Anyone using Hooker ceramic coated headers?

I bought the Hooker Comp "Darkside" coated headers.

The coating you get from them is not the same as the coating you'd get if you sent a set of uncoated headers off to Jet-Hot or the like. Mine were only coated on the outside (though there is "overspray" in the ports to make it appear coated on the inside), and the coating comes off pretty easily (and there's lots of stuff installing headers on an A-body that is going to make the coating come off).

Do NOT use the gaskets that come with the headers. They are crap. I have used Fel-Pros, but switched the Edelbrocks and don't see any reason to go back. I also bought a set of ARP 3/8 head bolts, which is a big time/knuckle saver.

I think coating is highly worthwhile as it has a measurable effect on engine compartment temperatures, which have a measurable effect on horsepower. That said, if I had it to do over again, I would have bought the headers, tweaked them to fit, and then sent them out for a "real" inside and out guaranteed coating job.

Steve