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[Breen60 (Paul Breen)]

I didn’t do any good with VHT aerosols on our XJ6 - it flaked and peeled. Just used pot belly stove paint.

Success with manifold paint

Should I be so bold? The below picture is of my XJ6 exhaust manifolds after about 1500 miles. In the finish I gave up on the “high temp” and “ultra high temp” aerosols and went with a generic brand of pot belly paint I found in my mother-in-law’s garage. No outrageous claims on the can: perhaps it’s a case of underpromising and overdelivering? Just need to condition the new paint by adding progressively more heat over a few cycles. If I wipe it over it powders a little on the cloth, if I have to…