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Old 09-02-2013, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
I had forgotten, but when I was outlining my overall build with Peter P., I had originally spec'd black ceramic coated primary pipes to match my side pipes. Peter was pretty adamant that I change them to silver, which I did. He said the black primary pipes just didn't hold up.
I'm thinking more and more about silver for the header pipes (primaries). I don't think it will be that noticeable if the collector is black. This was my first experience with ceramic coating and my first impression of that black was that it wasn't nearly as tough as I had expected. It would scratch real easily. I hear of guys taking steel wool and stuff to their ceramic pipes as if they are nearly impervious to anything. The black was more like an epoxy finish.

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