Hooker longtube/header wrap question

[fejwe]

I'm finally getting close to installing my headers. They've got the ceramic coating, but I'm wondering if I should also get header wrap for them, and if I do, is 50 feet by 2" wide enough for the headers, or would I need more?

Thanks in advance,
T

 

[19mustang95]

I've heard that header wrap damages the ceramic coating..just what i have heard though, no personal experience.

 

[4.6snakedoc]

I have stainless steel headers. what are the advantages of ceramic over SS?

 

[Tabres]

Hooker recommends that you don't use header wrap. Moisture gets underneath it and prematurely causes rust.

 

[03CobraJet]

My hookers have rusted at the lower parts of the tubes and at the collecters. They only have 7000 miles on them, I wish that I would have went with SLP. I would think SS would not rust up as much.

 

[JP96cobra]

I have had the ceramic coated hooker headers for a couple years now and the coating is almost all off and the headers have rusted. If I were to do it again I would send them out to a reputable place to have them ceramic coated perfessionally and not the garbage coating that hooker does. They started to flake after a couple of months on the car.

 

[Ciotti]

Header wrap will keep the heat in and make a bit more power and torque, but it will cut the life of your headers in half because of all the rust that will form under the wrap.

 

[PSUCOBRA96]

you can remove your headers and send them off to jet hot to get re-coated if they are all rusted, something to think about over the winter