holy Heat Exchanger brackets

nlterminator

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Noticed a little rust on my H/E brackets and pulled the bumper and hauled off the brackets tonight. What did ford paint these with? paint that rusts? My car has 25,000kms is a garage queen and these are starting to rust and rust bad! The rest of the car still has the paper tags and factory marks underneath.

Holding up the H/E after the brackets were off. They are empty so maybe thats why the job went a little slow LOL

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Id hate so see what they look like on cars driven in the winter or even rain for that matter.

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Even where the paint is fine, you sand it off and rust underneath. Im going to strip them down to bare metal.

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Wondering if i should paint or powder coat.
 
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greengt88

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I can't stand it when companies only make certain pieces of a system.....drives me bonkers. If ur gonna make headers why not make a catback? Ur gonna make a h/e...make a new bracket to mount it.
 

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Mine were the same way when I bought my car with 12k miles, and was mainly a garage queen.:rollseyes I'm pretty sure that the steel brackets were already rusty prior to Ford painting them, as they had rust under the finish as you discovered. I sandblasted, primed, and painted mine silver to match my new H/E, and they came out awesome. My car never gets wet, so I will probably never have to touch them again, unless it's just to re-coat from sand pitting, and bugs.
 

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I have my car up in the air and apart installing other powdercoated pieces and just noticed how aweful mine look. I wish I had time to get them powdercoated but it will have to wait.

I would recommend getting them media blasted and powdercoated and be done with them for good.
 

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Yeah, it would be awesome if someone made some fairly inexpensive aftermarket pre powdercoated brackets. I'm sure they would sell pretty well.
 

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