So I'm working on project broke-*** blackout with my street bob, and I was wondering; would using BBQ high heat spray pain be ok to use to black out my exhaust? It says it's good up to 1200 degrees, so I don't see why it wouldn't, anyone ever try this?

 

**** will burn right off the first 18" of pipe right off the bat. On my old bike I bbq painted the stock heat shields, replaced the slip-ons with 1 3/4" exhaust pipe from oreilly's and bbq painted those too. They looked good for about a year but when the weather turned cold and after a few rides I noticed the paint started cracking. I ended up repainting the tail sections and cleaning the heat shields back to the original chrome. I kinda liked the 2 tone exhaust effect. I also painted the rocker covers, same deal with them, they started cracking too but I ended up powder coating em.

 

What you need to do is use rubbing alcohol to remove any oil deposits from your hands, after you paint them start it up let it run for a minute, then do this again for 4 or more times. Use to take and spray inside of the pipe also with a silver or white high temp paint because they reflect heat and black absorbs heat.

 

Oily hands only cause "fish eyes" in the paint, that wasn't a problem I had. I also did some warm up cycles to help cure/ bake the paint on before taking it out a day later for a ride getting it all the way up to temp. Single layer pipe will burn paint off the first 18" of pipe on the first ride you take it out on. Also you could paint the inside of your pipes white/silver all day long and after an hours worth of riding they will be black again so I would suggest not wasting your time and money with that one. Besides that, the hotter the inside of your exhaust is the faster the air will flow. As much as it sucks I would just suggest trying to find a good deal on some used pipes to buy. I know thats not what you want to hear but if you don't want to keep messing with it doing touch ups and possibly stripping them completely down and re doing them once a year then thats what its gonna take... or send your stuff off for a ceramic coating?