The aluminized will take longer till you ll see rust but it will rust too.
Painting aluminized steel exhaust.
Although aluminized steel is the better of the two money wise.
Your exhaust behind the headers will not get as hot as the headers and the paint will hold up quite well.
The hard part with exhaust painting is the expansion and contraction with the heat and cool makes the paint crack and flake.
Headers are hardest on the paints.
We have 2k aerospray engine paint as well for paint gun free applications.
It has a much more dull appearance than stainless steel does.
Aluminized steel is not as aesthetically pleasing or as rust resistant as stainless steel.
If you only take short trips the exhaust never gets hot enough to evaporate all of that moisture.
I m too poor for the expensive stuff.
I am not a fan of chrome on the track car so i used some of my spray painting skills to change.
In my basement you can hear water in the pipes.
Then i just touch up any scratches from install.
Follow the directions on the high heat spray s label to complete the curing process.
I use the brush on stainless steel header paint from eastwood.
Moisture collects inside the exhaust when it s cold.
Oem exhaust systems are typically aluminized steel and are way more common.
I d go with the aluminized and paint the welded areas as well as the seams bends and it ll look good for quite a while.
Our engine block paint comes in dozens of universal colors as well as oem shades such as old ford blue hemi orange and buick red.
Either will rust aluminized is just a steel pipe with a coating on the outside.
Been very happy with this method.
I ordered a new set of chrome tip muffler deletes from remark.
A common problem with aluminized steel exhaust is rusting from the inside out.
That moisture causes the inside of the system to rust.
June 06 2018 01 00 59 pm here in sunny kalifornia is there any advantage to painting new aluminized exhaust pipes other than the ll look pretty for awhile.
Using the same technique you used to apply the primer apply 2 3 light coats of high heat spray to the exhaust pipe.
If you thought the engine gets hot you should see the exhaust parts.
It has held up extremely well and has not chipped or flaked for me yet.
It has held up well over the years.
To or not to paint aluminized exhaust on.
I do take the time to clean the exhaust and paint it prior install.
