Ceramic coating turbo

[iroc_g]

I was wondering if anybody here has there turbine housing ceramic coated. I'm thinking about having it done, but I'm trying to figure out if they do the inside as well, or if it would interfear with the blades.

Also, anybody local worth getting a quote from?

[spoolin d dub]

My turbo is ceramic coated. The outside is the only part that gets coated. Never coat the inside. Make sure the place you go does a good quality ceramic coat to get the full benefits of holding in all that heat to help spool up.

Here's a pic.


http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn290/spoolinddub/Comp%20Custom%20Turbo/IMG_0085.jpg

[Swifty1638]

mine is ceramic coated too..didn't even look if the inside was done though..i just slapped her together.

[Super Bleeder!!]

Why wouldnt you coat the inside? If the inside was coated the heat would have less of a chance of being dumped into the turbine housing metal.

All coating the outside of the housing will do is make sure the turbine housing cant radiate heat into the engine bay, because most of the heat will be trapped inside the material.

imho, from a logical standpoint if you are going to coat it at all coat the inside.

input from others welcome.

[blackrosenova400]

Its best to leave anything out of the intake tract. EOS.

Swifty, where was yours done?

[spoolin d dub]

You don't want to coat the inside of the turbine housing to prevent damage to the wheel. At first I wanted the inside coated also but Comp Turbo advised me not to do it.

[Kracka]

Contact MAP; they have a local guy who does really good porting/coating work. You'll want both the inside and outside coated.

[niterydr]

Contact MAP; they have a local guy who does really good porting/coating work. You'll want both the inside and outside coated.

Yeah that is duder (Bob).

Bob did all the coating of my setup and anything we had done for a customer at LSE as well, good guy and does great work.

+1 for having the outside of the turbo coated only. I was concered about keeping the engine bay temps down and did not want to have coating find itself in my turbine wheel.

[turbotalon1g]

I had the outside of mine done. I don't remember if i got the inside done. I want to say that I didn't.

But I can say that I agree a little with super, he makes a lot of sense and is agreement with what I have been reading up on about metals.

How would the coating get on the wheel?

oh yeah +1 for bob
He is working out of MAP now.

[Halon]

Its best to leave anything out of the intake tract. EOS.

Swifty, where was yours done?


Turbine Housing = exhaust not intake

As Floppy said, if all you coat is the outside, you are trapping all that heat in the metal, and not leaving it a nice escape route do to the ceramic coating on it. Coating it inside as well, will give you a barrier helping to prevent some of that heat from ever even entering the metal. Go read up on a lot of the coating forums, and you'll see a majority of them are going to recommend coating both inside and outside.

I also had mine done by Bob at Form and Function. As others have said, he works out of MAP's shop now which is nice and convenient. I had both my manifold, and my turbine housing coated with his Black TurboX coating, inside and out. I definately recommend him.

If you do a search on here for "Ceramic Coating", you'll probably run into the thread I started about a year ago on it. You'll see my pictures in there.