JET HOT proprietary coatings

[5030]

I was curious if anyone is familiar with Jet Hot?

It's a proprietary coating that may be applied to exhaust manifolds and turbochargers to contain heat. It comes in different colors as well as a chrome like finish.

 

[PineRidge]

Daryl I have never heard of Jet Hot but here is a few reasons I found to use it Why Jet Hot

 

[ScottAR]

Pretty popular in the hot rod crowd. Not that expensive if you get a color. The polishing costs more as one might expect.

 

[Von]

There is a company here in town that does most of the Nascar racers called swain tech. They do ceramic coating on the inside of headers and on the top of the pistons and the face of valves. In turbos you can run more boost with there coatings. They also do the hot metal coatings for the outside of headers. My buddy had his race car ones done by them, not cheap, but makes a big difference on the dyno! I had some thing done by them years ago when I had my auto restoration shop. They were just getting started and always treated me right! Of course I was working on mostly Porsches and they saw a big market in that area.

 

[OkeeDon]

The headers on my previous SCCA road race car (I'm without one right now, until I get the new barn built) were coated with Jet Hot. There are several others who do the same thing, but I believe Jet Hot was one of the originators.

You ship them the part, either new or used, and they prep it, coat it and return it. In the case of exhaust headers, they coat both the outside and the inside. While the outside is "polished", don't expect it to look like chrome.

The silver coating I got was the cheapest, if I recall. They also have a copper colored coating for higher heat applications - the headers on a Mazda rotary engine can approach 1600 degrees, and the silver is good for about 1200 degrees.

I bought the headers new, coated with a high temp paint. I cured them according to directions. A couple of months later, the paint had burned off and there was a light coating of surface rust. I sand blasted them and painted them again with a high quality, high temp paint, cured it, and a couple of months later I had rust again. I sent them to Jet Hot -- about 8 years ago -- ran them for a couple of years and have stored them since, part of the time not under cover, and they are still silver.

In addition to the excellent preservative nature of the coating, they also tend to radiate less heat, and the inner coating produces a tiny bit more power. We were racing in a small bore class (1300 cc Toyota Starlet), and every bit of fractional horsepower helps.

As I recall, the cost was around $300. Worth every penny. Any of the coatings will likely perform as well, but be sure the company can properly prepare used, rusted parts like Jet Hot can, and, if it's important to you (as it was to me), make sure they coat the inside, as well.

There are a lot of other applications besides exhaust. Swain Tech, mentioned above, also has coatings for pistons, etc., but they are not legal for our category of racing.

Recommended. The headers on my new car (VW Scirocco) will also be coated, probably with Jet Hot, unless I can get an equal job for less $$$ somewhere else.

Now, if you want to get into a really esoteric subject, let's talk about cryo treatment of brake rotors and other high heat parts...

 

[5030]

Don:

And everyone else who have replied.

It's not for a tractor or a race car for that matter, it's for my new Triumph Bonneville that I posted a while ago. The exhaust headers on the Triumph are single wall, while most bikes have a double wall header. The double wall doesn't dis-color.

The single wall headers turn the chrome blue. I was considering coating them with Jet-Hot to thermally insulate them and prevent the dis-coloring. The Jet-Hot coating that I was considering was their "Sterling". It simulates a dull chrome finish which would work for the headers.

I have already received a price quote from Jet-Hot at $160.00 for both headers minus the shipping.

I have a friend with a Ferrari 350 Berlinetta Boxer V-12 and the inside of the headers as well as the entire exhaust system are ceramic coated. I have not been able to locate a domestic ceramic coater and I don't know if the ceramic coating because of it's high temperature cure, is compatible with an external nickle-chrome finish that I would require.

 

[BubbaJr]

Daryl, I was watching a show last year, (Trucks - Horsepower TV - or one of the similar shows), and they were showing a paste product that is supposed to clean the blue off from chrome headers. I think it was made by Wenol but I may be wrong. You might want to try something like that before you spend the money on a coating.

 

[jimgerken]

Please also consider and get a quote from HPC High Performance Coatings. Find them on the web and give them a call. I have have excellent results with HPC. A two-stroke "Y" pipe coated inside and out, looked absolutely perfect when I sold it, seven years of use after being coated. Lifetime recoat warrantee, see website. I am only a happy customer. I just had some BMW headers done, havent mounted them yet but am expecting good results. They certainly are beautiful.

 

[B2400]

The paste that you're referring to is SEMICHROME, I believe. We use to use it at our motorcycle dealership with limited results. Another old trick is to paint the inside of your exhaust a high temp white as it helps reflect some heat away from metal pipe and will give a little longer margin before the chrome begins to blue.

 

[5030]

I checked the HPC website. The HPC coating seems to be pretty much what the Jet Hot coating is. I notice that the HPC website don't list any prices whereas the Jet Hot website does.

The temperature thresholds are almost exactly the same.