1 month old OBX LT's rusted!
This is in no way a bash of the OBX Longtube product, I absolutely love the headers and the extra power they have given me! And I would buy them all over again if I had to. I just wanted to post these up and show what happened to mine after one visit to the saltwater at the beach and only having them on my truck for one month! I drove through some mud/saltwater in the marsh area, rinsed them off the next day, and they look like this! No more pretty colors on them :( Just seems odd they would rust that fast since again they were bought and installed in december. I know saltwater is bad but i THOROUGHLY rinse/wash my truck after the beach. Has this happened to anyone else?
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Saltwater and intense heat have that effect on stainless steel I presume.
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Nope, I've got 3 years on mine, They are a pretty yellow/blue/purple combo.
I'll have to agree with salt + heat. I wonder if its a 409 stainless, 409 will look like that but not rust through. |
dang that upsets me, id always make everyone crawl under there just to look at my sweet colors too, but no more....
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That looks like black paint up towards the top. They weren't painted were they?
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No paint at all. Went from straight out the box to my truck.
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Originally Posted by Klitch
(Post 4480242)
Nope, I've got 3 years on mine, They are a pretty yellow/blue/purple combo.
I'll have to agree with salt + heat. I wonder if its a 409 stainless, 409 will look like that but not rust through. |
Try taking some stainless cleaner at a section with an old cloth. Maybe they are just surface stained
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Originally Posted by DarrenWS6
(Post 4480283)
Try taking some stainless cleaner at a section with an old cloth. Maybe they are just surface stained
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I'm still amazed how the salt water did that to you...
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Originally Posted by FATHERFORD
(Post 4480312)
I'm still amazed how the salt water did that to you...
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Do you have the real high flow cats or the resonators? And, a real seat of the pants power increase? How about mileage?
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Originally Posted by FX4 SilverScrew
(Post 4480325)
Do you have the real high flow cats or the resonators? And, a real seat of the pants power increase? How about mileage?
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I always painted my Street Rod headers with paint from Eastwood and and got good service from them without the rusting.
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id like to stay away from the painting though, im not too worried about them rusting through because when i go built and crank up the boost on the vortech im getting ill need headers with a 3" collector for better flow
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