Paint on turbos?

[Ben Wilson]

my 4G54 (2.6L Astron) out of my old Scorpion, headers removed, prepared and painted up in the manner that Ben has suggested above (was a hot day also, headers were hot when final sprayed), and after just 10 minutes going for a run in the car, I pop the bonnet to find all the good work and my bright red VHT (1500*) scalded and turned a frosty white colour instead. thus why I don't trust VHT anymore.

The headers on my mr2 are still shiny silver 3 years after I painted them..

Perhaps the red is no good?

[The Real Roadrunner]

no, but i have underbonnet looking abilities, called looking while the bonnets up.

i dont stop, open my door, leisurely stroll around to the front of the bonnet, forget i havent opened it from the cabin yet, stroll back around, pop it, then repeat

i wouldnt expect the 5 or so seconds it takes for me to get out and pop the bonnet after a hard run would be enough to lose enough temp to drop down from a red-hot temperature?

Elmo.

drive along the freeway hold it wot for 30secs with your foot on the brake then pull over imediatly, trust me your turbo will be glowing and theres a fair chance your brakes will be too.
cheers
linden

ps dyno is probably a safer place to do it just do a long pull.

[abently]

drive along the freeway hold it wot for 30secs with your foot on the brake then pull over imediatly, trust me your turbo will be glowing and theres a fair chance your brakes will be too.
cheers
linden

ps dyno is probably a safer place to do it just do a long pull.

Hahah, Brake Boosting FTW.

[fixeruperer]

i got my turbo rear housing and manifold done in ceramic coating with the white on the inside and black on the outside from Competetion Coatings in kelmscott and it works pretty well hey and i get that bastard stinking hot now its not realy black anymore its like dark brown in places but that becuase ive taken that manifold and turbo off so many times and your ment to wash it before you start it and i never did so when it gets hot its burns were you have been touching.
that silver shit does look pretty but i think the black and white stuff works better.

[CrUZida]

If that paint can't do it, I doubt any paint could.
http://www.ppc.au.com/

[Wildsupra]

If that paint can't do it, I doubt any paint could.
http://www.ppc.au.com/

ah huh i knew i had seen something somewhere.

good ol por 15 products, you know they are good cos if you even sniff that shit you'll never need condoms again!!!! hello sterileness!!

cheers peewee

[Andrew162]

^^ sterility even.

The headers on my mr2 are still shiny silver 3 years after I painted them..

Perhaps the red is no good?

meh.. maybe it's just me but if teh red don't work, no colour would. then again I know others who have done the same thing with their headers, painted them up red but not done the same preparation, and it's just ended up burning right off, so who knows.

[IN 05 NT]

PACEMAKER EXHAUST PAINT!!!! FTMFW!.....lasts for ages,...havent seen the stuff burn off.....

most pacemaker extractors are painted blue, using the pacemaker blue paint,...

the same stuff i painted the R33 calipers on the cressy.... this is the stuff here....



blake

[Ben Wilson]

the same stuff i painted the R33 calipers on the cressy.... this is the stuff here....

How does it stand up to brake cleaner spray? It stripped the VHT straight off a set of calipers I painted a while ago...

[IN 05 NT]

havent had the pleasure of using brake cleaner on them yet

but have hit them with the high pressure hose (gerni) and hasnt taken any pain off yet,

blake

[mrshin]

I've seen a few sets of pacemakers where the blue is looking a bit sad after a while - the pipes don't go rusty, but they lose their blue appearance.