a friend of mine painted his intercooler black with high temp engine paint. do you guys think this will effect airflow?

 

no

 

Well it is impossible to affect airflow IN the intercooler since I am assuming he painted the outside of the intercooler
As long as he sprayed a light coat and did not lay on it to heavy then he should be fine
Do you have a pic?

 

it's ruined, I'll give him $20 shipped for it.

 

I also wanted to paint my intercooler black, But i heard people said that it will decrease the cooling ability of the intercooler. So is this a fact or it doesnt affect the intercooler at all?

 

It will affect the efficiency, but not enough to make any drastic changes.

At the same time, why not get some black condensor/radiator paint to increase efficiency? Try to avoid using high heat/ceramic based paints because they are meant to insulate instead of dissipating heat.

 

radiator paint


Modified by oxSLEEPERxo at 11:33 PM 10/20/2004

 

tell him to flip the intercooler around and stop trying to ruin it with the insulated paint.

 

anodize

 

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Best advice yet

 

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yea i remember in another post painting the intercooler was mentioned and someone said that there are paints that actually enhance the heat transfer effect. The same stuff they use on air conditioning units or something like that. I don't remember the thread though

 

Why not just get a black stocking?

Easy, removable, and no question if it will affect eficiency or not.

 

u will not lose HP from painting your intercooler , end of story.

I had the SAME intake air temps before and after painting it..wooptie fucken doo, people make such big deals over this.

 

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ditto, there was a thread earlier today that garret did the same test and got the same results.

Im painting mine as soon as I find out more about this radiator paint....

 

Where can you buy radiator paint at?

 

Its efficiency just went down the drain.

 

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Learn to read or if you don't like doing that data log some air temps and prove your theory.

 

so should we just use radiator paint from autozone or what

 

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LOL

 

where do we get this paint

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...wItem

 

the link for ebay is for the gloss paint. I bought the satin from eastwood direct for litle over 8 bucks each. here is the link.

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump...ODUCT