I'm thinking about painting my intake tubing 'cause it's looking pretty nasty and i'd figure since some headers come ceramic coated (for better heat insulation > to maintain exhaust velocity > better power gains) doing the same for intake tubing would protect it from the radiant heat in the engine bay. Anyone know where one can get some? Or maybe my concept is flawed?

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Your concept is flawed. The paint that is supplied for headers is high temp paint to protect them from corrosion, not from heat or from radiating heat.

To get the protective properties of ceramic coating...you need to have it ceramic coated, or wrap it with thermal heat wrap.

 

Sooooooo, ceramic coating wouldn't be the solution? Is there anything on the market i can spray that can keep the air flowing through the intake piping cool when things get hot?

 

Random said,

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[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: Phantom ]

 

Rich-

Sorry, the topic was "paint that insulates" so I had though you were thinking of using "header paint" on your intake. That would not really work.

If you are refering to ceramic coating your intake, that WOULD work. Heat wraping the intake also works, and is usually much cheaper, but looks like ASS. Ceramic coating would make it look pretty.

[ March 01, 2002, 08:29 AM: Message edited by: Random ]

 

Actually, if you do the heat wrap well and paint it (patiently with multiple coats of high-temp paint), it can look quite good. The trick is patience, but you'll never have that powder-coated look. However, the asbestos heat wraps will work much better than ceramic coating of the outside (can't say for coating inside and out, though).

ac

 

Yeah, i was talking about ceramic coating my intake. I'd figure there was some kinda miss-communication somewhere! tongue.gif Oh well. I'd figure it would work regardless becuase of the properties of ceramic coating. I have a friend who works at a performance shop that has access to a glass beading machine. Back when i had my Escort, he ported the intake plenum and glass beaded it. It looked great! I'm sure he can do my intake piping as well, but it's probably not going to do @#$! for insulating. It'll make it look like cast aluminum though! Kinda different!

 

Rich, at what performance shop does your friend work? I'm visiting a bunch in northern Virginia, to hopefully find one I like. While JCWhitney, SummitRacing, and some others are great, there's something to be said for driving somewhere, looking at the product, and then buying it. I don't want to order hoses and fittings only to find they don't work. DOH!

I'm also going to need a dyno tune after the turbo goes on, and may need someone to make a downpipe for me (I'm going to try a crack at welding myself - I used to be pretty good).

just curious.
ac

 

Hey Curtis, if your looking for a place to dyno or have some turbo work/tuning done, i totally recommend a place in Richmond called Rosen Autosports. Great friendly people and knowledgable. A very good Tuning resource. I was the first Tiburon they dynoed! As soon as i get my 4-2-1 headers (which should be here anyday now) i'm going to get them installed and dynoed right away! I ordered those dumb headers Feb. 26th and Mar. 8th which is this fri. will be 10 days so i'm hoping they'll be here. I'm going drag racing the 15th of Mar. at the Dinwiddie Drag strip off of I64 so hopefully my stuff will be ready!

Rich.

 

I'll be down in Richmond next weekend visiting some friends. I'll try to swing by and see what they have. Unfortunately, it's a 2 hour drive, so I don't know if I want that kind of milage on my "turbo" before it makes it to the dyno for tuning.

But who knows, I'll talk to them and see.

ac