Are Ceramic Coated Mid Pipes Worth It

Jet hot coated was 450 degrees.

Are ceramic coated mid pipes worth it. Ceramic coating gives an extra ordinary higher life and resistance to corrosion at. I was looking at kooks or maybe american racing headers. Layout of headers is easy to determine just by looking at them. I have the money for them but feel like spending 2k on headers and mid pipe might be a waste.

Measured with an infrared temp tool about one inch from the exhaust port on a ktm 525 sx. Seems like it cost on average 50 more for just a muffler. I could get the bbk ceramic coated headers and mid pipe for half the. One example would be ceramic coating a heavy gauge oem pipe vs a thin aftermarket pipe like an aaen or a fabricated pipe.

There s a huge benefit in coating the aftermarket pipe in this scenario because the aftermarket pipe has little thermal efficiency. Bare lance pipe melts at temperatures of 1300 to 1500 o c 2400 to 2800 o f calorisation on ceramic coated pipe. Stock bare pipe was 925 degrees. Page 1 of 2 ceramic pipe coating posted in sledding general discussion.

Ms pipes are calorised on outer surface and are thereafter given ceramic coating on both inner and outer surface after the calorizing treatment. I am curious what makes a ceramic coated pipe better then one thats not. Another style of header pipe layout is the tri y design. If anyone is interested a few years ago i measured header pipe temps stock and with two different brands of ceramic coating.

Ran it same distance and was idling. They dont come coated. Is it worth it. On v 6 engine applications with 3 pipes per side the expression 3 into 1 would apply to this type of layout.

Swaintech was 340 degrees. One example i recall was a customer that had a yamaha srx 700 with aaen pipes. They appear to be pretty old and are leaking at some of the welds.