I am about to ship somethings off to the powder coating shop but i was told by someone that i could not powder coat the throttle body on my FD, is this correct?

I just want to verify before i ruin something or have to come up with different plan for it. Thanks for any help

-Jason

 

Do not powder coat it without removing everything off of it first, I learned the hard way, I didn't know there were small plastic bushings on the inside of the springs and the oven melted them, rendering the TB useless...

 

Alright thats what i was told. And i took a good look at it. It looks damn near impossible to dismantle and reassemble this thing. oh well PLAN B. Thanks for the info

 

That's exactly what I thought, I powder coated my uim black, so I just masked of the TB and painted it with a hi temp flat black.

 

Good thing i read this lol, cause i was thinking on having mine powder coated too.


I guess ill do that ^^^ instead

 

Where are you planning on getting your items coated? I see that you are in Charlotte. We have a local place in Denver called Calico Coatings. I've used them and they do excellent work plus you can drop it off and pick it up yourself.
http://www.calicocoatings.com/

 

as a rule whenever youre going to deal with powder coating, nothing rubber or plastic can be on the piece. in able to get a good solid coating, the whole item needs to be cleaned (normally media blasting) and pre-baked (heated up to release any oil or anything trapped in the piece) in able to get a good solid reliable powder coat.
when doing anything suspension wise, this means ball joints, bushings, plastic spacers, but this applies for anything getting powder coated
you CAN pc the throttle body, but unless youre an expert on them, where you can dis-assemble and re-assemble one blind, then just leave it alone lol

Lloyd

 

Yeah i have heard of Calico coatings. but I am using Drake Coatings in Indian Trail / Monroe area just closer to the shop I work on my car at. Driven Performance. but i heard Calico does ceramic coating as well any truth in that?

 

anyone have a diy/write up on how to take apart the TB?

 

Calico does ceramic coating and most of the rotary shops in the area use them. I use Southern Collision Center for powder coating because they are good and cheap! I live in Waxhaw, which isn't too far from Indian Trail. How was the work from Drake Coating?
http://www.southerncollisioncenter.c...ercoating.html

 

I am a little addicted to powder coating and plating! I think if you decide to go ahead, you will be very pleased, and yes all parts must be totally disassembled and cleaned prior to being powder coated. What color are you thinking?

Best
~Andrea~

 

Similar colour to my bits. Candy Apple powdercoating, rx7 red alternator, etc

 

guys I ceramic chrome many parts and was recommended not to ceramic chrome the T/B so I polished it .all the work was done by SPORTTUNER.COM they are great with communication and excellent with there work I highly recommended it. they did an awesome job with my parts. They disassembled many parts including my Throttle body and nickel plated many parts on it that included polishing as well. They also did my alternator and upgraded it to 140amp. These guys do it all. Ask for Anthony Bulger, he's the man!



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Stanc3, why are you running a TII UIM with what seems to be a NA-REW...? (judging by the water pump housing/power steering etc, if I'm wrong it could be that I'm staring at this on my phone...)

Either way, I'm curious...

 

Nice...................

 

I've powder coated a few small bits and pieces and I've always loved they way they turn out. I need to get a large crappy oven so I can start doing stuff myself.