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Ceramic Exhaust Coating looks like stainless, withstands up to 1300 degreesF Coat your steel tube headers or cast manifolds with a true high-heat ceramic coating that looks like stainless steel.

Just apply, polish and cure
Ceramic coating withstands up to 1300 degreesF
Kit covers small-block V8 headers

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About TLC Colorgard Stainless Kit w/ polish 4oz

Coat and polish your steel tube headers and cast manifolds with an up-to-1300-degreeF, stainless-look, ceramic coating. Apply to gently blasted surface with a touch-up gun or airbrush, let dry, polish, then fully cure with exhaust heat . Do not bake this coating in an oven. Kit covers average small-block V8 headers.
Due to regulations pertaining to recycling, we are unable to ship this product to Alberta, Canada.

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Stainless-Look Ceramic Coating, 4-oz. can
Polish, 2.1-oz. can

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Eastwood's return policy is AWESOME! (Posted on 10/7/12) Review by Greg

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Tried this kit on my VW headers and it failed miserably. I sanded my TriMil headers and then cleaned them VERY well with PRE (metal prep $9), hung them on my rolling paint trolley, bought a new airbrush kit from Hobby Lobby ($95), and after reading the TLC directions about five times, laid out my stuff to get started. First thing that went wrong was the inner cap (pressed in under the screw-off cap) that blew "stainless" paint all over me, my bench, and my airbrush kit... they must send it pressurized.

Called Eastwood and they immediately sent me a new kit! Wow, what service! Anyway, I sprayed the first coat (directions say you only need one), but one doesn't coat well enough - you have to use the 1.5 nozzle (largest in my kit) to even get it to spray (like directions suggest, I didn't thin it). The coat was thin in places and thick in others - perhaps due to my inept airbrush technique - and even after trying to fill-in during 1st coat, it needed more later. When done, I let hang for a few days to cure and out gas.

Tried polishing by hand (directions say polish before installation - what a pain/substandard look, and AGAIN after final cure). No matter how hard I tried, EVERYTHING that comes into contact before installation - results in scratches, chipping, and marring. I gave up on hand polishing and bought some small conical cotton buffing pads for my drill and tried them. Ugh - no shine at all. The ugly "grey primer look" changed to a smooth grey primer look, except with even more blotches where the back of my battery drill touched a tube.

Yesterday, I took it all off in sheets with my knife, and then sanded with 240, re-PRE'pped, and shot with two cans of VHT hot paint. DONE!

Not Worth the Price (Posted on 8/20/12) Review by 427_Corvette_MD

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I'm usually a huge supporter of Eastwood products, but I cannot give the TLC Colorgard Stainless kit a good review (sorry). I used a detail gun to spray the product on my Hooker headers, re-installed and heat-cured the headers, and then removed and used a polishing wheel to buff the polish - with a '72 Camaro, it's a pain to remove-reinstall. After all that effort, the final result is mediocre at best. For the cost of this kit and shipping $49.94 (39.99 + 9.95), it's really not worth it. I also have a '69 Vette, and used a can of VHT extreme heat ceramic aluminum spray paint for the headers - they look great and have held up over the years. I'll likely re-spray the Hooker headers with the spray paint for better results.
A big disappointment - and a waste of $50.

Better off with a different coating (Posted on 6/28/11) Review by BestRacing

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I used this item on a set of Stainless Tri-Y headers for my Trans Am and at first it looked okay but not great. I don't drive the car often and it's only out in good weather. After two years it's not holding up.

Also the instructions for hand polishing, good luck as it took a die grinder with a buff to get these looking good.

great product (Posted on 1/15/11) Review by kwkslvr

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Tried this on my headers last spring. sprayed on perfect. One can easily covered both headers, still had some for touch-up. Motor let lose and sprayed oil all over the headers. Cleaned the baked on oil off with lacquer thinner and it came right off without hurting the coating! This stuff is great! Just bought another kit.

Needs lot's of elbow grease (Posted on 7/17/10) Review by Slant6Stan

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Nice product. Best if applied with an airbrush as the directions recommend. Once on I cured the coating by using a propane torch blowing into the the header tubes as opposed to installing and then uninstalling the headers. (What where they thinking when they wrote the instructions and said to install the headers and then run the engine for an hour then take them off! Obviously they never installed headers before!!) After the high temp cure for 30 minutes the hard work began. First tried a bench polisher but that was to much and took the finish off. Resprayed the "bruise" areas, recurred and then began with the hand method. That would have taken about a year so I broke out the cordless drill and a soft buff wheel. Viola! process was made and the shine came up. It takes time but when you consider the alternative to commercial ceramic hot coating you can't beat the price!!