Took a look at the headers today after a night of drivin around tryin to get the brain to learn the fastman. All the black paint is gone, and now its bare metal. looks like complete ****.

neon- this happen to you?

 

I'm sorry I didn't chime in when you said you were getting them! But, as far as what I've read on this forum, those are not the ones I would buy for my truck. Unless I was selling it or plan to replace them in 2 years or so. You get what you pay for you know?

 

I think Neon paid extra for the coated ones.

 

Personally with headers I'd either coat em or put a thermal wrap on them. No experience with the pacesetters, but normal paint just isn't going to stay on a set of headers.

 

I've never liked the ideas of Pacesetters. I know I've just heard one after another bad thing about their headers until these long tubes came along and I heard a few good things about these but I'm still weary due to the horrible reputation the others had.

 

From everything I've read here and elsewhere, the Pacesetter longtubes that are coated (silver ceramic, I believe) are pretty good. Any header that isn't coated someway is just asking for trouble, IMO.

 

yeah thats what i thought. im gonna have to paint em or wrap em. damnit.

i should have spent the extra money, but damn 450 bucks for that + the y is expensive enough already.

 

i do LOVE the fast man though...

 

I really think you would have been much better off with the coated long tubes. But honestly what can you really expect when you pay the price we did for long tubes, they are cheaper for a reason. I personally like having the pacesetter long tubes versus running shorties, but if I had the money I'd call up southeast rt. I do really hope they don't rust up on you, maybe you can pull them and get them coated. good luck.

 

That's not a "defect", it's to be expected. It's not a Pacesetter thing either. I've had other headers do the same thing. That paint is only to keep the headers from rusting on the shelf. It WILL burn off. Now, it would be nice if they informed people of that in the ads, so you could decide if you want to deal with stripping and refinishing.

Never try painting OVER that paint with high temp paint either. The paint will still burn off, and stink, and take a little longer to make a bigger mess, taking the "good" paint with it. Don't ask how I know.

You can buy Pacesetter long tubes ceramic coated, or you can buy them from Jet Hot who does their own coating process.