At one point in time i saw someone with a black intercooler...Just wondering if anyone knows who makes it. I thought the stealth aspect was pretty cool. If anyone knows please let me know

 

Krylon.

 

You can either paint it black, use black pantyhose, or have it anodized. I painted my old intercooler and now am running a full-race anodized intercooler. I think full-race is the only company that offers it on their intercoolers but I could be wrong.
Here is a pic of mine with the full-race FMIC on. I have pics at home of it without the front end.

Larry

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Modified by B18C4-T at 8:37 PM 7/18/2006

 

http://full-race.com has a nice black anodized FMIC.

 

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As in the paint or thats who makes it?

 

Oh forgot to refresh my screen...Got it thanks guys

 

wouldnt paint fight the heat dissapating ability of the alum? isnt that why intercoolers are alum in the first place?

 

Anodizing an itnercooler is probably the best way to get the intercooler black, and still keep the heat disipation abilities 100% Painting it with black paint will block heat disipation. I woudl anodize first, if that wasn't available, radiator black paint.

 

The key is to just dust the paint on. You don't need to put heavy coats on it, all your doing is dusting it to break up the black. It doesn't take much at all. Larry

 

I painted mine with a few light coats of flat black, it works great! It just starts to chip off after a few weeks, but just throw another light coat on and you are good to go.

 

Getting a tank full of stuff anodized costs about $80. I'd just do that, it's permanent, prevents oxidation, and won't affect heat dissipation.

 

If you really wanted to get fancy you could do this http://www.swaintech.com/store.asp?pid=10968.
Although the price is 125 to 225 for intercoolers, so if you are on a budget anodizing would be a better option.

 

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yep did this with paintball guns all the time you could get any color or mix of.

 

i used bbq paint on mine- spuer light coats, I'm certain the effects on efficiency are trivial... unless you SOAK your IC in paint.

Just a light dusting is all you need.

R

 

Yeah i dont think i would go with paint...Anodizing would be the rout i would go. Just didnt know which company made them black now i know. Thanks for all the replies

 

Just do a couple light coats of the bbq paint. Someone on here actually dyno'd the difference between painted and un-painted and there wasnt a difference if i remember correctlly.

The paint isnt gonna interfer with the heat dissipation, unless you soak it.

 

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theres mine..

 

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Very nice...love the sleeper look. Put in the grill and no one is the wiser

 

Just go to autozone and get some black radiator paint,,light coats,,done...its not that difficult

 

black pantyhose works fine too. i have that on mine right now

 

here's mine-

 

Flat black FTW... Just be quiet - she's sleeping.

 

I think JRC (johnnyracecar) sells them in black also. Very nice intercoolers and affordable

http://www.johnnyracecar.com

EDIT: seems like his website is down for the moment

 

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looks good greg.


could u just tape up the fins and paint the endtanks and bars with radiator paint

 

Here's mine....



Looks dull, but it is just dusty. I even painted the t-bolt clamps. It cost me $50 to anodize. Having my girl go in with a low cut top cut the price by $50 as they originally quoted me $100.

A search would also do you good there are a LOT of threads on this.......

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1422021
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1321526
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1029419
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1236045
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1166393
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=540612
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=718929
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=819885
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=796458
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1171704


And then some........