NEVER SEIZE ON HEADERS? YES OR NO?

[mindshark13]

A FRIEND RECENTLY VISITED IN HIS 73 ROADRUNNER. AS I WAS OBSERVING THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT I NOTICED THE SILVER ON THE HEADERS. I ASKED IS THAT HEADER PAINT? TO WHICH HE REPLIED NOPE ITS NEVER SEIZE. KEEPS THEM FROM RUSTING?
SO IS THIS A FLORIDA THING OR MAYBE AN OLD DRAGSTRIP TRICK?

 

[69L48Z27]

New to me. Anti-seize is for threaded connection not an anti rust coating.

Sounds messy.

 

[steve from staten island]

Anti seize or the name brand "Never Seize" is for threads and a staple when i worked in the power house. Coating it on headers sounds like a mess and it as far as i know was not designed for that.... Now for a funny story..... happened maybe late sixties. We were running coal as a fuel in the power house and anybody who knows what I'm talking about knows what a dirty nasty place the PH was back then. So in the coal yard is a system of conveyor belts and equipment. At certain locations there were these little shacks big enough for one or two guys, like a bigger closet in a house. It was a place with a phone and usually had a little electric heater to get warm in. A guy i knew decided to paint the inside and took a can of never seize, thought it was paint and got a brush and painted the entire inside of the shanty. The foreman saw it and threw a fit. Took a lot of rags to clean up the mess but laugh? Guys laughed about that and kidded the guy who did it for a very long time

 

[1967coronet440]

Anti seize or the name brand "Never Seize" is for threads and a staple when i worked in the power house. Coating it on headers sounds like a mess and it as far as i know was not designed for that.... Now for a funny story..... happened maybe late sixties. We were running coal as a fuel in the power house and anybody who knows what I'm talking about knows what a dirty nasty place the PH was back then. So in the coal yard is a system of conveyor belts and equipment. At certain locations there were these little shacks big enough for one or two guys, like a bigger closet in a house. It was a place with a phone and usually had a little electric heater to get warm in. A guy i knew decided to paint the inside and took a can of never seize, thought it was paint and got a brush and painted the entire inside of the shanty. The foreman saw it and threw a fit. Took a lot of rags to clean up the mess but laugh? Guys laughed about that and kidded the guy who did it for a very long time

That **** is probaly still lingering, whenever I use it seems to follow me around for months!

 

[mindshark13]

The Anti seize probably got poured in an unmarked can.Back then pretty common. Sounds like a three stooges episode. LOL
I fell for the shaving cream on the pie prank when I was young.
I asked this guy if he did this before or after he installed the headers and he said before. The Anti seize was definetly baked on them for sure. Weird....

 

[Brandy]

You never know, there's a bunch of weird beliefs out there about stuff.

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Pretty much anything that prevents air (oxygen) from getting on the headers and doesn't burn off will keep them from rusting.....but there are MUCH better ways to do it.

 

[Daves69]

Oh YEAH!
The good stuff.................

 

[Mike67]

You always use a thread dressing when bolting to aluminum.
But when its steel/iron I like the copper anti-sieze, has a 1800 deg rating...

 

[PurpleBeeper]

You always use a thread dressing when bolting to aluminum.
But when its steel/iron I like the copper anti-sieze, has a 1800 deg rating...

I agree completely..... put PAINTING the headers with it? Sounds like old-school hillbilly engineering to me. I have met some pretty clever hillbillies in my day.

 

[Cranky]

News to me! Uh, ask him if the stuff smoked like hell at first! Never tried anything like that so I really don't know lol

 

[mindshark13]

I definitely will. This was a first for me too. I told him wow I do not think I would have thought of using that if I was asked to think of 10 ways I could keep headers from rusting?
Even on Top Fuel cars don't they use that tape that Summit and some of the Performance houses sell?

 

[Mike67]

I assumed you were talking about a small smear at the bolts from excess on them....are you saying the whole damn header was coated with it????

 

[mindshark13]

X 2 = both sides. I took 3 steps back when he told me... I've always treated any type of chemical that it's name ends in " COMPOUND " with much respect. My immediate thought was FLASHPOINT!
After wiping the nervous sweat from my forehead I asked very gently " did you paint the entire exhaust system with it also " ?