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Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 9:34 pm
by jason frost
soulsurfer wrote:Looks great. will zinc plating prevent it from rusting?
Unfortunately powder coat will burn off, or, at least it did on my AF Clubman
Or is this some kind of high temp powdercoat?
And the zinc will burn off too, been there done that
just chrome without polish is better. Powder coat on the body will be OK but will burn where the hot gas hits. Now you know why they come with some oil on them
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 10:10 pm
by Grumpy225
Ceramic coat and forget about it. Paint and powder coat is a waste of time and money on an exhaust.
Pardon the dirt
5 years old on a factory Italian box with about 4k miles on it.
No chiping, flaking or discoloring. Looks just like factory. Had the headder pipe done also and it looks exactly like it did on day one.
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:53 am
by Muttley McLadd
What's wrong with BBQ paint?
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:53 am
by corrado
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 5:00 pm
by MarkH
VHT if you don't mind respraying every so often. Otherwise ceramic coat and be done with it. I would at the very least ceramic coat the u-bend on any exhaust. Powder coating will look like s**t eventually. But for coating and plating you got a bargain.
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:16 pm
by victor
What costs are we talking for ceramic? And can it be done to a used exhaust should it be sanded down to bare metal?
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:05 pm
by weedodger
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:31 pm
by Grumpy225
victor wrote:What costs are we talking for ceramic? And can it be done to a used exhaust should it be sanded down to bare metal?
About $80 back then probabbly around $100 now. The shop will blast the exhaust clean before coating it. So things like rust/paint/left over powder coating are not a problem. I like to have the old used exhausts hot tanked first to clean out all the oil and carbon before coating.
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 12:51 pm
by shep
Neilly67 wrote:Who did you use to plate the downpipe Shep?
A place close to me in Wolverhampton, as said above probably not the best solution but it was only a tenner so thought it might be worth a punt.
The AF clubman I've got on now was powder coated and apart from the first bit where the downpipe joins still looks ok after 2yrs.
Ceramic looks like the answer though.
Re: bgm/mb clubman exhaust
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:28 pm
by DaveTomo
Looks like there's clubmans suddenly appearing everywhere
