Header coatings, how necessary?

Treblig said
I remember Denver. Used to drive my car down the frozen streets, cut the wheel all the way to one side, pull the emergency brake and do 360s until the car came to a stop or I hit a curb!!!LOL
I also remember my lips and ears getting cracked from the low humidity. I thought it was cold in Denver until the military shipped me to Cheyenne, Wyo. Denver's a mile high, Cheyenne is 1000 ft higher. When I finally came back to South Texas I swore I would never live in that freezing cold again.
But one good thing...that's where I fell in love with Mopars, had a Roadrunner (383, 4spd), Belvedere, Dodge W350 4 X 4, 3/4 ton (or one ton) military truck, all original 1970 440 6 pack challenger w/shaker hood, '67 Barracuda 273, 4 spd...all while I was stationed there.

When I finally left for home (Texas) I had to leave behind 5 complete 440 engines that I had collected. I remember paying $100 a piece at the junk yard. Didn't have room or weight capacity in the U-Haul for them.

Treblig

Lol if you think Rocky Mountain winters are tough try the Northeast... I'm originally from central Pennsylvania and winters there are AWFUL, the sky will literally be overcast for weeks straight with an occasional sunny day. And the higher humidity coupled with the denser air being closer to the coast makes it "feel" a lot colder than the temperature would have you think. I'll take Colorado winters any day, can't complain when you got world-class skiing to enjoy ha.

I'm tossing more ideas around in my head now, I'm thinking of trying to change out the header collectors myself in the meantime as one is already bent up and leaking from hitting the pipe on bumps so many times. Only tricky part would be welding it up to the old pipes but I might be able to take it somewhere to have that done after I cut off the old ones.