Ceramic Vs Stainless Steel Header

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Ceramic vs stainless steel header. We offer a variety of materials from 321 stainless and 304 stainless to mild steel. Is a premier applicator of ceramic coatings. Hedman hedders has been manufacturing mild steel headers for over 60 years. Stainless steel headers can also be quite shiny when they re polished but they do discolor to a hot metal shade of tawny gold.

Stainless headers mfg inc. Stainless will radiate more heat into the engine compartment than ceramic coated headers will. The ceramic actually blocks alot of the heat if they are coated inside and out. Jump to latest follow 1 12 of 12 posts.

Discussion starter 1 jun 13 2005. Also since the heat is staying inside the headers the exhaust gases will be hotter and will flow more remember as air cools it becomes more dense. These coatings offer excellent thermal barrier characteristics corrosion protection and enhance the components appearance. Today most of our most popular header models for camaros chevelles c10 trucks chargers and many others are also available manufactured from 100 t304 stainless steel.

What are the pros and cons for both headers. Headers ceramic vs stainless steel. But stainless steel does discolor when the header gets hot and ceramic doesn t. Ceramic headers can maintain their out of the box chrome like appearance for many years and the smooth surface makes them easy to clean.