skratch77

I found a local factory that will do it for me and the ceramic they used is cerakote? I didn't do much research on it but my shop recommend cerakote also.

I think they said they would do it for 150 bucks including blasting the headers to get it to stick good.

skratch77

Doing everything including straight pipe and xpipe as I don't know what setup I'll like better when installed!

Jasonoff

Clean your fkn car man!

skratch77

That's my crv lol

bentz69

I had the headers and pipes ceramic coated on my kawasaki zx14 about 5 years ago and it was a great investment. That amount of heat that is retained within the pipe is huge.

I would certaininly do it again it I decide to buy headers for this car

Celicasaur

Good call, Skratch. in hindsight, i wish i had mine properly coated too.

Is it possible to log the EGT from your current set up and then compare to when you're fitted with the headers?

I like your x-pipe man. Makes me wish they sold off the shelf ones with that exact design. Nearly every x-pipe i see on the market (as in, non M156-specific) is better suited to rubbish old chevvy 5.7l motors.

skratch77

To be fair it's an official mbh xpipe that I bought off a member a while ago as I knew I would do headers at some point.

So it's all bolt on for my setup.i will try to log temps but I'm not sure they will change much from the coating.

Celicasaur

Good purchase....it's a good design. All of the proper/good ones (MBH, Weistec) are very straight like that with the joining intersection.

Yeah I wonder if the temps will rise. They 'should' really. The whole point of the ceramic coating is to retain the heat which speeds up exhaust flow (and power should be slightly better as a result) and then of course lowers engine bay temps.

skratch77

Car is done just got the message from the shop!!! They said sweet baby Jesus it sounds insane lol.

I can't wait to get it

Infiniti

Wait till you drive it. Power is sick

xKryptonite

Is it tuned already?

skratch77

Just running my race map and will log it.i have a feeling these ecus can adapt and hit target af ratios without a need for a retune.

skratch77

We will see!

NotABaller

sweeeeeeet. grats man! please update us with your hearing losses

skratch77

It's not that loud guys with the x pipe the stink is more a concern for me though.

The but Dyno says I lost alot of throttle response and crispness and power everywhere.

I'm letting it adapt but I'm working all day so I can't drive it around.

PS the China catted bungs work fine with no check engine light so far

NotABaller

Not loud, lost power, and smells bad? Yikes

Please report back soon brother.

skratch77

waiting for header file

PS trust me it's loud just not as bad as the forum tells it being.

Silversun262

sub'd

Waiting on my headers and was contemplating a ceramic coating. For the price, it seems like a no brainer.

NotABaller

Can it help reduce oil temps?

skratch77

Guys I had a huge issue with the ceramic shop and pulled my headers out of there.

Long story short they wanted to put a thin coating that was made to vent heat and when I told them I needed a different paint made for headers they said they need to order it and don't have ovens setup to run the v series cerakote.

Huge waste of my time and booked shop time to get them installed so I skipped doing the ceramic

Silversun262

Not sure if you meant to quote me, but fwiw, I honestly don’t have the technical knowledge to answer accurately.

Now, that said, I can imagine keeping heat in the exhaust system vs losing it in the engine bay could play a part in keeping oil temp lower. BUT again, that’s just my limited knowledge.

Silversun262

Dang! I hate crap like this! Well, if I can find a good shop in SoCal LA area to do the coating on mine, I will report back.

Infiniti

I have the x pipe to stock resonator to c63 mufflers and its loud but some of these guys on the post exaggerate a little too much LOL or have never had or heard a really loud car. When on throttle at night it is loud lol, every time i goose it at night I'm always looking around after i let off

The stink is out of control on my car, i cant even roll with the windows down unless i want to smell like fuel, oil and possibly coolant (headbolt pun). Every time i goose it, black smoke blows out of the exhaust, all that.

Hopefully your header file really wakes the car up, before i got my retune for headers i still felt a night and day diff with the headers (before unicorn tune)

Keep us posted

Celicasaur

Pissed. I feel for you man...that's really annoying.


Regarding the stink...it's spooky that some members have it and others don't. Mine doesn't...I can even stand behind the car and do stuff without choking etc. I think the smell is related to the charcoal canister being tired perhaps

NotABaller

Time to put on HFC and remove reso