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UPDATE with my Mac Long Tubes rusting, did what I could(PICS)..

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Blakers01GT

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Well i spent about 2 hours under the car with a wire brush, rust remover and got plenty of rust off, alot of parts were obviously brown but I got alot of the thick layer of rust off most of the bottom of the headers(bad part). I got it to a point where it was as smooth as I could get it. I bought some Dupli-Color High Heat with ceramic coating, dyno heat tested Aluminum spray/protectant that takes up to 1200 degrees of heat. I spraid a few coats of what I could get too, but spraid the parts that were bad. take a look, at least it won't get worse from here. Still waiting for Mac's reply to my email....

BEFORE - http://drterb.sytes.net/linpha/img_...=Mustang&filename=IMG_0195.JPG&page=1&alb=sec


AFTER - http://drterb.sytes.net/linpha/img_...=Mustang&filename=IMG_0204.JPG&page=2&alb=sec

http://drterb.sytes.net/linpha/img_...st_name=&sec_name=&page=2&exif=&&photo_query=


still crossing my fingers that Mac can do something for me
 

stangman

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wow man that looks good let us know what mac does
 

White360RFnSwee

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What do you expect mac to do?

It was YOUR decision not to buy the coated headers...
 

Blakers01GT

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White360RFnSwee said:
What do you expect mac to do?

It was YOUR decision not to buy the coated headers...
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ahhh, they were coated from the factory. that doesn't mean much when you live in Wisconsin
 

JonJon

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looks A MILLION times better
 

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JonJon said:
looks A MILLION times better
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Yea I saw the pics of em earlier, and they do look tons better. Hope everything works out for you like it did with your catback. Good Luck.
 

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Where did you get the ceramic coating paint?
 

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98GTVortech said:
Where did you get the ceramic coating paint?
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mac now sells them "ceramac" coated
 
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I would rather get the regular headers, and paint them myself with hightemp paint. Or would is this not a perminant solution.
 

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c2see21 said:
mac now sells them "ceramac" coated
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JonJon said:
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it's ceramic coated headers, just with a play on the word MAC hence "ceramac"
 

JonJon

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c2see21 said:
it's ceramic coated headers, just with a play on the word MAC hence "ceramac"
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ooooooooooooooooh. now i gotcha

ceraMAC.
 

Blakers01GT

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obviously, If I had to do it over, I would have taken this stuff and loaded it on before I got them installed. I just got it at a local Advanced Auto Parts in the Paint isle. It's Dupli Color(12oz bottle) HIGH HEAT w/Ceramic, "DYNO HEAT TESTED". it has a picture of headers and a motor on the bottle, it takes up to 1200* of heat. It's about 5$ a bottle. and on the cap it says "ALUMINUM DH1606". while I'm at it I'm gonna spray my mufflers as well.......
 
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that's the stuff I used on my macs. I put a bunch of coats on before installing them as well as on my dr.gas x (had a bunch of extra paint ) Mine did get scratched up during the install, but I touched them up and they seem to be hold up great :crosses fingers:
 
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