Reply With QuoteWhat heads are they? Keep a close eye on them, mine cracked a water jacket and leaked some water into the exhaust port...Luckily no damage as I caught it pretty quick.
I would leave them bare. Better yet have them polished.
Installing a new set of Aluminum Canfield heads and I would like to leave them raw aluminum. What have you folks experienced when not painted? This boat is salt water and fresh use. Should I paint them or not?
What heads are they? Keep a close eye on them, mine cracked a water jacket and leaked some water into the exhaust port...
I would leave them bare. Better yet have them polished.
No paint.
is this a closed cooling system boat? salt water can be murder on the heads if it gets in there. as for the exterior, leave them raw is the way i like em.
Open system cooling, raw water.... Salt away is my middle name now. I think I'll buy stock in it....
What heads are they? Keep a close eye on them, mine cracked a water jacket and leaked some water into the exhaust port...
I would leave them bare. Better yet have them polished.
Canfield 350 cc
have the water jackets coated. otherwise those heads wont last long at all.
have the water jackets coated. otherwise those heads wont last long at all.
X2. Salt away alone won't save them.
X2. Salt away alone won't save them.
i totally agree. save the cash and get a decent set of cast iron heads and work with those. salt water is a killer, trust me. i used to live right on the cliffs of palos verdes/san pedro and even everything turned to shit real quik from the salt air. hell even my guitar strings would rust and my guns? omg they were almost destroyed unless i wiped them every week. once you get salt water running through the engine, its a bear to keep them clean and erosion free. id look into a closed cooling system if it was me.
Canfield 350 cc
Me too. Didn't leak on the dyno, first time out though had water spewing out the weep hole in my bassetts. Crack was in #1 exhaust port. Im surprised I didn't break anything. They were pretty good about fixing it, was a "known" problem apparently. Good luck.
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