Wrapping more than the header
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No, I wouldn't do it. It will eventually rust even if it is stainless steel. You will be trapping a lot of moisture in the tape when it's wet and it will stay moist for a while just eating away at it. Unless there is a reason you have to wrap somewhere, like your header gets to hot and can melt something you shouldn't wrap the header.
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Originally posted by Supraru
No, I wouldn't do it. It will eventually rust even if it is stainless steel. You will be trapping a lot of moisture in the tape when it's wet and it will stay moist for a while just eating away at it. Unless there is a reason you have to wrap somewhere, like your header gets to hot and can melt something you shouldn't wrap the header.
No, I wouldn't do it. It will eventually rust even if it is stainless steel. You will be trapping a lot of moisture in the tape when it's wet and it will stay moist for a while just eating away at it. Unless there is a reason you have to wrap somewhere, like your header gets to hot and can melt something you shouldn't wrap the header.
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Ok, stainless steel can't rust? Tell that to my friend with his mustang. He has stainless steel headers for his car and hasn't driven it in a year and a half. Those headers are rusted. They are not mild steel they are full stainless. It's not even just a top layer, it has to be sent out and coated. So don't sit there and tell me that there is no possibility it can't rust. The Titanic was the unsinkable ship, but it sank. 
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yes some, SOME, stainless will rust if it has iron in it which most of the time this is for a specific application that requires it to have different properties than normal stainless but it is also cheaper that said and it being for a mustang which there are alot of different makes for a mustang and price is keep low so using a lower grade of stainless will do that but it will then rust
good stainless will corrode not rust
good stainless will corrode not rust
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