Anodizing and Powdercoating

[chrisbond69]

after watching the series of american chopper on dvd when out in iraq i have all manner of silly ideas for powdercoating and anodizing things on my car but can you tell me does anyone know

- can you anodize/powdercoat the inlet manifold

any help would be appriciated

 

[JKing]

yep powder coating is fine, not sure on anodizing as I thought the part had to be dipped into the liquid to do this??

 

[chrisbond69]

i learn about it in trade training finnish is brilliant for powdercoating just didnt know if it could bedone on aluminium becuase its statically charged, anodizing is dipped yeah, im quite fortunate an oncle has ability to do powdercoating so cheapo

something like inlet manifold etc

 

[JKing]

I've seen a few powder coated manifolds and rocker covers for sale so know it can be done. The guy on here with the euro yellow ibiza has a black powder coated one I'm sure

 

[chrisbond69]

yeah just found the damn thing on another site looks gorgeous im not one for chrome etc i like subtle so that only people in the know will recognise it. but someone else had a chrome one looked mental too just to much work to keep clean and must admit with my job it aint to practical

 

[jetsetjimbo]

I've been wondering this too. I'm very interested in trying to get my inlet manifold powder coated but have no idea as to where to start with finding the people to do it...

 

[chrisbond69]

its a simple process just depends if u want a super smooth finish etc or the rippled effect u have on the manifold now.

 

[Empi5]

I have a customer in the Cheshire Area who does Powder Coating, Im sure they would welcome the business, so if your interested i will pass on their details to you.

Jimbo, wait to see what my inlet manifold and cover looks like Polished before you make up your mind

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86766

 

[Forbez]

www.yell.co.uk
And search for powder coaters!

 

[m0rk]

You don't want to anodise cast items really, as the surface rarely comes up nicely.

Machined stuff looks nice though....

 

[chrisbond69]

so mork do if i get my next door neighbour to polish the grainyness out do u reckon itll look smooth enough

 

[jetsetjimbo]

I have a customer in the Cheshire Area who does Powder Coating, Im sure they would welcome the business, so if your interested i will pass on their details to you.

Jimbo, wait to see what my inlet manifold and cover looks like Polished before you make up your mind

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86766

Ummm

That's nice! I though you were using one of Feels charge pipes? Or have you just has your existing mainfold polised like this?

 

[Forbez]

That looks awesome!

 

[Empi5]

Ummm

That's nice! I though you were using one of Feels charge pipes? Or have you just has your existing mainfold polised like this?

No, ive bought this manifold and cover, but not bought the Charge Pipe, which means i shall shortly be selling my Mani and Cover for anyone else that wants to do the same.

 

[jetsetjimbo]

No, ive bought this manifold and cover, but not bought the Charge Pipe, which means i shall shortly be selling my Mani and Cover for anyone else that wants to do the same.

Let me know when you do decide to sell and what you want for it if you haven't already go anyone lined up.

 

[Dan20vt]

Try this site here, ive never used them but apparently there very cheap and provide excellent service and can do most things to any component or part


http://www.liquidmetalrefinement.co.uk/index.php

 

[Dan20vt]

as per link above i think they would poss do a good group buy if there was something we all wanted...

 

[MarkE]

If you go for powdercoating, make sure you ask them what pretreatment they're using - if they don't properly treat the surface to clean it then the powder will start to flake off when knocked or chipped, and a number of places don't pretreat.

Also bear in mind that powdercoating (unless it's a heavily textured or hammerite-type finish) is usually less than 50 microns thick and it's a single-coat process, unlike wet painting, so it won't necessarily cover any marks or textured surface on the metal. If you want a mirror-perfect finish it'll still need flatting and polishing after coating, like wet paint would, and most powdercoaters probably won't offer this service.

 

[F2 Stu]

At work, we've got 4 different powder coating firms that we use and they're all ****.

like MarkE says some firms dont prep it like they should and the quality is non exsistant - breath on it and it flakes off......

 

[chrisbond69]

theres a company i used for my motorcross frames in stroud called mikris they double coated it, and was a very good and tough also shiney so id go back to them for mine if i were to get it done