do they sand it down like they polishing it, or just coat it with what ever they do?..

 

normally, they clean the part and coat it. you need to polish it yourself or have someone polish it if you want that done. its a separate step.

 

so i would have to get it polished first then send it out huh....... alright then ill have to buy a polished one.

 

Think the coating still comes out smooth usally. Guess it depends on the coating and who does it.

 

Ceramic coated cast parts don't come out that smooth, more like an orange peel finish.

 

What i meant was not textured like the manifolds come and if you were just to paint them.

 

What part are you looking to have coated?

I have parts that are Cerama-Chrome and some that are standard high temp ceramic coating:

http://mahjik.homestead.com/files/FD...6/DSCF0417.jpg
http://mahjik.homestead.com/files/FD...0/DSCF0061.jpg

As you can see:

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the Cerma-Chrome isn't exactly smooth.

 

They coat the part with a thin layer of ceramic.....it will show whatever texture or imperfections are already there. Something like the UIM will look as if it has orange peel because it had orange peel before the coating was applied. If you want it perfectly smooth it would need to be polished first.

 

so its better off getting a polished uim and then sending it in to get coated huh?

 

My coater can give the UIM a few passes to smooth it down a bit before coating, on most of the other pieces it's not worth it IMO.

 

With any powder coating and ceramic coating the end result is determined by the texture of the part it is being applied too. Usually the parts are sand/bead blasted then coated, However, they do make textured powder coat but I am unsure about textured ceramic coating as I have not looked into it.

If you want the smooth look you do not need to fully polish it, just enough to create a smooth surface, probably go up to about a 400-800 grit and you would get the smooth texture you are after.

 

to bad i wouldnt know what im doing, and would be to afraid to mess it up.

 

how much does your coating person charge?. and what you mean by other pieces, your saying like the lim and such correct?

 

Go to Hot Shotz in Davie off of 595 and NW 70th ave. Greg is the owner and has done several things for me. He is a good guy but it takes about a week to get ur stuff back..

L8R

 

ill have to look into it