Thread: Heat wrapping vs Ceramic Coating a header

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I'm sure the header wrap works a little bit better. But the ceramic coating just looks so much better, prevents rust too.

There is a coating place around here that sells a coating that is good for 1600*F. One of my friends has a manifold coated with it. A GT42r and after going for a spin he popped the hood and touched the manifold.

Normally you would come back with no fingerprint and in pain, but he clean wiped his finger on the manifold and didn't get burned.

How so?

So what's the problem?

Sure, but we only care about mass flow, am I wrong? How do you get the most air through a pipe the fastest? With cooler air.

Yah the molecules move more quickly, and the gas gains speed and you get more flow volume, but you get less mass flow. Which is what we're really interested in.

I have to concede on this point. I thought about it at dinner last night (Mexican). Even though you have less mass flow through the turbine with hotter air, you do have faster moving air, and thus more momentum to the molecules. Even though you have less molecules hitting the turbine blade they are going to hit it faster, and speed works on momentum as an exponent unlike mass which works as a coefficient.

Yah, and that's why a turbo will spool quicker with hotter air. I get it. I was a bit off there.

Still, after the turbo, or after the merge collectors in a N/A header, you want the exhaust to cool down quickly for best flow, not stay warm. Agreed?

Agreed! Good work Ben.

What you could do, is keep the gas as hot as possible without damaging anything, but enlarge the pipes as to increase your mass flow. Win-win. Though going with a larger pipe will slow the gas speed slightly.

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