I am trying to decide which manifold coating I should go with. The choices are Jet Hot 2000, Swain, HPC Extreme Coating. The prices I was quoted are:

Jet Hot 2000 = 120
Swain = 150-175
HPC Extreme Coating = 350

Does anyone have experience with anyone of these and do these prices sound correct? Which one would you go with?

 

SwainTech is nice stuff! HPC is nice, but not as thick as Swain! Swain has the thickess coatings onthe market!

 

I have a Swain coated manifold cost me $125 shipped. I'm pretty happy with it

 

What are the benefits of coating? Faster spool time?

 

doesnt anyone ceramic coat in your area look in the industrial section of your yellow pages/nynex - should only cost like 45 if you bring them a clean part ready to coat.

 

faster spool time...improves exhaust stream velocity...also swain claims up to 50% reduction in underhood temperature...but unfortunately,

my swain coating is starting to bubble and crack after only 3 months...


[Modified by downpipe, 4:49 PM 11/16/2001]

 

I had a coating question myself: Will regular old powedercoating do any good, or even withstand the heat? I'm getting a bunch of other stuff powedercoated anyways so I wanted to throw the manifold in too for free basically.
Thanks for the info.
M

 

I'm sure there is someplace in Dallas that can put a coating on it, but I haven't heard of any that would withstand the temps of a turbo except for the ones I mentioned. But I guess it wouldn't hurt to check around. That would save me shipping costs

Anyone else have any experiences?