Painting the Exhaust, corrosion protection

Modshack

I did the rear of mine, just because I didn't like the shiney can showing under the valence. Flat black BBQ paint stealthed it out..

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Kyle@STILLEN

As it has been stated you won't have to worry about the corrosion penetrating all the way through and actually causing leaks or anything like that. And if that does happen, just send me some pictures and we will send you a new system.

My recommendation for painting the exhaust would be lots and lots of newspaper. If you decide to paint the parts on the car then just line the underside with news paper. Don't worry about the newspaper being really pretty or anything like that. It's only going to be on there for a little while. I've masked off roll cages and what not in the past and the important thing is making sure the area that you're painting has plenty of area around it for you to paint and that anything you don't want painted is covered up. It really doesn't matter how pretty the masking job is since it's only going to last a few minutes.

One thing to keep in mind is that you will have to deal with some overspray if you don't do a really thorough job of masking. If it were me, I would simply remove the exhaust from the car and re-install it later. The finish will be a lot nicer and the overall time will be a lot shorter.

spearfish25

Thanks, Kyle. In the essence of laziness, I probably won't be pulling the exhaust off the car to paint it. I'll see what the rest of the winter brings in the way of surface corrosion. Fortunately, the underside of the car doesn't see much daylight (and it better stay this way through track day season).

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Zxces50

[QUOTE=Modshack;385537]I did the rear of mine, just because I didn't like the shiney can showing under the valence. Flat black BBQ paint stealthed it out..

Yea I was thinking of blacking out the can too- pipes all black just cosmetic not worried about rust - just wanted the tips to be visual

JB1

Nice, I might do the same when I get my Berk CBE. What did you do to prep? Just clean and flat black BBQ paint or did you use a base paint as well?

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Modshack

Just a good clean-up, some minor masking and spray the parts that show. Took maybe 10-15 minutes max.

I did this on another car with a similar set-up and 5 years later it still looked great. When I went to sell the exhaust, a bit of solvent and it came right back to shiny stainless..

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