[DeTomaso] Anyone cooked their mufflers?

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

I touched up some freshly made welds and a clamp on my mc muffler to keep them from rusting. They sat for months after painting before I got a chance to ride the bike to produce the high temps. So far the paint has not flaked off. I did the same to some factory welds on my new daily driver muffler and it seems to have held up despite waiting a day or two to drive the car. This was in the middle of winter too and was done on the rearmost muffler so temps were not likely very high the first couple of months anyway.

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles McCall" <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
To: <DeTomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Anyone cooked their mufflers?


> I'm touching up my mufflers... painting the cans black with high temp paint.
> Supposed to be good up to 800C. 
> 
> Instructions say to paint the item and then cure at 200C for an hour. The
> instructions say this is to dry it completely. Any educated guesses as to
> the necessity of this? I probably won't have my car driveable again for a
> couple more weeks. Should I wait until I can drive it until painting the
> mufflers? Or will the two weeks sitting be enough for the paint to dry
> completely? 
> 
> Any guesses? The Texas boys that cut their mufflers open - any ideas? 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Charles McCall
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