[Formulajones]

Yeah I'm not sure how you guys are having poor results with POR15 manifold paints or what went wrong but I've used that stuff for decades and just as B-man reports the results have been excellent.

In fact I have that stuff on the RA manifolds on my 70 bird that I daily drive. I don't know how many years it's been now but it's been a bunch with I'm sure thousands and thousands of heat cycles and they still look like the day I installed them.

All I did was glass bead them in the cabinet, blew them off with compressed air and applied POR-15 with a brush. Installed them on the car and run it. In fact that's all I've ever done when using this stuff and never had a bad result.

I also have access to ceramic powder coating and a giant oven that I'm doing on headers which works fantastic and I have a wide variety of colors to choose from. Could technically use it on manifolds as well but the POR15 is so easy to do I haven't found a need. The rough texture of the manifolds allows me to get away with just brushing the stuff on, where the headers really need a nice finish, so they get blasted and sprayed.