Manifolds Powder coating vs. Painting?

[Nunyas]

I thought he was originally asking about painting the SU "INTAKE" manifold and also the exhaust???

IMO painting the intake is silly, as they will clean up extremely well and look like new. As for the exhaust, Eastwood has a cast coating that works very well at a price well below powder coating. Ceramic coating is extremely expensive compared to other methods and to me would be a waste on a "B" engine. But, to each his own.

well, I can understand the confusion.(?) However, if you saw his other post about "Skunk Works" you ought to be able to deduce that he's referring to headers and possibly a custom intake manifold.

 

[Bret]

I thought he was originally asking about painting the SU "INTAKE" manifold and also the exhaust???

IMO painting the intake is silly, as they will clean up extremely well and look like new. As for the exhaust, Eastwood has a cast coating that works very well at a price well below powder coating. Ceramic coating is extremely expensive compared to other methods and to me would be a waste on a "B" engine. But, to each his own.

well, I can understand the confusion.(?) However, if you saw his other post about "Skunk Works" you ought to be able to deduce that he's referring to headers and possibly a custom intake manifold.

Exactly. The custom intake is made out of steel and I want it to last so I’m considering Jet hot coating to make sure I protect my investment whereas the header it going to have a catalytic converter attached to it – so I think I’ll leave that alone for now.

Funny thing is the quote I got was about $275 for their “Sterling finish” to both the intake ($110) & header ($165) plus another $35 or so for “return” shipping and whatever it costs me to ship it to them. Personally the Sterling finish is a bit too flashy for what I want to do and they want even more ($$) for the black finishes.

While I think about it - I’ll look into power coating locally.

 

[PAUL161]

I thought he was originally asking about painting the SU "INTAKE" manifold and also the exhaust???

IMO painting the intake is silly, as they will clean up extremely well and look like new. As for the exhaust, Eastwood has a cast coating that works very well at a price well below powder coating. Ceramic coating is extremely expensive compared to other methods and to me would be a waste on a "B" engine. But, to each his own.

well, I can understand the confusion.(?) However, if you saw his other post about "Skunk Works" you ought to be able to deduce that he's referring to headers and possibly a custom intake manifold.

OK, I wasn't aware we were working off of two seperate posts.

I stand corrected.

 

[Bret]

Actually we weren't. When I first pinned this thread - I hadn't planned on talking about the custom intake just yet.

 

[Nunyas]

ah... I assumed you were, because I saw the other thread first...

dang it... I assumed and we all know what happens when we do that!