Lyncher said:...no ceramic helps keep the heat inside the headers..chrome does not, resulting in more heat being released into the engine bay. The more heat, the worse the performance.
Ted87GT said:BBK IS GARBAGE!! i bought the BBK unequal length headers this winter. when i got them, two bolts were crooked, had to have summit send out a package of ARP's to replace the junk ones BBK sent. After they were installed, i put 300 miles on the car and both gaskets blew out and started leaking like crazy. This is not the first instance ive heard of this happening. Several other people have had this same problem. Now i had to buy new gaskets from summit and take the headers off, replace the gaskets, and install the headers again which is a huge pain. Screw BBk im so mad at them right now. It's not even like i installed them wrong either. I have a lot of experience with cars and I work as a racecar engine builder. I will never buy BBk stuff again, for my own car or my customers. Anyways I would go ceramic if you have the money.
hopefully you didnt use the crap gaskets they send with the headers, as long as a good quality gasket is used and the bolts dont back out it wont leak, dont blame it on bad quality from bbkTed87GT said:BBK IS GARBAGE!! i bought the BBK unequal length headers this winter. when i got them, two bolts were crooked, had to have summit send out a package of ARP's to replace the junk ones BBK sent. After they were installed, i put 300 miles on the car and both gaskets blew out and started leaking like crazy. This is not the first instance ive heard of this happening. Several other people have had this same problem. Now i had to buy new gaskets from summit and take the headers off, replace the gaskets, and install the headers again which is a huge pain. Screw BBk im so mad at them right now. It's not even like i installed them wrong either. I have a lot of experience with cars and I work as a racecar engine builder. I will never buy BBk stuff again, for my own car or my customers. Anyways I would go ceramic if you have the money.
Ted87GT said:BBK IS GARBAGE!! i bought the BBK unequal length headers this winter. when i got them, two bolts were crooked, had to have summit send out a package of ARP's to replace the junk ones BBK sent. After they were installed, i put 300 miles on the car and both gaskets blew out and started leaking like crazy. This is not the first instance ive heard of this happening. Several other people have had this same problem. Now i had to buy new gaskets from summit and take the headers off, replace the gaskets, and install the headers again which is a huge pain. Screw BBk im so mad at them right now. It's not even like i installed them wrong either. I have a lot of experience with cars and I work as a racecar engine builder. I will never buy BBk stuff again, for my own car or my customers. Anyways I would go ceramic if you have the money.
Michael Yount said:Ted - did you check to see if the flanges were true/flat before you installed?
Michael Yount said:Tests might show a slight difference -- but the real issue is that chrome will blue and ultimately dis-bond resulting in rusted headers that look like crap and eventually fail. Ceramic coatings done correctly look like new 3, 4, 5 years down the road. No comparison - and no reason to go chrome. The instant you put the chrome ones on, they start to look bad. Might as well paint them with high temp paint - that and chrome will both be rusting in a very short period of time.
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