colored intercooler tubes

[brian89]

I see you guys with different colored intercooler tubes, just wonder how or where you get this done? Are they painted, wrapped, shrink wrap, dipped or what?

 

[Hotrodtractor]

Mostly painted, some powedercoated.

I paint mine using hammer tone paint because it hides imperfections.

 

[6.0dirtworker]

I painted with imron and it's been holding up great

 

[TheSmokinStroke2002]

Mostly painted, some powedercoated.

I paint mine using hammer tone paint because it hides imperfections.

I like how that looks.

 

[6.0 p-stroke]

I painted with imron and it's been holding up great

Damn that looks sick :drool:

 

[03_PSD]

makes me want to redo mine, looks great guys!

 

[brian89]

Damn thats sick, i did the foil delete and there is still a bunch of fuzzy sticky insulation on the tube, how do i get that off? Scrub harder im guessing?

 

[SDstroker]

Little primer little paint.

 

[woodduck97]

I painted mine with regular old paint. Also a buddy did his with paint.

 

[K_Hood]

Man all those look great!

 

[6.0dirtworker]

Damn that looks sick :drool:

Thanks!

 

[03international]

mine have rust and other crap stuck to them. should i wire wheel it, prime it then paint it? what kind of paint? can it be bought at a local parts store?

 

[woodduck97]

Just regular old spray paint.

 

[O2ShootTheJ]

do you guys paint the ends of the pipes? I remember a guy on here complaining about after he painted his he kept blowing his boots off

 

[Hotrodtractor]

do you guys paint the ends of the pipes? I remember a guy on here complaining about after he painted his he kept blowing his boots off

I paint the entire pipe - I also don't leave the end of the pipe smooth - I have been welding a nice smooth ridge all the way around the end of the pipe that mimics a rolled bead that the boot has to go over to be clamped onto the pipe.

 

[J White]

Very nice gotta give it a try

 

[Charles]

One vote for natural...

 

[Lowdown89]

i took mine off and almost kinda polished with a belt sander that uses 3m cloth for like deburing industrial parts and it gave it a real clean look of course i still have the foil on the other side so i gotta get that off... im not sure if most of us are making enough power for it to be a concern but i have seen some people say that painting the pipes or having them powdercoated actually keeps the heat in and makes it harder for the intercooler to do its job. im not sure if theres anyway of actually telling if there is any performance loss but it was just some reading i was doing when looking at having my pipes ceramic coated but my thing was that wouldnt the heat under the hood cancel out any cooling effect you may gain from leaving the pipes bare?

 

[Mdub707]

i took mine off and almost kinda polished with a belt sander that uses 3m cloth for like deburing industrial parts and it gave it a real clean look of course i still have the foil on the other side so i gotta get that off... im not sure if most of us are making enough power for it to be a concern but i have seen some people say that painting the pipes or having them powdercoated actually keeps the heat in and makes it harder for the intercooler to do its job. im not sure if theres anyway of actually telling if there is any performance loss but it was just some reading i was doing when looking at having my pipes ceramic coated but my thing was that wouldnt the heat under the hood cancel out any cooling effect you may gain from leaving the pipes bare?

Black paint will pull the heat out of the tube. Ask some air-cooled VW guys sometime about colored engine parts. I've first-hand seen the difference between chrome engine tins and black engine tins, it's amazing honestly. I know some old school drag racers would paint a bunch of parts flat black to pull heat and then paint intake manifolds and such white.

 

[El chupacabra]

Once it starts warming up outside I'm gonna pull mine and mirror polish them bad boys.

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