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Somehow, this got sent to me only. I talked to Scott at AirBorne Coatings in Oklahoma about powder coating the engine tin for the 2L type III project, and he told me all about their aluminuim/ceramic exhaust coatings at the same time. I almost hung up the phone and went home to get my heater boxes! Sounds really cool, I'll let you know what happens. Engine tin is heading out in the morning. Jake "Sorry to kind of take over your message, instead of just forwarding it, Jerry" Kooser Message-ID: <md5:7E9F65CB176DC6A00EFCD889B0BD3FC6> Received: from mail.amaonline.com [208.200.38.3] by in3.ibm.net id 898197754.84114-1 ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:22:34 +0000 Received: from Dialup-42.NAS5300-1.amaonline.com [208.224.34.42] (HELO Dragonyte) by mail.amaonline.com (AltaVista Mail V1.0/1.0 BL18 listener) id 0000_0071_3589_68eb_1a36; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:22:19 -0500 Reply-To: <Dragonyte@amaonline.com> From: "Dragonyte" <Dragonyte@amaonline.com> To: <jake_k@ibm.net> Subject: Re: exhaust paint Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:22:36 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I also used a store bought product that has worked for the 4 months on my daily driver. (I didn't figure it would work five minutes.) I went to our local Wally world and bought a can of barbecue grill paint. Sprayed it on my headers and (let them dry of course) away I went. You can tell where the coverage was better in places, but the headers are still covered with the paint. Just trying to help out. Jerry Morris 69 Squareback 65 Bug ---------- > From: Jake Kooser <jake_k@ibm.net> > To: type3@vwtype3.org > Subject: Re: exhaust paint > Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 10:08 PM > > A buddy of mine's dad does metal sculpture, and he turned me on to a > really good treatment to keep steel for rusting. He uses an actual > store-bought product, but showed me that wiping a HOT exhaust (run the > engine for 15 minutes or so) with some WD-40 or oil will cause the metal > to turn black, and ultimately return to a "bare" metal appearance. This > is best done on either an exhaust that is already rusted - after > cleaning it up with sandpaper or Scotch-Brite pads, or on a bare metal > exhaust. Obviously, be careful putting the stuff on the hot exhaust. > When my zooper beetle, Barney, had it's valve cover sealing issues, oil > dumped all over the single quiet pack muffler, and now it looks like new > on one end, and rusted at the collector end, so I know it works with > regular oil too. > > Jake Kooser