Agree with Bernie's opinion and comments regarding Swain Technology and their proprietary process. Seems there are many coatings referred to as ceramic, but after reading Swain's narrative on the web site the difference will become apparent.
Swain's coating has the finish of medium to rough sandpaper, i.e. the ceramics. Using the CC search feature,there are previous Threads on the subject.
The local UPS Store fabricated the shipping carton for my side pipes and Swain returned them in the same carton. I sprayed the white, only color available, with VHT black, since my desire was to have a black "ceramic "
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Swain refers to their process as " White Lighting Exhaust Coating '
http://www.swaintech.com/store.asp?pid=10969