I bought these TTI headers uncoated which is the cheapest way you can buy them. They are the normal nickle coating. We have a set of the nickle headers on my sons Dart that have been on it since 1997 and they look a little worse then these. His have some small rust spots but not bad for headers almost 20 years old. These here TTI's I put on my 63 in 2011 as they ahve been on my 63's eng for about 4 years. You can see they have blued a little but not bad as they are still in good shape. Yes the ceramic coated are better but it cost a little more and my budget was tapped out when I bought these as thats why I did not get them coated. But I have no complaints as they are holding up fine for being just the nickle made headers. Ron