Hey All,

When I built some headers for my 1962 Jeep Willys pickup, I ceramic coated the headers and I swear, they were cool to the touch in about 5 minutes from turning the engine off. Does anyone know of any processes to shed some of the heat off my roll cage!!! I just fitted it and need to powder coat it or do something with it, you can cook a egg on it right now!!

Thanks

 

Go with a light color or wrap it with padding

 

X2 on the padding

 

I had the sidepipes/headers on my 1965 Shelby Cobra ceramic coated (actually Jet-Hot coated), so I understand what you are looking to do, but the coating on the headers was basically designed to keep heat in to increase the speed and/or scavenging of exhuast gas leaving the heads, which means in theory free horsepower. Unfortunately, it wouldn't do much for cooling your roll cage since the cage is just basically a heat/cold conductor (depending on ambient air temp and direct sunlight), since it just sits in the sun and absorbs the heat or cold. The best option to keep it cooler is to paint it the lightest color you can deal with. Think of a car with white paint verses a car with black paint, both can have hot surface temps, but one not nearly as hot. My roll cage in the Arizona summer is dangerous to grab onto!

 

I think the extra insulation with padding and a silver powder coat job will do the trick.. Thank you for your time in writing me.. You could see where I was coming from, I figured there must be something invented by now.. HaHa..

OHHHH... And I'm jealous that you have a 1965 Shelby Cobra if you were wondering!!

Thanks Again Pal

 

Jet-Hot does a great job

 

No problem, glad you got the fix from all the responses. Here a couple of shots of the "sidepipes". I used to display at Barrett-Jackson with some really AWESOME stablemates from the Shelby family.

 

Beautiful car.. is that Ford GT yours too.? Because if it is I hate you :/

 

No, but I wish it was! The owner lives near me, he drives it quite a bit, almost a daily driver at that

 

Amazing my friend!!! These are my current two projects