet hot coated, but by the time i buy them and pay extra for the coating, i might as well pay the same amount for some Stainless Steel SLP LT's.....Damn these things are expensive

 

[mity2]

I was under the car today, and notice my BBK is shinny as day I installed them

 

[SilverBullet00]

The H pipe and catback are still perfect, its just the headers that have the rust... What about kooks, they have stainless steal for the 2V dont they??

 

[rllndg17]

How bad is rust anyways? I just ordered as set of LT's chrome and I was planning on spraying flameproof spray on em and baking them but is rust on the outside anything more than just bad looks?

 

[edbo]

Had mine on for 15k miles and getting some rust at the collectors. I'm just going to try and clean 'em up some and spray them with some high temp paint and see how it goes.

 

[laxdman20]

Its only surface rust, so it just looks bad and pisses me off.

 

[evol04gt]

this might be a little off topic but ~~~~ is it a good or bad idea to spray some ceramic coating on your aluminized x pipe? picking up a bbk catless this week just trying to extend the life of it a bit.... thanks.