I did a bit of research a few years
ago. The 'bite your butt' aspect of all of them is that they need
to go in the interior to really do some good (protect the metal of
the manifold/exhaust itself, in addition to the under-cowl stuff),
Even the pro coaters I talked to were not very encouraging about
trying to coat a product that has already been in service; just no
way to be sure all the interior surfaces got clean, before
applying the coating.
If you're willing to accept the process as just being better than
the wrap, but doing the same thing, then go for it. You do need to
look closely at the actual characteristics of the product, too.
Some will withstand extreme heat, but do little to block
transmission of that heat. They were basically just high
heat-tolerance finishes. Many of the products I researched fell
into that category, but you really had to dig to get the info.
FWIW, I just took a look at the VHT Flameproof web page, and
there's no claim whatsoever that it lowers under-hood (cowl)
temps. If it were my product, and it did that, I'd certainly
flaunt the fact that it did, complete with "twenty-seven 8 x 10
colored glossy photographs
with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of
each one explainin' what each one was, to be used
as evidence" of what a great product it was.
Charlie
(Apologies to Arlo.)
On 6/15/2017 4:45 PM, Todd Bartrim wrote:
It appears that Jet-Hot is a service business and
not a product that I can buy. They may have their own
proprietary coatings but it doesn't appear that they sell them
as a product but only as a service for which I'd have to send my
stuff out-of -country to have them apply it.
I can get it done here in Canada by any number of
businesses that use a variety of products including Cerakote
and Ceramakrome. Unfortunately none of them are local and
other than VHT, I haven't been able to find a product in
Canada to do it myself.
So unless somebody speaks up with a glowing
recommendation for VHT, then I'll resign myself to shipping
them away to have someone do it for me.
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