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A Corvette Guy was completely confident that a special paint at about $40 a quart was good to restore the headers on his '65 covertible. I'm gonna wait and see what his headers look like & if I don't get insight from you guys I will report back in a few months. We drive our cars to the office on Fridays if the weather is good. (It's good to keep the bearing seals wet with fluids, I think, and only puts 800 +/- miles on per year.) So I should know in a few months. Headers gotta run hotter than mufflers, by at least a few 100 degrees, given that headers don't get the same air flow cooling as the exposed ANSA mufflers, poximity to the engine block, etc., right? So, if his headers don't flake, the ANSA's won't flake, I'm thinking. I was looking at some Group IV's (just on the 'net) and thought those ANSA's looked like Stainless Steel, are they? I was looking at my '73, hoping they were S.S. so I could just polish off the paint, but they don't appear to be S.S. I thought about chrome, but the Kawasaki Ninja motor cycles and Harley Davidson motorcycles with chromed exhausts seem to discolor.... Jet Hot seems to be a reliable way to go, but I wonder if there are alternatives, I don't want to keep the BEAST locked up while it's vocal chords are shipped off!!!!