Any advise would be great...

"Stupid move...shouldn't have done that"

Do it.


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Find someone who is good at it, and pay them to so it......


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Call Kings Powder coat and Polish ...
They will polish , then clear powder coat it....
Boom!
Done!
No problems, just solutions.

-beerjet-

Chrome.
Powder Coat.
Polish.

-beerjet-

ha.  yeah.  maintaining polished metal can get old.  if you let it sit for too long....youll have more work cut out for you to bring back the "chine".  this is where clear powder coating comes in...

i had a lead on a powder coater.  (is that a word?)  havent talked to him in awhile, but he used to give killer deals on black satin or gloss powder.  ill see if i can reach him...get an idea for some of these parts....

stay tuned....til next time....same bat time.....same bat channel....

Just my $.02,  I was too cheap to spend $150 to have J&M speedcenter polish my SBC Vortec PerformerRPM intake, so I spent over $300 on sanding rolls, flapper wheels, etc. and after days of grinding on it, it still wasn't anywhere near shiny.  Of course then Edeljunk came out with an AirGap RPM the very next month and I had to buy a new intake.  This time I spent the $150, but the polished mowed all the detail off of the casting.
 
After polishing all my boat aluminium, I had Embee spray it with their clear ceramic coating.  It has lasted without dulling and doesn't turn milky like clear powdercoat.  Techline Coatings makes a clear to put over bare polished metal and I am sure that Kings offers a similar process.  If you hate polishing as much as I do, look into a clear coat.

Another alternative would be zinc coating.  Embee did a really killer black zinc coating on Larry Merisch's top alcohol dragster induction.

Cheers,

Joe

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id agree with flusher.  i havent had experience with clear powder or clear ceramic....but i can believe that the clear powder would change somehow.  also....some times....it can be cheaper to do yourself....if you already own 90% of supplies for the job....otherwise tooling up can negate out sourcing it....unless you foresee doing the work multiple times.  you know....

theres a spot down here that has done some polishing for me.  Deans metal polishing.  i had them do some porsche alloys for my bug some time ago.  came out great.  no clear coat of any kind.  dont know if they offer it.  also dont know if they will do headers.  worth giving them a call.  at the time they were easy to work with....dont quite remember....couldve been 60   or 110 per wheel to polish. that included stripping what paint was on them. 

let us know which route you take.

ah....my mistake....

Well what I meant was I need a place to get my headers ceramic coated and the covers possibly powder coated.

"Stupid move...shouldn't have done that"