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Every year my header gets coated in clay which bakes on, one layer at a time. It's good red clay so it looks like rust.
Every year I take the header off and scrape and wire-brush the baked-on ceramic. Then there are holes in the paint so I paint it again.
Each trip I'll splash some clay-water onto the header and it will bake a thin layer before I get home. By the end of the year it will look rusty again, but there'll be good black paint under the clay.
If it was any color other than rust, I'd probably leave it. But since it looks like rust I am unable to start the year with the clay on there.
Does anyone else have clay baked onto their exhaust header? Would switching to a stainless header make clean-up easier? (Or maybe I should just spray some black glaze on the hot header instead of using paint.)
Every year I take the header off and scrape and wire-brush the baked-on ceramic. Then there are holes in the paint so I paint it again.
Each trip I'll splash some clay-water onto the header and it will bake a thin layer before I get home. By the end of the year it will look rusty again, but there'll be good black paint under the clay.
If it was any color other than rust, I'd probably leave it. But since it looks like rust I am unable to start the year with the clay on there.
Does anyone else have clay baked onto their exhaust header? Would switching to a stainless header make clean-up easier? (Or maybe I should just spray some black glaze on the hot header instead of using paint.)