Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Three Wheeler & Super 3 Wrapped headers, removed cats and exhaust baffles

Here's a more representative photo of the ceramic coated headpipes. From my experience with this particular coating product from my local powder coater, it takes thousands of miles over several years to show appreciable dulling. On my occasionally tracked Lotus Elan (so much more high rpm running) the dulling effect occurred more rapidly than on my more sedately driven E-type. Both of those cars have the ceramic over stainless steel tubular manifolds, so similar to the Morgan.

These pipes have only a few minutes of idling time on them to check for leaks. It will be a couple of months before the snow is gone and roads are clear enough for a real run in.

One of the downsides to coating the head pipes is the color mismatch with the rest of the stainless exhaust. The ceramic coating is closer to polished aluminum (whiter) than the more bluish-brown of the stainless. The woven mesh of the flex couplings were simply masked off during the coating process, btw.