[750hp]

The main problem I had with HPC Coating was that the coating failed during my dyno testing. If they told me this in the first place, I would have waited until after the dyno... They took the pipes back, and redid them at half price, but the gloss appearance dulled permanently after the motor ran lean at idle (blower disconnected, and the engine had never been tuned to run without the blower).

I got a bit carried away with my obsession about keeping my feet cool. Extending my driver's side footbox forward 8" meant that cylinders 2, 3 and 4 are all nearly touching the footbox. To counter this, I have the alum foil/fibreglass woven material bonded to BOTH sides of the footbox. Then there's a 1/2" airgap to the attached alloy panels. The exhaust pipes are HPC coated inside and out, and finally I have header wrap on the portions of pipe that run closest to the footboxes.

I can drive the car without shoes, and not feel the slightest bit of heat. I love it. Some people say that header wrap will damage the headers over time, but the material is so effective in reducing heat that I think losing some of the life of the headers is a fair trade-off (if in fact it does make the headers rust prematurely).