engine enamel on manifold

**nick_sixx** · 10-09-2008 05:01 PM

just wondering if spraying a greddy turbo manifold with engine enamel would be bad. i hate it how it goes rusty/brown/poo after like 2 weeks. so yeah, just concerned about heat issues if i sprayed it with engine enamel.

**TODA AU** · 11-09-2008 07:06 AM

It'll burn.
If you want it black or silver use a ceramic coating like HPC etc

**Aza** · 11-09-2008 08:17 AM

as said, u will need it HPC otherwise it wont loast

**Limbo** · 11-09-2008 11:05 AM

no engine enamel will work, i sprayed my turbo header with it also.
The other option is caliper paint which can also take very high temps

**nick_sixx** · 11-09-2008 12:54 PM

i might give caliper paint a whirl until i can afford to get it coated (Y)

**EGB18CT** · 11-09-2008 12:56 PM

umm isnt flame proof engine enamel rated at higher temps than caliper paint?
there flame proof vht paint rated to 1500F compared to 900F for caliper paint?

**Limbo** · 11-09-2008 01:57 PM

can't rem but i flamed them both for testing ;p

**EGB18CT** · 11-09-2008 02:12 PM

^lol that would be something i'd do.. ahhh the good old days experimenting in science and chemistry/phisics classes lol

**Limbo** · 11-09-2008 03:30 PM

lol i went to a crappy HS where the teacher had to do all the experiments cos we didn't have enough facilities. It was sad, he broke more equipment than all of us combined

**EGB18CT** · 11-09-2008 04:20 PM

lmao, hahaha

our physics teacher would go nuts, eyes popping out of his head, going red and he was scrawney too so funny,

nothing beats our chem teacher, had a hot air balloon experiment where tissue paper balloons were made, whilst heating the air with metho in a cup to simulate the firing in a real balloon, it rose to head height and just some how blew up in a fire ball, singe his eyebrows off, all red in the face, everyone even him, were pissing themselves laughing hahaha.

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