[s-cars] Ceramic coating - EM / Turbo

[Elijahallen92 at aol.com]

I had an RS2 EM that was ceramic coated on the inside and out for 5 years  on 
my heavily modded URS4. I sold it recently and it was still in almost perfect 
 condition with only one very small crack at the collector. I had another RS2 
EM  that was on another engine I have and it was 1 year old and had five 
small  cracks around the collector and was on a stock engine. This tells me that  
ceramic coating is good. I only ceramic coated the outside of the new tube  
header but plan to do the inside as well because if anything I think the inside  
is more important than the outside for the sake of the manifold itself. As 
for  if you will get HP gains from ceramic coating, who knows, but it can't hurt 
if  you have the extra $$.

Elijah
 
 
In a message dated 5/13/2005 2:56:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
james.murray at ericsson.com writes:

Davie  and others... now I'm dazed and confused... so it's not worth it to 
coat the  RS2 EM?  what about the Down Pipe? or Turbo? 

Is it because these  are not high enough HP applications, or because the RS2 
EM is so well built  that coating will add little value... I always thought 
that ceramic coating  was not only a good insurance policy but improved HP 
(contains the heat), but  I value yours and the lists opinions... so I'd like to 
understand better the  HP/$... I don't understand why it's only cosmetic?

There seems to be  various coating options too, such as  
http://www.jet-hot.com/pages/newheaders.html or  http://www.swaintech.com/header.html

On the same topic, what about just  using thermal wrap stuff? ala: 
http://www.heatshieldproducts.com/ any  drawbacks to this? 

Cheers, /Jamu.

P.S. Yes, the POR-15 and  POR-20 stuff rocks!


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Subject: Re: [s-cars] Ceramic coating - EM /  Turbo


If the EM you're refering to is an RS2 EM, then I wouldn't  bother with the  
expense of coating either.  I tend to assess  upgrades on a hp/$  basis.  In 
that light, I've never seen any  hard data that would support  such 
measures...  
IMHO.
Dave
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