Hey guys I had some extra time @ work so I decided to coat my turbo. My car is black and my rims are black, I have my intercooler out gettin anodized black right now, so I figured that my turbo should match. I'm not really into the bling bling shiny stuff so this is what I came up with.......

Here's my car


Holset hy35 turbo off of a 2003 dodge truck



Made my own linkage to keep the int wg closed


Took the housings off


compressor and turbine housings



compressor and turbine housins bead blasted



vht header coating from autozone ~$5


prepped and sprayed housings



baked the housings in our rod oven, lol yes the rod oven.


And the end product






Okay, let the flaming begin, but remember this is the first time I have done this. I didn't wanna mess with the chra, so I left it as it. ??

 

I'm interested to see if it holds up.

 

It's rated for 2000 deg F. I assume eventually it will fade out, but I have friends that use this stuff on thier desert car headers and say it works good. I think it will be fine.

 

looks cool

 

Looks good I've also bene experimenting some coatings on various things. Let us know how it holds up.

 

good job! but if I were you, before I put that sucker on, I would take that silencer ring out !!!! im a sucker for a Loud *** turbo.... otherwise awsome job!

 

wtf

 

 

Looks nice!!!

 

is the paint made to keep heat in or keep it out?

 

looks really nice
B-series i assume??

 

Looks good.

 

cool

 

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Thanks.

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I'll keep ya posted.

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Lol, thanks. I'm not really the flashy type that's why it's all gonna be black, not chrome or all one spiffy blue color. I think I will leave the silencer ring in. Would rather surprise someone that thinks cause my car isn't flashy it ain't fast than get smoked thinking I'm a bad ***.
Humility.

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??????

Thanks for the good words Mav, Brazil and Synic.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by turbotommy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> is the paint made to keep heat in or keep it out?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Ummm, is that a trick question? Hehe, the coating is for color. But the color will (if the turbo is cooler than ambient) absorb heat, black is after all the absence of all color, it absorbs every wavelength in light spectrum.

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Yup, gsr. Lookin for 350-400 on pump. We'll c how it turns out. These turbos seem to be able to really kick some *** btw. They like the higher pr's though. Anything lower than like 10-12psi and they wont be very efficient, but after that.....

 

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With a bead blaster @ work and an oven most of the time was in prep work and baking. Prep work took like 20 mins, blasting like 10 mins, painting like 30 mins (including 20 mins dry time), baking took like 3 hours! But I think it was well worth the time.

 

Looks great!

Good job on the DIY, looks clean.

That's a monster of a turbo!

 

i did my maniofld with the same paint. as long as you prep the surface well and bake it.. it should hold up. mine has been painted for about 4 months. car made 556hp and see's a lot of abuse.. still holding up

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EJ1 wilcox &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Looks great!

Good job on the DIY, looks clean.

That's a monster of a turbo! </TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks a lot. These turbos love boost out and have nice spool times, check the map out.

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/bc/43...FRzRO

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Good news, thanks.


Modified by KeyserSoze at 9:31 AM 10/5/2005

 

I used the same paint on an o2 housing on my old eclipse and it held up no problem and btw that paint has ceramic in it meaning it'll keep heat in.

 

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Oh, I didn't read the lable for the ingrediants. Ceramic, that means its a very good insulator. So slightly cooler engine bay (I plan on coating my neukin mani as well) and more energy to spool the turbine.

 

doesn't look too bad. i just wonder how it does for performance and how long it'll hold up. lol

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by undercoverdc2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">doesn't look too bad. i just wonder how it does for performance and how long it'll hold up. lol</TD></TR></TABLE>

From my friends to these two following quotes, I think it will last fine.

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MyEvo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I used the same paint on an o2 housing on my old eclipse and it held up no problem and btw that paint has ceramic in it meaning it'll keep heat in.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

I want to spray my JRSC manifold with that paint but I don't have an oven to bake it, what should I do to prep the surface?

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I cant imagine that turbo spooling up very fast..it has a huge exhaust side. How is it on your gsr motor? When do you get full spool?

liam

 

what tires are you runing at you civic??