O.K I've seen pic's on the org. of people's superchargers painted and I was wondering what paint works best?And doe's it effect the performance of the charger?
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Wouldn't that be bad as far as heat soak goes? If anything, get it polished.
it comes powdercoated.... but i would either leave it or polish it....polishing would let more heat out... not that you would notice most likly... but a different colour poweder coat would look nice
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Someone here got his polished and said it made a BIG difference in the heat dissapation. If I remember correctly, he can put his hand on it even after a run down the track. I can picture his green car and his engine bay but can't come up with the name.
No, I wouldn't paint it either. As Josh said, it's already powder coated so you'd just be adding another insulating layer to keep the heat in.
Depenmds on if you are delaing with a 2.4 SC or an eco SC. My eco charger doesn't have a coating on it. However, I think that as good as powdercoating would look it would also need to be disassembled to get coated correctly (since this is what my powdercoat guy said). Heat soak wouldn't be any worse, though polishing would look cool, will also take way lots of time.
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Bobby(Blown&Pullied) wrote:Weasel- That green car you speak of belongs to Gary(The older one)....
heh. Thanks!! I kept thinking "John"... and not Lenko or Piparo...
Is it John that has the amazing convertible green Sunfire?
I'm retarded when it comes to names. Even with people I've known for years.
Yep thats him,....John with the amazing green sunfire convertible lol
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Can anyone get ahold of John and refer him to this thread. I would like to hear directly from him about the cost and cooling effect of getting it polished. Thanks
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Yeah I'm also very interest in learning about polishing it. I have all the time in the world right now to polish it or have it polished,because it's not even on my car yet and I'm still gathering part's to complete the kit all I have is the SuperCharger and belt. I don't have the bracket's,hose's,MAP sensor etc.
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Here is the pic of the polished sc from a recent jbo post.
Thats sweet!!!!!!!!!
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Hey guy's , Sorry, I just noticed this thread.
I took the charger all the way apart and had it chem dipped to remove the powdercoating. I never suggest sandblasting on any aluminum that is going to be polished. Sandblasting leaves a rougher surface than you started with which means more sanding to get to the point where you can start polishing.
As far as any extra cooling , you can expect about 20-30 degrees cooler intake temps because bare aluminum will cool/dissipate heat faster.
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Thanks Gary!
And... I'd like to point out that Gary's screen name is John317... so that totally explains my idiocy with the names in my previous posts.
John thats awesome looking!!! do you have tips or Instruction's on how you did this? and what kind of shop can chemical dip the charger?and is it hard to disassemble the charger and if I'm going to have it a part anyway is there a rebuild kit for the M45? or any upgrades?
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john can you help?
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Firepower wrote:john can you help?
I'm pretty sure his name is Gary.
That's pretty sweet how you can drop intake temps that much by polishing the housing!
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Sorry my bad
,Gary are you watching this thread? if u are can you tell us how you polished your charger?
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Please give us your insight. I tried contacting you through the email listed in your profile, and no reply.
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Sorry guy's , I've been extremely busy. I took mine apart and took it a local shop
HERE that does some other finishing for me. They charged me $80 to do it. BUT that's what they charged me. They would probably charge more to someone just contacting them,I don't know.
As far as taking it apart and reassembling it,it's not that hard. Just depends on your skill level.
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thanks Gary I'm gonna start looking in my area for a shop to polish it.
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^^ Do it yourself. It will take some serious amounts of time, but you can always say "I did it"...
And I mean a serious amount of time.......
Gary Did you just have them dip it or did they polish it to?
Marchi 1 Are you using just your bare hands and sandpaper or how are you going about it?
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