My first muscle car build thread (lots of pics)

Really busy with my finals rite now so this is on hold until next friday.

I have also been wondering about what to do with my headers. They ceramic coating is already getting a bit of rust.

My thoughts are either paint them, which I am wondering if i can bead blast the ceramic coating off? and advice on painting them so the paint stays would be great.

OR

wrapping them. I have done some research and everyone ad their mother says oh they will rust your headers out faster. I looked at some failure pictures of wrapped headers and they did not look like they rusted out. Then I read a guys comment that said they get so hot with wrap that it melts the metal or it gets brittle from being so hot.

so I am leaning away from this at the moment. It would be really nice if there was a wrap that didn't hold the heat in and was purely aesthetic.

So I'm leaning towards painting them but that presents two issues.
How to get the coating off?
and
how to get the paint to stick good?

So help or advice would be appreciated there.

I am also going to look into putting a rack and pinion steering setup in the car. I probably won't be doing that on top of all the other stuff I have to do rite now but I am looking into it. I am thinking of going with a 82-85 celica/supra rack and pinion. It is a rear mounted rack. I have an 85 celica so i can measure the rack. I like the tightness and road feel of the rack in my celica. the dart is 600-700 pounds heavier so I imagine that would stiffen it up a bit. but in retrospect they used the same rack in supras which weighed close to 3,000 pounds. so i think it would work find in the dart as far as strength is concerned. Anyway I will try and research that more this summer.