Just wanted to show off my new Classic Inline headers. I've been wanting a set for quite awhile and finally made the move. I bought the steel ones and coated them with POR-15 "Factory Manifold Gray" which is supposed to be good to 1400 degrees.
Thanks to Jeff and Pat for letting me use their sandblaster and paint gun. From what I've read, others who have had success with this coating said to use clean blasting media so I bought a jug of 70 grit black aluminum oxide. Then scrubbed it good with acetone and flashed it with a propane torch before painting.
Put a light, even coat on with Pat's HVLP gun and then baked it at 500 degrees for 1/2 hour. I have a friend who let me use his pottery kiln for this.
Install was pretty easy. I had to grind one hole on the flange a little and one of the nuts was a too close to a weld bead but everything cleared and I was able to install the starter after the headers were in.
Took it to Ballard Muffler and had all new pipes and muffler installed. I was going to just hook into the old system but once he got it up on the lift, we decided it would be better to change everything to 2" pipe and relocate the muffler. I originally had it in it's stock location between the gas tank and leaf spring but since I but in a larger Mustang tank it has always been a very tight fit. Went with a flat oval style muffler located forward of the rear axle.
Lots of details I won't get into but ask questions if you have any. Now that I have the drive train where I want it, I can finally tune the Weber and maybe recurve the dizzy. I had a bung welded in so I can hook up Pat's wide band O2 sensor which really helps with the tuning.
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How is the performance? Can you feel it in your butt? The coating looks good to, let us know how well it holds up.
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