im think i broke some thing help

[Anonymous]

Ihave a falcon that had a really bad exuast gasket leak. like i had no exuast comming out of the tail pipe. So today I fixed the leak I put a new gasket on and had the maifold painted.

I started it sounded great drove it for 5 min and pushed my car home. Ihe manifold ran so hot it started to burn off the paint i put on. what happed could it be a bad mulffler? I have no gauges so i dont know what temp it was running at.

 

[MLINE]

Ya, paint always burns off the exhaust manifold within the first few minutes. There are some ceramic coatings that will take it.

 

[Asa]

usually the manifold does burn off the paint, what kind of paint did you use?
not sure i'm reading it correctly, are you saying that because the paint burnT off you pushed the car home? well if that's the only reason you did that, it looks like you got som un-necessary exercise...
i wouldn't be worried 'bout the paint burning off, that's usually to be expected

 

[Anonymous]

i pushed it home because ther was smoke comming at me i used dupli- color engine enamel. so u think its the paint i am so glad to here that i thought i broke something

 

[XFlow_Fairlane]

you have to use a hi temp paint on exhaust....1200* at least

 

[Anonymous]

Engine enamel is not going to stay on a manifold... gets WAY hotter than the paint is rated for... once it is all toast the smoke will stop and you will have a nice little cleaning job on the underside of the hood....

You can ceramic coat them, but I say go headers if you are going to spend that kind of money...

 

[Anonymous]

Go to a store that specializes in Wood Burning Fireplaces etc. They will have the 1200 Deg paint needed for your manifold.


Bill

 

[x21]

Yeah man- u need real engine paint for that... Just make sure you are over 18... Heaven forbid you spray $4 cans of spray paint everywhere. Shoot, you could deface a BBQ pit or the side of an active volcano with that stuff

 

[Anonymous]

The manifold burned off the paint because... that's what it does. You can put on all the coats of engine enamel paint you want, within 15 minutes of driving, it's all melted off clean! Sorry, just not much you can do about it - there is some ceramic engine paint rated at 1700 degrees that you could try, but even still, I wouldn't get my hopes up