.............now the rest of my engine bay looks like poop Here are a few pics I took of my uim, lim, exhaust manifold, and turbine housing all ceramic coated by performance coating specialists. Thanks for the advice on where to take the parts brian, everything looks great.

 

Nice....I only hit the lower manifold on mine and used a heat blanket on the housing.So we gonna run together at NPR a represent?

 

sure sounds good to me Of course this project seems like it's never going to end, lol. I figure another 6 months and it will be done. I still have to fab up the downpipe and connect everything then tear it all down get the motor dowled and lapped and other little internal mods here and there then close it all back up and then tuned..............Grrrrrrrr

 

Where did you guys send your parts to get coated? I'd like to hit up my lower intake manifold.

 

suweet! makes me wanna take my manifolds in and have that done looks great! now just get that damn thing fired up!

 

thanks guys, I know one day it will be done but damn this always happens. Takes forever to finnish my projects cause I own a business etc... I took it to a guy brian from bdc recomended. he was priced very good compared to some of the others and he seemed like he really knows what he is doing. Only down side was the time it took him to do all the pieces but of course i didn't want to rush the cleaning and prep work. The place is performance coating specialists and the number is....

edit: not sure if brian wants me giving out the number or what. If he doesn't mind then I will post it up. Just don't want to step on anyones toes

 

Wouldn't you want the inside of the manifold coated with the high heat coating? I was of the impression that is important to keep some heat out of the metal,actually more important then the outside.

 

the big reason behind ceramic coating your differant components is to keep the heat from radiating out(exhaust manifold) or in(intake manifold). I'm sure you could coat the inside if you wanted to but I'm sure doing the outside is good enough. Maybe someone can elaborate.

 

I guess the quick and dirty answer would be that it doesn't matter which side you coat. The reason you would put a coating on the UIM and LIM along with other engine parts such as the downpipe is to keep engine bay temps low which in turn will help keep charge temp low. It also helps prevent the engine from overheating. Also, coating the insides would be rather difficult to maintain a smooth surface. In turbulent flow surface roughness causes a pressure drop which means you're turbo(s) have to work harder to achieve the same effective pressure.

 

when i got my DP coated, it was coated inside and out...

when you first turn on the car with those parts on it will smoke like crazy due to the coating baking onto the parts, i think that makes the coating stick to the metal better too, so be careful handling the parts so you won't scratch off the coating

 

yeah will do. cost me enough that i'm paranoid just setting them down too hard

 

parts installed. Close to being done with the mockup, just gotta fab a downpipe. Then I gotta tear everything down and fix a few issues with the internals as well as beef some stuff up and powder coat the front part of the motor and the throttle body inlet so that it matches the other shiney parts

 

looks really good man. What are you going to be using for an EMS?

 

I've got a microtech lt8 in there right now. Would like to go haltech but will probably stick with this.