Dumb question here. What's the purpose? I like the way they look but is it reducing radiant heat or what? Never mind, I went to their website and found out for myself. Reduces radiant heat thus creating extra HP from increased speed of gases. In laymen's terms. JET-HOT Sterling will normally boost power when applied to headers for two reasons. First, the coating promotes denser, more potent fuel/air charges by insulating the engine bay from exhaust heat. At the same time, it accelerates the pulsed-vacuum effect on “tuned” headers, resulting in more effective scavenging of cylinders. The increased velocity of exhaust gases produced by higher exit inertia not only clears each cylinder more quickly; it also draws in the next fuel/air charge more efficiently.
Thinking about doing this myself now, anyone have any comment? A lot of Hooey or does it actually reduce temps. Thinking of doing that with the Staintunes and Motard headers. Don't know whether to do the headers black if I do it, to dissapear; or do the sterling silver to match the Staintunes....
atleast it looks better than header wrap.it probaly works with heat reduction. any gains in hp will probaly be minumal only noticable to race teams.but if your gonna spend the money on aftermarket headers may as well protect them. and any reduction in heat is a plus
I did the header wrap thing mostly to keep from frying my Penske shock, since the pipes are damn close. I would have done the Jet hot thing AND the header wrap if I had known about the Jet hot stuff earlier. - Yeah, in theory, the hotter you keep the exhaust gases the less viscosity the gas has and the faster the gas can exit from the system and results in higher/faster flow. Faster flow = more power. I dunno how much the header wrap adds but it probly just a horse - the bike runs damn good though, just slams to the redline. MD
I've been thinking of doing it to the stock pipes on some of my bikes, just to keep them from rusting away, and who cares about any performance gains?
Less interested in out and out HP and more in heat disipation, smoothness and sound -- and the coolness factor of course. The Motad headers are stainless steel, so I don't think I have to worry about them as far as protection. But also thinking if I am going to do the Staintunes, the Motad Headers, with Jet-Hot, & the Power Commander; I might as well do the FPR & the pair valve block off and go whole hog and get it all done at once. I would either have the most powerful, smoothest, least V-Tec impacted VFR around:biggrin: ; or I will have something that is nearly unrideable as all the different components struggle to work with each other...
So would it change how the bike runs though? Making it run even leaner? or would it richen it up a little? I would guess the first, but have been wrong before....
For my car I did black high temp Jethot on the exhaust mani and turbo exhaust housing, with Swain Tech ceramic on the cat and down pipe. I would do Swain on everything if I were to do it over again. Cost was about the same. Swain was quicker and had cheaper shipping charges. And yes there is a noticable temp reduction. Photos here http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/shawfm/Ko4 installed/
