Ummm, I don't think you read my post right. This stuff withstands
ROCKET-THRUST and is guaranteed up to 2600 (yes, that's two thousand six
hundred) degrees farenheit. You'd be closer to melting your engine block
before this stuff would give way. SFT's sister company 'weaves' the same
stuff and it becomes the grout between the Space Shuttles heat tiles.
I fully admit that it might be very expensive, but I do know that many
professional drag racers, NASCAR and Indy/CART racers have had this stuff put
on lines/hoses in their motors. Like I said, I don't know if it's ever been
done to a set of headers, but I have seen a motor with all of it's hoses/lines
done in a combination SF2600/carbon composite mixed braid and it looked
beautiful. Yes it was a show car, but the guy must've had the money to spend.
Shaun
Tustin, CA
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I don't think you should use it on the headers. The headers themselves
will heat up and kill the coating. Standard ceramic coatings can go up
to about 1300deg. You can certainly use it to insulate other components
from the heat. I'm going to tie-wrap aluminum foil or something until I
can get some material from Summit.
I think the tubular headers have more surface area and therefore
transmitts more heat into the engine compartment. It's also not as thick
as wall on those iron log we got rid of.
Alan
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