Just wanted to get everyone’s opinion on our coated Lovefab SST Manifold, Turbo Housing and Down-pipe Setup. This is going in a 2000 Turbo Integra Type R and the coating withstands up to 2000 degrees.

 

 

Maybe a dumb question but is it possible to do a clear heat coating? Looks great BTW

 

There is not currently a coating avalible for a Thermal Barrier that is clear, unfortunantly. There are some variations with color, but the black turbo coating that we use has the highest temperature handling that we have found in the industry.

 

One more pic from another angle

 

looks great...now to put it to the test.

 

Damn looks real good, how much do you chrage for the coating?

 

Love the color of the head .... great for being able to see oil leaks! </sarcasm>

 

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those coatings are great , I had mine ceramic coated also, black 2000F .... the only problem is that when installing it or working on the car you have to be careful not to scratch the ceramic off ... because you can easily do so...

 

how much does it cost?
-turbo
-downpipe
-manifold?

can you do that to cast manifold?
what are the benifits?
how does it affect power?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Charlie Moua &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how much does it cost?
-turbo
-downpipe
-manifold?

can you do that to cast manifold?
what are the benifits?
how does it affect power?</TD></TR></TABLE>

you can coat a cast manifold, benifits are very slight underhood temp drops and more thermal energy for your turbo....it should increase power a little- don't look for huge gains.
Other benefits are to prevent rust on mild steel exhausts or tubing and to prevent rust on the turbine housing.

I had my turbine housing done for 80 dollars and my lovefab sidewinder done for 100 bucks @ hyperkote (this is not typical , performance coatings quoted me 140, and hpc and jet hot both quoted me 180)....

you can go to Akari Motorsports to get this done(they look like they do good work), or South fLORIDA pERformance or here is a list of other locations...

http://www.performancecoatings.com/

http://www.hpcoatings.com/

http://www.jet-hot.com/

http://www.hyperkote.com/

 

do they coat the inside and outside?

 

yes all places will coat both and also bead blast beforehand when coating a downpipe or exhaust with aluminized ceramic coating .... when it comes to the turbine housing you can specify if you want it coating inside and out depending on how picky you are about the a/r ... its a extremely thin layer which really won't throw anything off , but some people are picky...

 

This coating..

would it be benifical for the charge piping as well?
(basically to better retain the cool charged air from the fmic?

 

I wish my set up looked like that one...... Sick man, just sick!

 

upper charge piping a little theoretically.... not enough to make it worthwile because of the limited amount of surface area in the upper charge pipe and the poor thermal conduction properties of mild steel charge piping ....

 

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come again....?

 

not worth it to coat the upper charge piping because of the following reasons

1) very limited surface area inside the pipe means little heat transfer
2) mild steel or ss piping is a poor conductor or energy unlike aluminum
3) when you are traveling above 40 mph the heat in your engine bay will be close to ambiant


it wont make a noticeable difference

 

We recently coated a Gruppe-S turbo manifold and downpipe along with a S-13 turbo housing. After 20 min of driving around town with mild boosting we were able to actually hold onto the turbo manifold, but could barley put our hands on the valve cover because it was too hot.

 

Looks great James! We are redoing the site, you guys will be put in the links section

 

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no fucken way...
damn thats badd ***!

 

looks good

 

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with your hand.....?!?!?!?! **** thats good, my mani bare metal will take your skin off instantly if you touch.

 

I heard that this is not beneficial to your valves..The pipe will retain too much heat inside(i guess thats the point of coating it) that when u turn off the car all that heat tends to take the Head as its new home, eventually damaging the valves..Thats why you couldnt barelly touch the Valve cover..Is this true?

Atleast i hear this about Header/Exhaust wraps...is it the same with coatings?