I have decided to perform an exploratory head removal to determine what if any modifications have been made, as I have no history of any work done to this car... I'm intending to end up with gasket matched cleaned up runners and light porting, over sized valves, and a head shave when done (Yeah I hear you now, a little of the top, blah, blah, blah) hopefully yielding a bit more compression, and better breathing. Presently the highest compression readings were around 140 psi, the lowest 125 psi.

While the head is off, I would like to paint the lightly rusted & pitted Clifford Headers to clean things up a bit under the hood. Any suggestions as to what to use for paint on the headers, as well as the Clifford intake manifold?

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67' Dart GT Convertible; the old Chrysler Corp.
82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

The hi-temp paint won't stick to rust.........

And the special paint that will stick to rust (POR-15) flakes off with heat...........

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

You'll need access to a bead blaster,just did mine a few months back(I've got a friend with a nice cabinet blaster). I used VHT high temp black on the headers and VHT engine paint on the intake.So far everything is holding up real good. Both my intake an headers are the clifford units and the header paint flaked off like right now when first installed so the VHT is a major inprovement.

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83 B-150 slant 6,4 speed. 79 B-300 360 pathfinder 4x4. 74 W-300 318 4x4 git-r-done 80 B-100 sl6,4speed

has anyone tried this TLC colorguard ceramic paint from Eastwood?

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?item ... pe=PRODUCT

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-76 Cordoba, 360 4bbl
-68 Valiant, 273 2bbl
-67 Dart /6 4bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!!

I've tried the autoparts store's high temp paint spray paint; lasted about only minutes of driving despite very careful prepwork. POR-15 does make a high-temp paint; I've bought some, but not tested it yet. The standard POR-15 silver didn't hold up well (some hours of driving) on my exhaust and mufflers except for the exhaust tips, where it still looks great.

The POR15 hitemp paint isn't a rust bonder like their other paint.

Still need to get rid of all the rust for it to adhere.

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes