I have some VHT left over from a motorcycle exhaust - was just going to spray and let it cure on the truck as best it can. It sounds a lot more complicated than I suspected.

Also, I ordered a SMA t-shirt for good luck LOL

 

Haha, well perhaps it's gotten better. It didn't work well in the past for headers. Cooked off my install years ago within a few days. Spent some time stripping that assembly paint that comes on the headers. Waste of time. For my buddys install we changed things up. We went with oven instructions vs on vehicle instructions. That worked, night and day results. No cook-off, smoke or sizzle. But man, it sure does stink during the process regardless. When cook curing his we didn't think it was going to work, it stunk, same stench mine made. It stuck though except at the EGR port. We could keep the headers at 600* , well very close to it, but the EGR port was in the high 700's right were the EGR fitting was. Nothing we could do about that.

I doubt I'll paint, but damn sure going with stainless hardware. That's a done deal, - it's getting SS Torca sleeve clamps as well. If the 98 needs an engine at some point, hopefully the exhaust won't slow things down so much. I guess we'll see lol.

Did the VHT hold up on the bike?

 

Yes, the VHT has held up well on the bike exhaust but it's never going to see salt, probably not even rain if I can help it.

I'm curious how the cookie pads will work on cleaning the head. I put some jb weld on the manifold last year to block a hole where some of the gasket had blown out. That jb weld held very well to the aluminum. It was easy to chip it off the cast iron but I'm going to have to do something different to get it off the head. I think I can scrape it off with a razor blade a little at a time.

 

Haha

 

she runs ! and is so quiet with the new manifold and right side exhaust

yahoo !

i'm going to let it run for a while and then recheck the torque on the manifold

 

Another huge fan of SMA here as well, that guy knows is stuff, not to mention he's pretty funny too